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Public Address 20/01/06 - Reading Eating Thinking
Friday, 20 January 2006, 2:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
- NZPA-Reuters: A High Court judge in Wellington has ordered Dr Muriel Newman to place quotation marks around the word 'think' on any written material referring to the New Zealand Centre for Political Debate (NZCPD)... More >>
Public Address 19/01/06 - Still Waiting ...
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I wonder whether the fact that Sony BMG has finally agreed terms to join the Australian iTunes Store flicks any kind of switch for New Zealand. The absence of Sony BMG product - and with it such beloved entertainers as Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn and Che Fu -... More >>
Public Address 17/01/06 - One More Time
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Okay, I think I have it straight now, thanks to Geoff Cumming's useful story for the Weekend Herald: the design for the lately controversial Queen Street upgrade and the two rounds of consultation on it were carried out while John Banks was mayor ... More >>
Public Address 16/01/06 - Second-Time Blog Virgin
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Deborah Coddington claims to have discovered the blogosphere last week, and she was shocked. Shocked. "Planet blogger is a sad, pathetic sphere," she lamented in her newspaper column. She's not entirely wrong, especially as regards the character of ... More >>
Public Address 13/01/06 - A Little Respect
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
After three days in London, I saw the sun. And Lo, all was good in the world. A crisp cloudless winters day was, to quote an Eels' lyric, Novocaine for the Soul. And it provided a wonderful backdrop for my long but leisurely walk from the Tate Modern, ... More >>
Public Address 12/01/06 - Dirty Ol' Town
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The thing about writing anything about London, is it's all been written before. Usually by people a lot smarter and more astute than me. Or should that be I? (Better sort that one out before me head to Oxford on Thursday.)... More >>
Public Address 10/01/06 - A Kingly Sum
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 11:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was given the sage gift of a copy of Being P?keh? Now for the festive season and took the time out to read it cover to cover. I thought this a wise idea as I've footnoted it several times... More >>
Public Address 5 & 6/01/06 - Sick Of Ham Yet?
Monday, 9 January 2006, 1:52 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Controversy hit the small Northland town of Kakamoana this week after local residents learned their council had voted to replace traditional underground fire hydrants with the free-standing model as used in New York. In a series of meeting late last ... More >>
Public Address 04/01/06 - Queen St. 2: Die Harder
Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 10:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The more I think about the Queen Street tree panic, the more it seems to me that the mayor has exercised remarkably poor political management on his own behalf. To listen to, say, Leighton Smith (and I am not for a moment recommending that you actually ... More >>
Public Address 03/01/06 - Exile On Queen Street
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I popped into town for a cruise down then up Queen Street this morning, to refresh my memory of the 20 trees earmarked for execution in what Leighton Smith has memorably dubbed "the Queen Street Massacre"... More >>
Public Address 30/12/05 - Still Standing (Just)
Friday, 30 December 2005, 2:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Two unpleasant things have happened over the holidays so far, apart, that is, from Jason Gunn narrating the Nutcracker and seeing Usher do his "In the Closet" saga on the MTV Video Awards repeat on C4... More >>
Public Address 29/12/05 - Years End
Thursday, 29 December 2005, 10:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
You know what's great? Readers. And what's better than readers? Intelligent, educated, *interested* readers, such as the readership of Public Address. Quit blushing now - you know you rock. Even you right-wingers. Even you dirty hippies... More >>
Public Address 23/12/05 - Merry Christmas
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 8:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My rhetorical muscles are aching. The AC joint of argument needs off-season surgery. I'm staggering towards the finish line, putting down that final scrum in injury time and keeping out the opposition quicks in the fading light of the fifth day of the ... More >>
Public Address 22/12/05 - Tripping
Thursday, 22 December 2005, 4:36 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
How was 2005 for you? If you had to get it down to ten bullet points, what would they be? Martha at Wanda Harland had the very interesting idea a while ago of getting your memoirs down in bullet points... More >>
Public Address 21/12/05 - Creative Indigestion
Wednesday, 21 December 2005, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In Sunday's Star Times, Kim Knight wrote a feature on the apparent persistence of sexist advertising. It reads a bit like the editors decided it'd be a good topic before they went out and tested the hypothesis, because most of the examples are ... More >>
Public Address 20/12/05 - Storytime: The Finale!
Tuesday, 20 December 2005, 4:55 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Okay. Five more stories as written and submitted by you, and that'll be all she wrote. I haven't had as many votes for the last lot as for the first five, so if you don't mind having another look over those too and voting for your... More >>
Public Address 19/12/05 - Apes And Brains
Monday, 19 December 2005, 10:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On Sunday afternoon, the family went and saw Kong. And we loved it. I thought it was a tremendous piece of film-making, if one - given the look of a couple of weak CGI sequences - that they didn't quite get to finish... More >>
Public Address 16/12/05 - Stories and Orcas
Friday, 16 December 2005, 4:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Just a quick update from the Eastern Front. All my photos from Tuesday are up here, as well as some excellent shots from Sam Graham, a local journalism student. The past two days has been more of the same: Wheeling and dealing inside the conference, ... More >>
Public Address 15/12/05 - Various Amusements
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We've got a PVR | Dec 15, 2005 10:33 Russell Brown's Hard News Our My Sky PVR was installed yesterday. And, no, yours wasn't, and if you haven't signed up for one already (or possibly even if you have) you won't be seeing it until March next year... ... More >>
Public Address 14/12/05 - Left Wing Liberal Evil
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 2:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
As some readers will doubtless be aware, I have a status amongst many members of the local right-wing blogosphere as the very symbol of Left Wing Liberal Evil. Given that I'm a director of two small companies and have an interest in another, I write ... More >>
