Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Jesse Ryder?
this statue would be in Courtenay Place, surely?
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Could someone send Bob Parker (the incumbent & encumbering Chch mayor) and Tony Marryatt (the overpaid Chch City CEO*) the application forms, please...
*oh by the way Tony, Dave Henderson has only bought one of those properties back ~ what are you doing with the rest?
or are the citizens of Chch just holding them for Dave? - ain't we nice...Henderson said yesterday he had no "firm plans" to buy back the other properties, but he previously said he would exercise that right.
The next available property is Sydenham Square in Colombo St, which will be offered back to him in December this year.
The southern portion of the old Para Rubber site will become available in December next year, the Penny Cycles site in January 2012 and the Welles St site in the central city in July 2014. -
Haven't you been down to Venice , it's all Hollywood down there, then a mere 27km stroll up the road to Sunset Boulevard followed by a small trot up through Laurel Canyon, more Hollywood there than you could shake a stick at. Mr Pedantic.
I didn't think any ped antics were allowed...
isn't it unamerican to walk in California?
But I do take your point about cultural high tide lines - serfs up! -
I'll go and watch a French film that includes a 15 minute sequence of a guy cycling up a hill, with nothing on the soundtrack except his tortured breathing.
my choice would be Tarkovsky, that drive into the city at the start of Solaris is mesmeric... as are many of the transcendent scenes later that may (or may not) be on the planet and Stalker, of course...
will put you firmly in the Zone! -
Hello? My page shows the full name and location of posters??? Is it supposed to do that?
Don't worry I believe Bleheim is off planet...
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"One hump or two"
in the wise words of the Tuareg tribesmen
(aka the Blue men)
"Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel"
not to be confused with the Australians':
(aka Bluey)
"Tie me kangaroo down sport..."
or
"If it humps ride it, if it doesn't hump it..." -
Bombs in Christchurch was part of the turf war for bars & brothels during the 1980s.
and don't forget the suspicious fire that destroyed Moby Dicks formerly the fabulous Majestic Theatre
on the corner of Lichfield & Manchester sts -
Yes we find it amusing that Wellington mocks our waterfront compared to it's, but hey it's your city that thinks it appropriate to copy Hollywood. ;)
OMG ! Hollywood has a waterfront!
Did I miss the big earthquake?
What happened to Santa Monica,
Culver city, Bel Air & Beverly Hills?
;- )Quote from the press release of the loftily self-titled "New Zealand Council For Infrastructure Development" (membership $9,000 per annum, big business only need apply):
"“Auckland wouldn't be in this current mess if politicians had excised greater commitment to get results when they were running the services from council departments. It hasn't worked, and it is time for a new approach and fresh start.”
Do ya think they really mean excised?
or exercised?
To tax or to cut out - must be ACT people -
so either a Freudian slip or a credo for life! -
and there was me expecting this guy
by the same Furshlinger Gang of Idiots
- ta Joe -
1980s Archie comics are as good as Maus.
funny you should say that, here's an excerpt from an interview with Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly about their Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics:
AS: I'm sure we'll get heat from a fan of one kind of comic or another for our choices.
The one example that was interesting to me was Archie. We thought there should be an Archie story in it, but then we thought, what are we aiming at? It was really for that core moment of childhood. Archie was useful, because it was the one comic kids are likely to have seen at the supermarket. Going from that to saying, “Well, maybe these are the comics you get interested in when your first pubic hair is about to sprout, because that's when you get interested in the whole notion of dating and other stuff.” And maybe we should veer backward towards Little Archie. And then it's, what story is not so treacly or conventionally clichéd that it would be worth showing? My appreciation isn't as developed as some of the others on that Treasury Board. It was a lot of back and forth before we ended up with the story we used, which turned out to be a misattributed story.Who was it misattributed to?
AS: To Bob Bolling, because he was the artist associated with Little Archie. But that particular story didn't have a signature, and it turns out it's by Dexter Taylor.
sounds like fun...
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