Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Isn’t about time Standard New Zealand English began giving Pākehā a capital ‘P’. I do as a matter of course, but in some publications I avoid using writing word in articles because they insist on editing my capital ‘P’ to a lower case ‘p’. Māori always gets a capital ‘M’. ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
It is difficult to tell when a story starts. After all, each moment is only the product of the one before, and so, like peeling an onion, or opening Pandora’s box, we find in the background of what we thought was the first frame of the film, a figure mysteriously ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Blood is thicker than Absinthe, and each Christmas I go back to Timaru to visit the family. Yes, I know, you are shocked that one as dazzlingly urbane as myself should come from Timaru (he said with tongue in cheek – sadly his own). Need I remind you that Timaru ...
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