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[Nov. 8th, 2009|11:12 am] |
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Hone Harawira beleives that the Da Vinci Code made the Louvre famous. Rather more offensive than his other comments I feel. |
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[Nov. 27th, 2008|12:05 am] |
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Party at my house on Friday, 7.30 or so on. Late notice I know, but you should all come. It'll be awesome. |
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| Detailed post-election analysis |
[Nov. 9th, 2008|11:35 am] |
New Zealand is full of vapid shallow morons and yesterday they banded together to fuck the rest of us. It's hard to believe I live in a country where people are willing to elect assholes like Roger Douglas, Bill English, Maurice Williamson and Lockwood Smith to parliament. Roger Douglas!
I'm not at all happy. I don't want to sound like a supervillian, but New Zealand will regret its decision before 2011.
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Also, did y'all see me on tv last night? I was at the Labour Party HQ when Helen resigned. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 19th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
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| | Popular Computer - Darling | ] |
So uh...convince me that all music other than Townes Van Zandt and Yungchen Lhamo doesn't suck? I kind of want to like listening to music again. So what have you been listening to, I guess? |
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| The Continuing Campaign for the Aggressive De-election of Rodney Hide |
[Oct. 4th, 2008|11:47 am] |
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| | Labi Siffre - I Got the (Blues) | ] |
Did you guys see that thing a while ago about Helen Clark's comments about Iraq? I don't really care either, but I sort of want to draw your attention to Heather Roy's comments:
It was also an insult to the United States; "to whom we owe a debt from World War 2 that we can never repay".
I raged pretty hard. There seems to be this idea around New Zealand that WWII was somehow our war, as much as it was Britain's or America's. Obviously I don't think that's true. I blame Michael Joseph Savage.
tl dr; Vote Richard Worth in Epsom. |
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[Aug. 31st, 2008|01:02 pm] |
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| | Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle | ] |
I'm bummed out. If Winston Peters hadn't stepped down yesterday this would have been the third time he'd been dismissed from cabinet. Three different administrations! I'm pretty sure that would have been a record. |
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| More liek Prince Crapsian, amirite? |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|04:58 pm] |
Look, I enjoy a casual disregard for human life in my movies as much as the next guy, but Prince Caspian was still pretty stupid.
I was hesitating to post this, because I bet if you totalled up the number of times if bitched about something on livejournal I'd look like a negative asshole. So I will balance out my thinking Prince Caspian was bad with this tangentially related comment:
I'm reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity right now, and I think it's really good. It's taking me a while to get through it with schoolwork and all, but I'm really enjoying reading what he has to say. I won't say it's got me to think about my personal spirituality or anything masturbatory like that, but it is a well-written defense of Christian doctrine, for anyone interested in that stuff. |
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| Kenya: 900 dead, economy down |
[Feb. 3rd, 2008|05:11 pm] |
Here's Lord Malloch-Brown, British Foreign Office Minister, on the current situation in Kenya:
"This country is hurting. Its economy is way down. Tourist receipts are way down. It's a country which at points this weekend seemed almost physically divided, with roadblocks preventing people moving from one side of the country to another."
I'm not particularly angry about this, either. You can't be angry, really. All Malloch-Brown is doing is admitting to is the golden rule of capitalism, the reason that Kenya is in the state it's in. It isn't at all unusual to think about human life in valued terms.
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I've been thinking a lot about politics lately, mostly because I'm living, working and spending every waking moment in the Wellington goldfish bowl. This will all change when I get back to Auckland where no one gives a shit about politics and life is cheap. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|06:22 pm] |
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| | EYEHATEGOD - Run it Into the Ground | ] |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7199736.stm
India launches an Israeli satellite to spy on Iran. For those of you keeping track at home, Israel and India both possess nuclear arsenals, and neither is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran has signed the NPT and does not have the bomb. This isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black. This is the pot and the kettle teaming up to insist that the crystal vase is black, and then launching 300kgs of steel into space to prove it. Here the analogy gets a bit confused. |
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| And now, cynicism |
[Jan. 22nd, 2008|06:00 pm] |
Oh, if only Sir Ed had struggled on until April or May. A little closer to the election and we could have had fist fights in the aisle of Holy Trinity as politicians clawed at each other for the chance to wipe away a tear as they stood by the coffin.
This business has really revealed our news media as the pack of vultures they are. The New Zealand Herald today printed the program of the funeral and the words to the hymns, so that if you have your newspaper open in the church you can sing along. Close Up (and some of you may know my opinion of Close Up and Mark "Political Neutrality" Sainsbury) were having a poll on whether we should rename Aoraki-Mt. Cook in honour of Sir Edmund! Jesus Christ, such arrogance. |
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| High point of the Summer |
[Oct. 31st, 2007|09:39 pm] |
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| | Half Japanese - Tell Me I'm Wrong | ] |
Anyway, I'm having a party at my house on Friday, the 16th of Nov. and I'd like you to be there. I think we're telling people to come over around 7 or 8, but really, I'll probably be around here all day. Come over whenever. We'll get maudlin and lament yet another step into decrepitude. It'll be pretty fantastic. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 3rd, 2007|06:53 pm] |
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| | Mr. T Experience - I'm Like Yeah, But She's All No | ] |
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/08/tehran-terror-and-colonial-mystique.html
"As Joseph Massad points out in 'Desiring Arabs', this Orientalism has been smuggled into human rights and gay liberation discourse by those who ought to know better: the certainty that there is something unique about Islam that proscribes and punishes homosexuality went alongside propagandistic claims by the ILGA and others about the "mass execution" of homosexuals in Iran. There is today a bitter argument among human rights activists, Iranian diasporists, gay rights activists and so on about the extent of repression of gays in Iran... As Rostam Pourzal points out, a number of gay rights organisations have pointedly shunned the claims being made in some quarters about an anti-gay "pogrom" in Iran. The Iranian government is repressive of all sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage, but I suspect that the claims now being made by a few individuals - often transmitted through Peter Tatchell who is totally unreliable these days - reflect the state of Western liberalism, and not the state of Iran. They reflect the obsession of liberals with Islam and questions of identity, and they also provide, whether they mean to or not, one plank in a propaganda campaign against a country that Washington is currently targeting."
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| WTFWJD |
[Jul. 9th, 2007|09:02 pm] |
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| | Merzbow / Gore Beyond Necropsy - Tits 4 Chaos Rectal Anarchy | ] |
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| Someone has a sense of humour |
[Jun. 28th, 2007|10:31 pm] |
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Tony Blair has been made some kind of peace envoy to the Middle East. I wish profoundly that I was joking. Unfortunately, Ariel Sharon's abortive life is being artificially preserved in a Jerusalem hospital somewhere, so I'm unable to say that Anthony Blair is the worst man alive to be made an ambassador to the Middle East. Nevertheless, he wouldn't have been my first choice. |
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| Why I hurt so bad |
[Jun. 10th, 2007|11:00 pm] |
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| | Kreator - Command of the Blade | ] |
Mungyodance 2. Furries finally doing something useful? Perhaps. I'm kind of broken from playing it today. In between all that yiffing furries find time to do a lot of bar raping I guess. |
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| Where's your god now? |
[May. 16th, 2007|11:57 pm] |
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| | and nothing of value was lost | ] |
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| | Z-Ro - T.H.U.G. (True Hero Under God) | ] |
My politics lecture came into class today and starts telling us all what a bad day he'd been having. Someone at the back of the class yelled out, "Jerry Falwell's dead." Suddenly, smiles all round. |
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