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Fighting Talk - Latest Talk

Fighting Talk - Latest Talk


http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com

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Matt Nippert - PhD (spin), Wellington
Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Been reading. One of the perks of being in the media is browning noses with publishers, and I've been fortunate enough to land a hard-to-find copy by a book by one old (92 and counting) geezer; Mr Studs Terkel. If his name alone ain't cool enough for you, this intro and interview in The Onion...

http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_fightingtalk_archive.html#108243413726380469

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Tom Goulter - Gadabout, Christchurch
Monday, April 19, 2004

I know a guy who collects old video games. Every time I see him, he proclaims loudly the latest archaic 1980's goody he's picked up, or if he hasn't found any, he reiterates how his collection of NES games now stretches around his mantelpiece. And he has some good fuckin' games, man. He's got Digger T-Rock. He's got fuckin' Excitebike. Thanks to my diligent digging styles, he's even got his very own Super Nintendo, which, in addition to (infamously) being the basis for something Sony made a minor impact with a whiles back, is unquestionably the Best Games Machine Ever.

http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_fightingtalk_archive.html#108237526408364828

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Lyndon Hood - consumer, Lower Hutt
Monday, April 19, 2004

I have been ill and the quality of my thought processes is degraded. The pressure from my sinuses and the swollen glands in the back of my neck appears to be preventing me joining up ideas in any satisfactory manner.
So when I say that I feel some thematic connection between my personal attitude to the Lower Hutt produce market and sweatshops, you might have to bear with me.

http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_fightingtalk_archive.html#108233511824318248

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Patrick Crewdson - student, Auckland
Sunday, April 18, 2004

At Fighting Talk we're pretty brazen about self-publicity. As a twentysomething with very little gold and no pager, I consider it practically my duty to namedrop myself whenever possible. But when I do so, I'm open about it.

http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_fightingtalk_archive.html#108228312348419537

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