GREAT WISDOM FROM THE JIMARY
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Read and obey. You have your orders. Fly, my Pretties! http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2011/03/five-things-to-do-tomorrow.html
Archive for March, 2011
Read and obey. You have your orders. Fly, my Pretties! http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2011/03/five-things-to-do-tomorrow.html
The Rory Award
Monday, March 14th, 2011In the Douglas Adams novel Life, the Universe, and Everything (basically when it all went down hill - and don't get me started on that shitty Eoin Colfer cynical cash in And Another Thing - RUBBISH) there is a thing called the "Rory Award for the most Gratuitous Use of ...
Thinking about Parekowhai in Venice
Sunday, March 13th, 2011According to my dear friend Jenny Harper, Director of Christchurch Art Gallery and New Zealander Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, as read in CNZ’s media material, Michael Parekowhai’s “On first looking at Chapman's Home,” his Venice contribution, “is topical and polished. Michael Parekowhai will create a sense of drama and ...
Earthquakes, Art, Cabbages and Kings.
Saturday, March 12th, 2011A lot on Christchurch post-quake heritage issues in the Sunday Star-Times this weekend. The Focus section has a big feature fostering the debate with the usual show ponies (does Justin Paton own any shirts that aren’t muscle tees? – put it away, Justin). That’s all well and good, though I’m ...
French and Saunders do Bergman and Fellini
Saturday, March 12th, 2011First the Ingmar Bergman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2MQthEYGsI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XrAH9Z_Bjk And now the Fellini: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVTHeKnvMI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1cKQCPPfk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43J3ONMQrns Don't watch while eating or you may do yourself an injury.
Jim Stuart-Black: Hottie of the Emergency
Friday, March 11th, 2011Some might consider running a series on "Hotties of the Emergency" to be somewhat bad taste. To that I respond that, while sitting on your bucket amidst the rubble in front of the telly waiting (presuming you are fortunate enough to have electricity again), all you really can do is ...
WEB MEMES – MAKE ME VIRAL
Thursday, March 10th, 2011I just included this in a comment on Dr Brian Edwards' blog, but I was so impressed with myself, I am going to include it here also: I think I’ve just discovered another social media phenomenon, and I’m calling it a ChchTroll – someone who insists in a comments forum that ...
COCA CLOSED
Thursday, March 10th, 2011Just recieved in th email: 10 March 2011 The staff and trustees have been meeting daily since we last communicated with you on the website on 3 March. After much discussion and sharing of ideas between the staff and trustees, we narrowed down the options in the last days. We have reached ...
