Month: January 2011
I guess I can understand his concerns
Teens: low-slung loping wonders
What is it with teenage boys and their arms? Every single one of them that I’ve seen around town lately meanders along with street in that kind of slouchy lope that makes them look like a cross between an ape and…
I think I see the problem …
Everyone is out to get you on the web
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) They say that it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you (they being those who are out to get you), and that’s never more true than on…
Censorship: does it really help?
The news last week that the Dire Straits song Money For Nothing had been banned in Canada came as no great surprise but did leave me feeling a bit sad. And it was the confirmation that we are so ridiculously…
Ronery … he’s so Ronery
We all fall down …
What is it with all the stuff falling down lately? I’m not talking about buildings in Christchurch because a good 7.1 rattle will do that to a city. No, I’m talking about our stadium crapping out during the September snowstorm, that…
