January 2012
13 posts
Treasures of English Usage in Web 2.0
Stealth Mountain Profile on Slate.com (“You’re a terrible person!”)
Beg the Question dot Info (“This is why we fight.”)
Pulp Fiction with Peter Lorre →
… and other reimagined titles. Via @badtom.
Fatherhood as the path to feminism (after Jay-Z) →
Still, world, we can’t wait for every man to have a daughter – men, find your feminism NOW.
The New Auld Countrie
David Gest claims Michael Jackson composed show tunes for Robert Burns’s poetry (via @Lismahago)
“Guid tae see ye at the Scots Wikipædia … We hae 7,996 airticles the nou.” (via @lyndonhood and @jamespjbutler)
Invisible commas
Attn @gtiso, for here is a man who
often spoke in long sentences, consisting of multiple subordinate clauses—so many of these that on at least one occasion the audience began to applaud.
Alas, the biography appears to suggest he was a nasty bastard.
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The Unrebuildable
Following this opinion piece in The Press, the #rebuilditinDunedin theme started ‘pon Twitter. I believe the redoubtable Moata Tamaira was its originator.
Then this morning, this turned up in my feed reader. With all that’s happened and is happening, I struggle to articulate what being in Canterbury means to me. It’s not the first time I’ve left it to Van Der Velden in the...
Mrs. Bernstein from the Blog
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In Christchurch's east-north-east →
I do think it’s important, no matter how bored we are by earthquake news, that we keep things in perspective, that we remember that there are still households battling with Portaloos, flooded and broken streets, deep layers of muck, ruined houses and all the trials and tribulations that come with being in a designated residential red zone.
Doctor Who Meets "Total Eclipse of the Heart" …... →
What a treat! I have used the earlier literal version of this song with my students for a number of semesters now, but this takes it even further.
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. If you’re a fan of the long-running UK sci-fi show Doctor Who and know your Internet memes, this video will strike you as a brilliant mash-up of...
“Tomorrow I go back to work. I can’t say I’m enthusiastic at the thought. Not...”
– “There are moments”, from Make Tea Not War.
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Recent Local Earthquake Writing
The Daisy Boat (Cheryl Bernstein)
Mobile Phone Pictures, September 2010-December 2011 (Philip Matthews)
Locksley Avenue: A Portrait of a Street (Adrienne Rewi)
December 2011
2 posts
Chris Christmas Rodriguez →
Dear friends; each year from 2005 I have shared the joy of the man who could replace Santa this Christmas. Enjoy his inappropriate behaviour at your table and behind your tree.
October 2011
1 post
Like taking candy from a baby
This move is familiar to my household.
animalsbeingdicks:
After a stressful day, Evan needed the kind of comfort only a binkie could provide.
September 2011
11 posts
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More about stories →
More narrative, I say; more contexts, more tales, more construction of reality. MOAR!
Wellington is built on rubbish →
By @librarykris. I link not only for the winsome title but also for the use, which I love, of “spoil”.
You know it makes me think of Robin Hyde’s eponymous poem, all those beautiful things built on ruined things.
Words Smashed to Syllables →
By @kebabette at the @ChristchurchLib blog.
Family commitments and life in general mean I don’t get out to literary events as much as I would like, but sometimes simply reading someone else’s account of them is as much a pleasure. Thanks, Donna!
Vinyl Vault – “NZ Music” →
Putty in Her Hands were a duo consisting of Charlotte Yates and Christine Jeffs. Yates continues to write and record, continuing to release solo records and also putting together the acclaimed compilations of NZ poetry set to music, Baxter (2000), Tuwhare (2008) and Ihimaera (2011).
After the only official Putty in Her Hands release (trick of the Light in 1987) Jeffs took a different turn...
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Is the internet killing rhetorical questions? →
[T]he web is making fact-checkers of us all.
Notes on the City as Memory: Scape 2011
Tweets by Cheryl Bernstein; images by Ross Becker, SCAPE Biennial and Newswarped.com.scapebiennial.org.nz
“ Much interest in temporary buildings that allows people to come together in ways that suits their times, not imposed on them by history.CherylBernsteinSeptember 9, 2011“ At the City as Memory discussion. Jonathan Mane-Wheoki speaking; much aroha in the room. Rubble-necking choppers flying...
August 2011
2 posts
Resilience →
The question of people’s toughness in the face of these repeated blows to their financial and social security is glib, irrelevant and insulting.
Cream Torpedoes: Recent Poetry in New Zealand →
July 2011
6 posts
“What I love about images from movies and TV is that somebody wrote them.”
– “Desktop Images”: Chad Taylor Marginalia.
“My children were at the centre of my life, circled at a distance by my writing....”
– J G Ballard (via plausibledeniability)
I don’t know the source beyond this attribution - anyone better-informed on this than me?
Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' →
Via @secondzeit and @guardian.
Because of Greek-style problems, I cannot oblige you at Cannes. I would go to the death for the festival, but not a step further.
June 2011
3 posts
Theosophy
@CB: "Mum, imagine if everyone in the world was called Theo, including all the dogs and hamsters."
@BT: A Theocracy?
@CB: Theoretically.
No revolution today →
This short essay is more-or-less the way my thinking sits these days, although in all seriousness I welcome your revolutionary feedback on why I am wrong.
Image detail from a larger print by Tom Burns.
May 2011
31 posts
Kahu Kiwi and DNA →
The DNA of feathers in kahu kiwi suggests an ancient feather-trade within and between our two main islands.
Buying Memories →
Pauline Dawson writes a guest post for Small Town Stories.
It started with a fork.
A window into one woman’s Museum of Me (h/t Giovanni Tiso).
