The Daily Blog Open Mic – 15th August 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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On sorting through a bunch of old tapes finding which are OK – Crosby Stills Nash.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/crosbystillsnash/wastedontheway.html
Good words from Graham Nash (album: “Daylight Again” (1982))
“Wasted On The Way”
Look around me
I can see my life before me
Running rings around the way it used to be
I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started long before I did
And there’s so much time to make up everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Oh, when you were young
Did you question all the answers
Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve
Look around you now
You must go for what you wanted
Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved
…So much love to make up everywhere you turn
Love we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away…
(PS If you are making home or movie shorts, a twisted tape of Elton John makes really good horror-monster noises.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495860/whangarei-oruku-conference-centre-plans-up-in-the-air-after-funding-withdrawn
Looks like a gravy-train – poof poof ooo. Support their marvellous initiative to Hundertwasser and Maori art and artifacts please.
https://www.hundertwasserartcentre.co.nz/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495782/let-s-get-wellington-moving-staff-paid-on-average-twice-what-other-wellingtonians-earn
Poof poof ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
What moving staff have to be paid more? Is this as a result of supply and demand and so many PMC moving from Wellington (rats leaving sinking ship) that moving staff have to be found to shift their chattels, swanky furniture etc, as they look for a cheaper house somewhere to put it?
Further in the series of mismanaged nz business by wannabees.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018902601/demolition-crews-move-in-on-iconic-north-auckland-pools
Doing it for ourselves – what we can afford.
The Bob Semple tank (sometimes referred to as Big Bob) was a light tank designed by New Zealand Minister of Works Bob Semple during World War II. Originating out of the need to build military hardware from available materials, the tank was built from corrugated iron on a tractor base.
Bob Semple tank – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bob_Semple_tank
Getting into debt being like a lapdog taking on a big dog.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/495607/the-number-8-wire-days-for-nz-s-defence-force-are-over-new-priorities-will-demand-bigger-budgets