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“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
In praise of: Jeffrey Bernard
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Cactus Kate is unwell, or so she says here . Our sympathies go out to her. However, one suspects that she is planning a debauch, given that ...
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Monday, June 28, 2010
What I’m reading
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Home Paddock has some Cactus Kate-style random impertinent questions about the sale of the Crafar farms, and reports on the resurrection o...
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Messiaen sentence of the day
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Sometimes you see a sentence that sends you off into a reverie of speculation. This, from page 98 of the July issue of Gramophone , did it f...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Lexicography question of the day
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I emailed some gossip to a friend confirming what she had suspected, that X was a See You Next Tuesday. She was unfamiliar with the expressi...
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Famous Friesians
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This snippet from yesterday’s Waikato Times intrigued me: The New Zealand Holstein Friesian Association will celebrate its centennial this y...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Sale of the century
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Just a teaser. More tomorrow.
Album title of the month
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Possibly of the year. It is by Jack Marchment on the Herb Recordings label and it is called: Who’s Afraid of Iannis Xenakis? It was release...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Public opinion
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From XKCD , the “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”.
Craig Brown on Christopher Hitchens
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As previously noted , Private Eye doesn’t put its content online, so you can’t go to its website to read UK satirist Craig Brown’s merciless...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Sentence of the day
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Most New Zealanders don’t follow Australian politics very closely, or at all. Which is a shame, because Australian politics is great. IMHO b...
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