Archive for March, 2010
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
When I trot over the road to the servo to pick up my Sunday Star-Times, the Sunday magazine insert is normally something I let tumble to the floor to be ignored. Its vapid twittering tone grates. Similarly I harbour suspicions that Woman’s Day causes brain damage. But for some reason ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
As a professional writer, It is somewhat expected of me to send out unsolicited manuscripts to overseas magazines and periodicals. Most of these publications demand hard copy by snail mail with a SAE and thus an International Reply Coupon. But for some reason best known only to NZ Post, no ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
It’s not fun calling people names. Actually, that’s not true; of course it’s fun – it’s just not very nice, and that’s why I don’t normally do it when sober, but the time has come to call a spade a spade. John Reynolds has become an old art world whore. ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
It may seem to my regular readers that I have some sort of vendetta against Denis Dutton. No – not really, it’s just I am usually horrified by anything he writes. The latest atrocity to catch my eye is an Op Ed piece in the LA Times on why having ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/3450374/Rugby-World-Cup-sculpture-unveiled
Would someone please explain to me why the fuck Weta is doing this and not an artist? Why is Weta taking bread out of the mouths of New Zealand’s sculptors with this unimaginative pseudo-Fascist tat? Sadly it appears that art in this country is getting assimilated into entertainment, ...
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