Author Archives: CUP
Let me stew: I’m a doctor
A few thoughts on the doing of a PhD. Continue reading
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Bruno Lawrence’s Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition (Revisited)
A passing glance at Blerta Revisited. Continue reading
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Go See Some Art
Thinking that it was ending this weekend, today I went to take a final look at Julia Morison’s Meet Me On The Other Side. But I was wrong: it’s got another week to run, finishing on 25 March. So I … Continue reading
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Bombs away
Back when I was a child, I was briefly involved in some very typical student controversy that made the news for a couple of days. It was all fairly ridiculous, but I guess it seemed like a big deal at … Continue reading
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A Happy Announcement
I’m sure he won’t mind me saying. Kea & Cattle founder and main writer, the redoubtable Andrew Dean, has become Ashburton’s latest Rhodes Scholar. Asked his feelings on receiving the news, Dean was reticent. “Yeah mate, I’m stoked”–before turning back … Continue reading
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From a seat in the crowd
Beginning my day in the usual way, titillating myself with a quick run-through of my favourite celebrity gossip site, catching up on Courtney Love’s honorary patronage of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, George Clooney’s slide into painful self-parody, and Lindsay Lohan’s … Continue reading
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Standing corrected
My oft-stated assertion in the “build-up” to the RWC was that this thing would be the last hurrah of a dying myth–the myth of NZ’s rugby obsession, of the All Blacks as national icons, all that jazz. The never-adverted-to (but … Continue reading
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If I paid 15 dollars to see Horrible Bosses, you can pay 20 to see The Passion of Joan of Arc
For the past month and half, I’ve been doing something entirely new to me. I haven’t become a pleasant and forgiving person, though possibly that will be the next stop on my journey of self-redefinition. No. But once a week … Continue reading
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