Archive for January, 2011
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
I had always naturally assumed that Cher (who, of course, predates me by several decades) had deliberately adopted some of the style and affectations of that famously quotable floozy of stage and screen Mae West. However, having seen Cher’s peculiar Flying Dutchman-like passes through Burlesque (2010), the whole thing came ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Just in case anyone out there thinks I have this site for any other reason than my own amusement, recent dialogues have dictated that this summer shall be themed “Annoying Matthew Collingsâ€. Addressing his repeated criticism that I quote him out of context, I have opted to analyse the entire ...
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
I was re-reading Voltaire’s Candide (1759) over Christmas, and given Christchurch’s recent spate of troubles with the earth moving (and not in a good way), I thought the following passage remarkable apt (and equally applicable to certain individuals, bureaucracies and organisations that I need not name here). As some background, ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Much like the new Christchurch Wendy's "restaurant" (one of the circles of Dante's Inferno), I can't work up much enthusiasm for the big Ron Mueck blockbuster at CAG http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/ron-mueck/. I kind of appreciate the technical side, and there are some fairly facile readings of the human condition one might make, but ...
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