Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Killing Volume, in reply to Simon Grigg,
That said, I haven't bought a magazine for a year or more.
Magazines. I love them. Sight & Sound, Atlantic, Onfilm, The Word, North & South. et al There is something about a shiny magazine which iPad cannot muster. Don't get much time to read books, other than for reviewing.
A RNZ journalist friend has been passing on copies of The Walkley Magazine (Aussie journos monthly) which is rather good. Wish we had a NZ equivalent. -
One of the best investigations of these matters is Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering (2005) Beyond A Joke: The Limits of Humour,
Generally, I support to right to cause offense, and to be offended (which might include all those cracks those clowns on 7 Days make about Hamilton)
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Capture: A Foray into Portraiture, in reply to JacksonP,
It is my beloved Josephine who takes the photos--she has such a great eye. Aotea Harbour is one of my favourite places in the world; a giant sand estuary which empties at low tide, overlooked by enormous sand dunes. Just a cluster of old-style seaside houses and no shops (but Kawhia is only 15 minutes away).
Just back from another great Chiefs game--8 wins in a row, this time over the Hurricanes,
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A couple of pics from last weekend at Aotea Harbour I would like to share.
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Hard News: It's Choice, bro, in reply to Russell Brown,
For some inexplicable reason Bradbury is currently slagging you off on FB (apparently you need 'to apologise' for the Hobbit debacle). I have told him to pull his head in.
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Great stuff, David. Does the front door have to be facing in a particular direction (toward the mountains), to ensure feng shui is maintained (now, that is a load of horse poop)?
Just as well you don't have to put the milk bottles out tonight.
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Field Theory: Talkin' Softball, in reply to Peter Darlington,
I agree that American sports are hard to stomach, most particularly football/gridiron which is primarily bad theatre, The exceptions are ice hockey and baseball, which has a pace and structure akin to cricket. When I was doing my PhD in Ohio in the 1980s, I got together with an assorted bunch of Indian and Pakistani grad students, to set up cricket matches, to the bewilderment of the locals (even though cricket has a long history in some parts of the US, such as North Carolina.
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Pretty much the same reasons I like going to games at Waikato Stadium. All the better for the excellent rugby the Chiefs are paying this season.
