Posts by Geoff Lealand
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We certainly need some clarity on this, rather than scare-mongering, Smacks of Yellow Cable Peril.
Got a note to say that high-speed broadband will be passing by our house within days. Should I covertly spy on the installers?
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Well, Austin TX has competition. I picked up a bumper sticker in Portland ORE a couple of weeks ago which read Portland : Keep It Weird They claim prior ownership on it. In either case, I think they are only mildly or respectably weird.
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Was recommended The Punch Brothers "Who's Feeling Young Now?" and it is bloody good and , dare I say, so is Springsteen's new"Wrecking Ball". Also the Arcade Fire track "Abraham's Daughter" on The Hunger Games soundtrack, which in turn is from a surprisingly intelligent and engrossing movie,
Good stuff all round,
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The Chiefs are giving us hope this year and it is not all due to SWB.
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Our passion fruit is sending out confusing messages. The skin remains green but the pulp is ripe. Is this a particular variety?
On something completely different, I think we need a new cinema thread (Craig?). Went to The Hunger Games today and I was impressed. Really superior to the current slate of empty-calories mainstream movies. The film society has also been offering some treasures, such as Asphalt Jungle and Wake In Fright.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
Phoenix Palm?
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I would post a photo of the first feijioa to fall but will dig out some recipes instead. The old-style Captain Kidd apples are especially delicious this year, despite the lack of sun.
Completely off the topic: those damn French! I have always wondered why we have never made a decent New Zealand movie about rugby. Saw Jo's Boy at the French Film Festival today--a feel-good movie about fathers and sons and rugby but set in France (with the ABs as aspirational heroes).
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Ella Dunbar-Wilcox
Jeepers. That would be the daughter of Leonard Wilcox, my former teacher and pal at the university, and Jane Dunbar of The Press. Leonard is a very good jazz drummer. -
Busy lad, Russell. You forgot about the NZOS meeting last Monday?
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Jos,
Well, it was a little puzzling, to queue in the street for 20 minutes and then go through a convoluted process in the shop itself, all for sugary donuts with daft names like Marshall Mathers and McMiniville. My objective was to get a tshirt for my daughtrer and I can only judge the quality of the fare on the one Bavarian Cream donut I bought. A bit too sweet.
It is interesting how such places gain a certain mystiwque, when in other circumstance they would be run-of-the-mill shops. One other place I visited years ago was a bar devoted to Klinger from M*A*S*H, in Toledo, Ohio.,
I wonder if it is just an American phenomenon. Nevertheless, I like places with literary or film associations, such as the Jack London bar in Oakland CA, for Jack did once drink there.