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Schulz’ response: “I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin — he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?” . . . → Read More: Introducing Franklin To The World  Comments are closed  Politics, The Blog  influences, journalism, Life the universe and everything, politics, racism 
It was a full house at Mata Beer last Saturday night when the EBOPers Big Band, featuring The Tequila Mockingbirds, put on a super-impressive performance. The EBOPers were formed out of the EBOP Brass Band in 2014, and are now established performers on the local circuit. . . . → Read More: Review: EBOPers impress 
The only thing we can do about awful people is not to become one of them Election night 2023 was a good night for the landlords, foreign speculators, and the very wealthy. For tenants and people who mahi hard to keep afloat, not so much. For those of us whose values include looking . . . → Read More: The only thing we can do about awful people is not to become one of them. 
Voting Papers I get asked a lot by people who I am voting for? And why?And who should they vote for. Who I’m voting for is easy to answer. I’m voting for Sebastian who lives opposite The Bean on the seats outside the public toilets. I buy him a coffee when I . . . → Read More: Time To Vote No Right Turn I know a lot of people are concerned at the relentless volume and vitriol of the attacks and attempts to undermine our elected government.It was hard enough for them in 2017 when Winston responded to the Dirty Politics leaking of his super errors by National by forming a coalition with . . . → Read More: No Right Turn 
Source: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/hijacked-the-inside-story-of-how-nzs-convoy-lost-its-rudder Days of protesters’ chats reveal the inside story of how New Zealand’s convoy was hijacked by the far-right fringe, Marc Daalder reports Special report: The convoy wasn’t supposed to end this way. What organisers hoped would be a mass movement shutting down the nation’s capital until vaccine mandates were removed has devolved into . . . → Read More: EXTREMISM: ‘Splintered realities’: How NZ convoy lost its way 
Another recycled article from the old Exposures Online Website archives originally published 16th March 2004 Meat Loaf Auckland 2004 He’s been to Hell and back has Meat Loaf, and some would say, he took a few of us with him. The former 150 kg rocker has trimmed down to a nearly respectable 110 . . . → Read More: Concert Review – Meat Loaf – Western Springs 14/03/2004 Kevin Williams R.I.P For a very long time I had heard his name – Kevin Williams Mutual friends told us both we needed to meet each other. It took years but when we did meet we became good friends. Mutually obsessed with all kinds of music facts and data that others thought was . . . → Read More: R.I.P Kevin Williams AKA Mojo Buzz – 1957 – 2021 
The train wreck that is The National Party continues today with the announcement by leader for 53 days Todd Muller that he’s done his dash. National’s leadership woes have been the story of the past decade. When Sir John Key knifed Bill English in the back and took over the leadership he was hailed . . . → Read More: National’s Train Wreck Continues 
CovidTel SOURCE: Michael Woodhouse still can’t provide evidence of his apocryphal ‘homeless man’ staying for free in quarantine. Dame Anne Salmond argues the Opposition and media need to be better in throwing around such claims. It is now 12 days since the National Party’s spokesman on health, Michael Woodhouse, claimed two women who . . . → Read More: Anne Salmond: Covid-19 and clickbait 
Source Article Friday, 26 June 2020, 10:59 am Article: Gordon Campbell For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of Covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that . . . → Read More: On The Media Collusion With National’s Attack Lines 
We all saw it. A young woman stands up at the UN and makes a speech. Instantly she is told to shut up, grow up and learn up. Old men everywhere are suddenly woke and upset that someone said something they didn’t like or agree with. A loudmouth chorus reaches crescendo level within minutes of . . . → Read More: Yes Greta, there is a fascist clause. Comments are closed The Blog climate change, free speech, Life the universe and everything, politics 
Dad and Mum My Dad was a classic kiwi bloke. He was a freezing worker, but before that he did a bootmaking apprenticeship. But he could earn more money in the meat export trade. And he needed more money because he had 7 hungry kids to feed. He liked a bet, and he . . . → Read More: Good Old Dad 
All around the world we see scenes of conflict over land issues. Of sovereignty. If we turn on talkback radio we here absolute rubbish from idiots like Sean Plunket telling us Ihumatāo is about revolutionaries trying to overthrow the system and trying bring down capitalism. And idiots will buy this line of utter shit. . . . → Read More: Ihumatāo Land Protection How are the images formed? Unlike still, movie or video cameras, the photofinish camera has no shutter and there are no frames. The capture is continuous. In place of a shutter, the photofinish camera has a narrow line of sensors behind the lens, aligned on the finishline. Using a digital scan (up to 2000 times per second) the Finishlynx system continuously captures an image of the extremely narrow (approximately 5mm) strip of track, which is the finishline. In essence this is a photograph of time and whatever passes the finishline during capture becomes a part of that image. All parts (nose, tail, hooves, ears, saddle, jockey ? the lot) of all horses in the photofinish image are right on the line. . . . → Read More: Solving The Photofinish Riddle 
There are a couple of songs that were game changers for me. As a kid I saw The Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night and the idea of girls chasing me down the street had great appeal and I thought I should be in a band some day. So every time I hear that first chord I am reminded of that moment. . . . → Read More: The Importance Of Being Eno 
These annual parties/concerts have been going on now since my old band mates from the late 70’s Dave Arrowsmith and Warren Cate and I dusted off some of our old punk rock songs, put a small vocal PA on the front deck at Waikaretu and used bedside lamps to light the way so we didn’t fall over each other. Every year they get a little bigger, and a lot better. . . . → Read More: It’s Bigger Than Texas Comments are closed Music, The Blog Concert, fiona cosgrove, live music, music, open mic, waikaretu, whakatane 
A very, very long time ago, when the internet was very young, I started building websites. That stuff is easy now but back in the mid 90’s it was all very new. I still do some websites, mainly for close friends and clients I have been working with for nearly 2 decades. And I have always had Exposures as a personal website. Exposures has changed a lot over the years and now it’s just a simple blog. back in the day it was an important website for horse racing people. It got awards. And stuff. . . . → Read More: Once Upon A Time… 
This is the country that led the world in equal suffrage, and stood up to the might of the United States to make a principled stand on nuclear armed warships entering our ports. When the French government were conducting atmospheric tests in the Pacific Islands and used their military to engage in acts of violence against New Zealanders with the courage to protest our government sent a naval frigate with a cabinet minister on board to protect our countrymen. This is the country where a Labour government denied visas to a rugby team to play apartheid sport and when a National Government supported apartheid sport this is the country where over a million people stood up to be counted. In fact on every important issue of principle over several generations New Zealanders have stood up and taken a decent stand and have demonstrated to the world that we are capable of thinking for ourselves and expressing our own point of view, even if it is at odds with others. . . . → Read More: Proud To Be A New Zealander? 
It wasn’t just the railways that got wrecked by this kind if thinking… every public service that could be opened up to private enterprise had the vultures come in for a feed. The slogan was always “efficiency”. “It’s more efficient if it’s run as a private enterprise” Except it wasn’t true. It was a lie. It was a lie told by people who wanted to make a profit providing those services. . . . → Read More: The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum |
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