Archive for July, 2010
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thumbing through the pages of Metro (July-August 2010), I was distraught that after only a few brief months of deliciously entertaining bitchiness, the mouthpiece of Auckland’s chattering classes was terminating (with extreme prejudice) the only recently revived Felicity Ferrit.
‘Twas with tears welling in my eyes that I turned to Frances ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
(Born July 22, 1898 – Died November 11, 1976)
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Although usually suppressed and marginalised, there is, surprisingly enough, quite a strong genre in Western Literature that I am choosing to call "Gender-bender Messiah" Lit. To attempt a definition of what I mean, we can go all the way back to classical times.
For the Romans, the odd gods tended to ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Hmmm. Is this New Zealand in 2010 or Germany in 1933? The National (Socialist) party is busy cosying up to whatever business interests we have left in this country, telling the independent judiciary its business, crushing democratically elected local government bodies (the blitzkrieg on ECan, the Auckland supercity anschluss) and ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Beautifulpeople.com is way off base. Ryan Nelson is smokin’ hot. Look at the sensuous generosity of his nose and mouth, the boyish twinkle in his eye, the honey bourbon of his crooked, full-lipped smile, the ruggedly masculine forehead and the strong, marble-hewed jaw. Woof! Bonzai! Mazel Tov!
However, "All Whites" was ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Even for someone who has only watched a few episodes of the New Zealand television comedy drama Outrageous Fortune, it must be immediately obvious that one of the touchstones of its style is the heavily charged erotic atmosphere of free-ranging uninhibited sexuality. Within a few minutes of the beginning of ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Yes, so now (in this rather sad example of cultural cringe and defference to the UK - why do we need a foreign judge anyway?) the Walters judge for this year is Vicente Todoli FORMERLY of the Tate Modern.
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17799/valencias-vicente-todoli-to-leave-london-tate-modern-in-summer
http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/tatemoderndirector.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/about/theorganisation/seniorstaff/
http://auckland.scoop.co.nz/2010/06/judge-for-walters-prize-announced/
I'm not sure that I agree with John D-P here (though delightful ...
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