We’re having a referendum at present re smacking, and it seems the only thing everyone can agree on re that subject is that the wrong question is being asked, and how badly it is written. A referendum question could be written:
“Do you want a Hilton Hotel building for rich tourists constructed on the sunny part of the Outer Tee Quay in Wellington?”

which would get a different response to :
“Should the Council save $40million of rate-payers money by allowing a lease for a public facility to refinance the decaying waterfront piles, and help create a lovely ambience for late afternoon drinking while they’re at it?”

OK, badly worded questions i know, (mad eup on the spur of the moment) and both are equally loaded, but I reckon they’d get massively different responses.

Well, perhaps it doesn’t make sense to you, but to me anything that involves a private company wanting to inflict their wish for making money on one of the best harbours I know deserves to be placed before the population who will have to live with the consequences.

Cheers

Jan

A lot of dolleros for a few judges

Actually, I do go there, reasonably regularly, and am impressed by the quality and quantity of material you guys (no pun intended) cover. Politics, Rodney Hide, Videos of the Week – you’ve got it all going on there.

But you’re just missing a certain Fishy something….

We’re, perhaps, not quite as rude as you are.

But then, that’s not entirely a bad thing.

Larry Fishburne, now there’s a name to treasure…
and Rangi’s Catch. I could live with that.
Or the Fisher King – that was a good tale.
Little Fish – an Aussie production
Big Fish – apparently Tim Burton’s best work
Fish Tank – sounds cruel to me
and now, the latest: the End of the Line

See – everyone likes to fish. In retrospect, what a well-considered name this blog has. I swear we didn’t think of these connotations at the time…. We could have a whole season at the Film Archive or something… Architecture and Fish.