Well, the Stuff.co.nz web site anyway (Hamish McDouall’s cricket blog to be precise): Here is my friend Dan, seething with volcanic energy, about the Napier test: “I’m still furious about Sunday afternoon’s collapse, not because it was so unnecessary (and not because I’d just texted a friend saying literally “we won’t bat again in this […]
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A comment from a Guardian over-by-over reader on Steve Harmison’s surprisingly candid interview with Nasser Hussain during the First Test: “Is Harmison going to try his nuts off and hold his hands up at the same time?” asks Alfred Moore. “Because I can’t see that ending well.”
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Regardless of the players being poached, the international careers prematurely ended, the enormous amounts of money distorting the great and wonderful game , whatever… This, dear reader, is the reason why the Indian Cricket League must be defeated: And, while we are on the subject of the ICL here are a few mugshots. Happy to […]
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But I ask the questions again — why remove the captaincy from the world’s best captain? Why truncate the career, in any way, of the highest run scorer in our history? Hamish McDouall discusses the retirement of Stephen Fleming at Stuff
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Noted without comment: Westpac stadium — as soulless and joyless as it sounds — was already deserted before nightfall had truly come. Mike Atherton, The Telegraph
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Before we get too far into this great Summer of 07–08 I want to express some concern at how easy young Vettori seems to be taking defeat. He’s taking it graciously, magnanimously and generously to be sure. But he doesn’t look like he hates losing, like it eats away at him, corroding his very soul. In […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”