Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Interesting conversation, as befits Public Address. Just reading Andrew Dubber's latest blog and he makes mention that PA is ten years old this week. Is that so?
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Double yikes! 20,000 views has just whipped by, in the space of a week.
A lovely autumnal day, raking leaves, stacking firewood and visiting folk with new babies (not necessarily in that order).
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Accessing this thread via iPad, something is certainly is lost in translation. Sort of "Insert song here"--which could be anything--in many offerings.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Difficult to identify until the leaves open but it resembles a weeping cherry, or standard wisteria, or robinia.
Oh, wisteria. This is what ours looks like when it is in full bloom. Just wish those damn wetas stopped boring into the wood.
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10,000 views just whipped by. Is that a record for most views in the opening weekend?
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
She is about as working class as Rupert Murdoch. The problem with Marilyn and why I have never had much time for her is that she chose the wrong political party,
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As an aside, I was wondering if the feature I wrote for The Press Dusty find reveals how glitz of Hollywood seduced Kiwis appeared in any other Fairfax rags this weekend (other than the Waikato Times)
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Talking of coconuts, Kid Creole and the Coconuts were interesting back then, for 5 or 10 minutes. Saw them live in a Long Island club.
What a monster you have created here, Russell. Getting close to 10,000 views.
Accessing it on the iPad means I am spared all the video clips.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Sam F,
Yes, it was good investigative journalism. Henry came across as having zero integrity ( I doubt he knows what it is) but Aline Sandilands arguing that media high-flyers are not paid enough and thus have to prostitute themselves to corporates or advertisers....phtt!
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I don't think they are being judgemental about Bruce but just suggesting that the first encounters with our music heroes create the personas which persist. I like how he shows real anger in his latest release for it is wonderful when people grow more radical as they get older, rather than less.
And the Chiefs won again tonight, in a great game against the Waratahs.
