After a few days off the radar I find it amusing that I get the news of the All Blacks announcement via Grant Robertson’s blog .
{ 0 comments }
October 2009
So, here I am sitting in the deserted cafe of the Antarctic Centre at Christchurch Airport, waiting to pick up Marty R for the start of his birthday trip. We’ve hired a sporty silver Mercedes so we can drive him back to his gaff in Dunedin and then hoon around Otago pretending to be rock stars. […]
{ 0 comments }
If you are told something is “policy” or “standard business practice” it means the real reason is something no moral person could live with. (via @GaryRocketman on Twitter)
{ 0 comments }
I just got back from reviewing a couple of films for RNZ National’s Nine to Noon show: (500) Days of Summer and An Education. You can listen to the item here, but I also recommend subscribing to the podcast so you can cherry-pick the best of each day’s broadcast. Dan Slevin reviews ‘500 Days of […]
{ 0 comments }
The romantic comedy is moribund. The first traces of its demise can be dated to the turn of the millenium, when Hugh Grant decided that he didn’t really want to be the floppy-haired object of middle-class women’s affections. Since then, the genre has been a reliable producer of tired and cynical “battles of the sexes” …
{ 2 comments }
It’s October which means that the best radio programme in the world my favourite radio programme is back — Start the Week with Andrew Marr. The walk to work is made that much more intellectual when STW is on the iPod. This week there was a lovely moment when Peter Maxwell-Davies (Master of the Queen’s […]
{ 0 comments }
