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Public Address 20/09/06 - All Kinds Of Crazy Stuff
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Does it say somewhere in the Exclusive Brethren manual that church members should lie as they see fit? You have to wonder. Everyone's favourite secretive patriarchal sect has popped up again across the Tasman, this time denying a meeting between four ... More >>
Public Address 18/9/6 - It's Not Catching You Know
Monday, 18 September 2006, 3:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm familiar with the Peter Davis rumour, in all its various locations - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pakistan, Hagley Park; a public toilet, a taxi, an airport - and with its different supporting actors: MFAT, the police and the Diplomatic Protection Squad... More >>
Public Address 15/09/06 - Rock 'N' Roll
Friday, 15 September 2006, 10:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm due to convene with a bunch of codgers later today to perform an exercise related to this year's 25th anniversary of Flying Nun Records. The exercise will involve arguing over a list of the best releases to have come from the label, which I guess ... More >>
Public Address 14/09/06 - You Know What ...
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
That's all? No Goats? No r*nt-boys? Perhaps the secrets too-awful-to-reveal are yet to come. If they do, I daresay we'll read them first on Sydney indymedia who wrote on this very day one year ago:... More >>
Public Address 13/09/06 - Big Norm
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 11:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
No time for a substantial post today - and I fear I fell prey to the dread 9/11 commentator's ramble yesterday anyway - but here are a couple of things you might like to see... More >>
Public Address 11 & 12/09/06 – The 9/11 Posts
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So if polls find that more than a third of Americans believe the 9/11 attacks to have been an inside job by their own government, and around half still believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with it, does that mean only about 15% have any... More >>
Public Address 08/09/06 - What Chicks Really Dig
Friday, 8 September 2006, 1:05 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
While certain persons at Sir Humphreys eagerly declare that "most women will readily admit" that what they really want is to be physically dominated, I have my doubts. What chicks really dig is, like, guys treating them like fellow humans, listening ... More >>
Public Address 07/08/06 - Itunes, B**Bs And Stuff
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
PA reader the Rev. Margaret Mayman emailed to ask me whether I knew anything about the prospects of a New Zealand iTunes Store appearing. Which reminded me that, in fact, I do. The local music industry is seeing signs of movement... More >>
Public Address 06/09/06 - Counterspin
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 12:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Labour's return of fire on National - with the promise of, literally, a book of embarrassing emails to and from Don Brash in advance of last year's election - is, of course, spin: a classic effort to change the subject from something Labour doesn't want to ... More >>
Public Address 04/09/06 - The Clearing Of Throats
Monday, 4 September 2006, 1:35 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm not sure I get Bill Ralston's moment of shame, as breathlessly reported by two Sunday newspapers. During the week, a Herald on Sunday reporter was pursuing a "news" story on an itinerant Auckland man, whose only conventional news value appears to ... More >>
Public Address 01/09/06 - Home And (Bombs) Away
Friday, 1 September 2006, 12:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Damn, the coffee was good this morning. Some things, you want them done right, you do them yourself. It's nice to be home, and I didn't even mind being selected for a bag search at SFO and LAX, and being sent through the air-puffer machine at SFO ... More >>
Public Address 31/08/06 - Tasers – Funny Or Not?
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Let's start with the funny, then. Big burly bear of a cop takes one for the team and pretends to get nuts on another cop right before he's being shot with a Taser... More >>
Public Address 30/08/06 - Foo Report
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, that's it. Been there, got the t-shirt - a number of t-shirts, in fact - and am now down to processing it all. Foo Camp was very cool, and quite unlike any conference I've been to before... More >>
Public Address 29/08/06 - Momentum
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's one of the strange things about being a Kiwi, that feeling that there's something desirable hiding just beyond the horizon. If you're like me you probably moved around a fair bit when you were a child, even if it's only within the same town or city, ... More >>
Public Address 26/08/06 - Quick Update
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I am now a member of something called Environment California, having been persuaded to sign up on a Sebastopol sidewalk by a pretty young Japanese-American. I explained that committing to a regular monthly payment would not be appropriate, given that ... More >>
Public Address 28/08/06 - Women Elsewhere
Monday, 28 August 2006, 12:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Blundering through the forest of life, it's always nice to find that someone ahead of you has thoughtfully dropped breadcrumbs to mark the path. When I was newly knocked up and about to move to New York City, it was Ayun Halliday who sprinkled a trail ... More >>
Public Address 25/08/06 - Letter From America
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:33 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It wasn't quite the first contact I would have desired. The man on the immigration desk didn't seem to like me. In response to the usual opening question, I told him I was in the United States for a conference... More >>
Public Address 24/08/06 - Steak Break
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Deadline nights are kinda like slumber parties. By myself. With work. But apart from that, it's just like a slumber party. I drink can after can of Red Bull and eat chocolate biscuits. I get to stay up all night in my jammies and listen to Queen... More >>
Public Address 21/08/06 - Four New Posts!
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 11:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Just time for a quick post before I fly out to San Francisco today: no to carry-on liquids, yes to iPod, laptop etc. Could be worse. I'm excited and, for reasons I won't go into, pretty frazzled too... More >>
Public Address 18/08/06 - Bong Joy
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 9:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Once again, the readers come through. Yesterday's appeal for DIY bong stories drew a torrent of tales that may or may not keep Jim Anderton awake nights. It seems clear enough that Mr Anderton's retail ban on pot-smoking paraphernalia will have to contend ... More >>
