Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It’s an interesting phrase that isn’t it?
Aw, see, now you've got my brain ticking. I put it in "scare quotes" because it's a phrase I'm not happy with and only use sarcastically. I'm now not sure I even know what I mean by it. Something like this.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I think the problem, for me, its that I am not at all attuned to realising that dudes are hitting on me. So for it to actually hit the mark, it has to be fairly overt. Which often comes across as over-bearing and pushy.
I don't tend to pick up on "being hit on" as anything more than social flirting, unless someone is being really, really creepy. And that has happened to me, quite a bit. I once described the point at which I'd realised a guy might be keen on me (unfortunately a story I can't tell, because it's hilarious) to a friend. Said friend and my partner had a long discussion about whether I can actually be this stupid. I am.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
nobody actually knows the true essence of the person they're interested in
For sure. That's a perpetually ongoing process. I just recently found something out about my partner of 18 years that I hadn't previously had an inkling of. But you can pick up the very broad strokes quite quickly. I love the process of then filling in the detail and discovering the unexpected.
It is admittedly possible that I over-think things sometimes
Given my reaction to a man saying "Do you want to grab a coffee?" is the same as it would be if it were a woman, I may under-think things sometimes.
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Capture: Christchurch: Last One Standing, in reply to Kebabette,
I dunno which one of yous rules more. The libraries website is brilliant. And my daughter will be SO happy. She was just staring mournfully through the fence at the old Central Library on Sunday.
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Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Oh, now you’re just being sedimental…
After the earth moved it just rises out of her.
Also, only my cat puts more effort and hours into trying to bring about my early demise.
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Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to JacksonP,
But the key, IMhO (ahem), is the warm atmosphere that existed in PA prior to its arrival.
It builds on what's gone before it, becomes part of the whole, and provides a foundation for whatever comes next. It's kind of great.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
Sorry to pick on one sentence. I bet you knew when you typed it that someone would pounce on it.
Yeah, I should have said "perceived as". I'm sort of boggled by how much the general perception of the Greens has changed over the years, while they've basically, in terms of essentials if not presentation, stayed exactly the same.
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Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Peter Cox,
or have an affair with his secretary or something.
He'd have got clean away with that too, IMO, provided his secretary was a woman.
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Nonetheless, Labur must learn to co-operate with the Greens in Opposition if anyone is to believe the two parties can co-operate in government. The Greens are not vote-stealers, they are a genuine political movement presently doing a very good job for itself.
Yes. Though this might have been easier if the Greens had stayed a one-trick Environment party. My feeling from talking to people who voted Green for the first time this time around is that was partly to do with personnel and partly because this:
our social democratic values: our commitment to fairness and equality for all.
is right where the Greens have cut into "Labour's" vote*. I think there's a real sense that you simply cannot trust the party as a whole (as opposed to some of its obviously talented and committed members) not to decide that they will actually concentrate less on the "feminists and gays". If I party-vote Green, I have a much surer sense that I'll not be bringing someone in off the list who will vote "conservatively" on social issues.
A genuine commitment to "equality for all" includes the dreaded "identity politics". I really feel Labour needs to pick a side on this one. If you choose to be Chris Trotter's party, then you concede the social conscience to the Greens.
*It's not, least this should need saying again, Labour's vote. -
I have just come from anniversary-night When a City Falls. We warmed up for depression and trauma by spending the afternoon watching the cricket.
So. For those not living in Chch. Seriously. If you give anywhere upwards of about half a fuck about me, or David, or anyone else who lives here, go and see this. It will give you a very real insight into what we've been through, for paltry effort.
For other Chch people. It'll be hard. It'll be good. You'll cry. It'll be okay. Yeah, it'll bring stuff back. It's like seeing an ex again for the first time after you break up. It brings back painful memories, but what are you going to do, spend the rest of your life desperately trying to avoid them?
Right at the beginning, there's an establishing shot of the city's old skyline. I didn't recognise it. I've lived here for twenty years, how can I already have forgotten what it used to look like? How?
The first thing to make me actually weep rather than sniffle was the shots of the Provincial Council Chambers, intact after September. Fuck I loved that building.
After February... there's a scene where he runs into a woman heading to the CTV building, and they end up in Latimer Square. That's where my son was. My fifteen year old son. In all of that.
And of course it's our side of town. Buildings we see every day. Things we've stopped seeing, because they're just the Way It Is.
Yeah, it rips off the scabs. But then the wounds heal cleaner.