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Public Address 19/12/6 - Losing The Billboard Plot
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Okay, so here's the guy's MySpace page. The guy, that is, who has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes in Suffolk. It's the story of the MySpace era that grabbing a little patch of turf in cyberspace is now so trivially easy that ... More >>
Public Address 18/12/06 - Munted
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:12 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Drunk girls in heels and dresses the size of handkerchiefs. Queues everywhere. Clearly, the idea of ducking down to the Viaduct for a drink had not been a particularly sound one, even at 1am. Town was festively busy and everyone, it seemed, was munted in ... More >>
Public Address 15/12/06 - Winners And Loose Units
Friday, 15 December 2006, 11:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. The main motive for the Flying Nun Moments competition that's been running the past week and a half was really to flush out some popular memory and get it forever on the Interweb, but I'm delighted to be able ... More >>
Public Address 14/12/06 - Walk The Line
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The news that drug-impaired drivers will be treated the same way as drunks behind the wheel has been coming for some time, and was essentially inevitable. But I think the Greens' Metiria Turei is right when she says the new regime raises some tricky ... More >>
Public Address 13/12/06 - John Campbell's Bedroom
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 3:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GUEST: John Campbell on the Flying Nun years - When I was seventeen, just about every boy I knew who did not dream of being an All Black dreamt of being in a band. I dreamt of both. And whilst the All Black dream was comically outlandish, at least the All ... More >>
Public Address 12/12/06 - Our Man In Hong Kong
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 2:43 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So... what about that Don Brash then? I hear he's not the National Party leader anymore. Ahem. I think it's the jetlag. I've moved back about 300 timezones, so I'm a bit behind on the news... More >>
Public Address 08/12/06 - Copywrong
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There are some things to applaud in the Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill. It finally brings to the table an exception for the format-shifting of music that was proposed more than five years ago, it promises to expand and flesh ... More >>
Public Address 07/12/06 - The Identity Game
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 10:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
They're taking over. The 'New Zealanders' I mean. As you can see, they're actively killing off the white-folk, looting their homes and renaming their children. Once this demographer realises that we 350,000 'Asians' aren't actually one ethnic group, ... More >>
Public Address 06/12/06 - Where You Heard It First
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Righto. The New Zealand iTunes Store is now available as an option in the iTunes app. I had to fiddle about a bit to see it - see advice in the discussion thread for this post - suggesting there's a cacheing issue or something, but it's there, ... More >>
Public Address 05/12/06 - Doing The Rounds
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Fresh FM's Matt Lawrey asked John Key a good question last week: "In 1981, were you for or against the Springbok Tour?" It's a good question because it explores a fundamental divide in New Zealand society... More >>
Public Address 04/12/06 - How To Smoke An MP
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
MP smoking is an art. You don't just pick one up and start puffing. You must know how to select an MP, cut him, light him up, and finally, smoke him. Choosing an MP When purchasing an MP there are certain things you should keep in mind... More >>
Public Address 01/12/06 - Aggregate Me, Baby!
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:50 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Do we have a little bit of a situation here? A senior employee from iTunes in the US has been here this week - not that there's anything happening, you understand - to talk with potential aggregators for New Zealand content on the iTunes store ... More >>
Public Address 30/11/06 - Citizen Key II
Friday, 1 December 2006, 6:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Wherein I take up David Slack's search for the soul of John Key. I can tell you that the new National leader and I attended Christchurch's Burnside High School together. I gather that we both met our soulmates in that time... More >>
Public Address 29/11/6 - Aspirations Going Forward
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 8:34 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If the least expectation you have of a politician is that he or she not speak about him or herself in the third person, then look away for a moment as I relate the words of John Key delivering his inaugural speech today as leader of the National Party... More >>
Public Address 28/11/06 – Maxim-ising The Vote
Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 5:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Finally got my copy of The Hollow Men last night. It's fascinating. Hard News gets a citation on p209. The date and title of the cited post are wrong, but the content is correct... More >>
Public Address 27/11/06 – Hollow Men Impressions
Monday, 27 November 2006, 11:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I went to U2's last Auckland show, the Zoo TV performance at Western Springs in 1993. I spent a good deal of it sitting back giggling on the hill and proposing they played one with a tune next... More >>
Public Address 24/11/06 - What Happens Next
Friday, 24 November 2006, 4:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's not about the book. Of course it's about the book. Gerry Brownlee has done a support deal allowing him to remain as deputy leader and, as a stray dog in the street could tell you, John Key will be elected leader on Monday... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 22/11/06 - Let's Be Hearing It
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 12:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was critical of the way Nicky Hager sprang his Corngate book, Seeds of Distrust, in 2002. I didn't think the possibility of an injunction was real enough to justify the way that story was handled... More >>
Public Address 21/11/06 - A Roar Across The Water
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 4:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A little follow-up from yesterday. Mr D. Dobbyn of the parish of Grey Lynn, responding to Murray McCully's tacky little burp about an alleged insult to the Queen by dint of the performance of his song 'Welcome Home', advises that: "The Queen officially ... More >>
Public Address 20/11/06 - Giant Cancerous C*Ndom
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:51 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had to think twice about venturing again into the waterfront stadium issue - it's just all a bit mad, frankly - but I do feel bound to point out that we appear to have a new height for anti-waterfront stadium hysteria, from yesterday's meeting ... More >>
