Posts by Andrew Paul Wood
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It's a particularly reductive view of 'Pakeha' culture. I identify as Pakeha, I think we have a culture that is distinct (admittedly largely due to Maori and geographical influences), but I wish more was done constructively to nail it down and study it.
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Agrred. Playing Jenga with GST isn't going to help anything except make filing tax returns considerably more complicated.
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Here's a really radical notion: How about more people follow Keith's example, and assume we peasants can actually be trusted to think (and feel) for ourselves, without being manipulated by the statistical equivalent of Judy Bailey's tear ducts?
Sorry, still laughing. You are hardly one of the peasants Craig. There is a large group out there who are motivated entirely by knee-jerk reactions and immediate gratification who would quite happily tolerate some pretty horrible things happening to other people in return for a flat screen and Sky who probably need a bit of encouragement.
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Protocol dictates that it is bad manners for a PhD to refer to themselves as Dr, particularly on planes or in phone books because it may be confusing in a medical emergancy.
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Just briefly, I'd like to consider the different tack taken in Autonomous Inner Mongolia. Rather than try to Han-norm the place, the Chinese seem to have deliberately played to the Mongolian identity, paying for the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan
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As an occasonal international culture journo, I quite concur. As Sir Bob Jones once said, the best way to cope with long haul international travel is to turn left upon entering the plane.
And the hotels - the first time I had a luxury suite I had to ring my mother and have a little cry. The bathroom was bigger than my flat, with a telephone and TV. I took photos. -
Oh God I miss Vesuvio's - the cigar smoke, the Tony de Lautour paintings, a shot of absinthe...
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I rather like that the Bicycle Thief is dark - I hate having people stare at me and whomever I'm with while I eat.
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This reminds me of our own Philip Clairmont and his attempts to galvanize his LSD experience's
Indeed. Funny how Clairmont went off the radar the last 20 years as far as establishment art circles are concerned. I still think he was one of our best painters - I've got a copy of an old interview he did where he explained his process and he was alot more rational & orderly in his painting process than what one might think.
I think that NZ is still a rather repressive country, that is uncomfortable with overt expression, experimentation etc - looked like it was changing for the better pre the New Right, but seems to have retreated since.
Oh, crap.
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Is in yr country, doing our domestic politics. It is interesting to see how China's antagonisms with unwilling bits of itself gets played out on the world stage, because they can't at home. Taiwan and PRC chucking money around in the Pacific Islands for example, the suprising diaspora of Tibetans around the world and the counterpointing patriotic nationalists abroad. Its a little like the time I was trapped in my flat for a good half hour because my skanky neigbour was having intimate relations against my front door. It makes me feel a little uncomfortable.