Fighting Talk - latest talk
Matt Nippert - apprentice hack, Auckland
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
If infamy is far better than obscurity, I guess I ain't doin' too bad. Arriving at class on Monday, I was surprised to
see this schoolyard diatribe in the letters to the editor pages of the AUT student publication Debate. The editor is one
Rebecca Williams, a graduate of the course I'm enrolled in.
Tom Goulter - Your Fucking Khakis, Christchurch
Sunday, May 23, 2004
News item:
Fight Club to be released on major consoles in 2004
Instruction Manual: Fight Club
By Chuck Pahlaniuk
Getting Started
Set up your Playstation2 Computer Entertainment System according to the instructions in its Instruction Manual.
These instructions you've read a million times before, only they have to put them at the start of every Instruction
Manual, because there's always someone out there willing to do the wrong thing and get hurt.
Or, worse, sue.
Michael Appleton - student, Vinezac
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Much has been written by historians of sport about where certain games come from; though, this sometimes seems an
exercise in futility, not least because so many of the early writers on sport were keenly promoting their versions of
particular games as the authoritative one of the time. If you take the sightseeing bus tour in Cambridge, you are told
that this town is where association football - or soccer, as antipodeans like to call it - was invented. How so? Well,
when the various clubs at the time got together and tried to agree on a common set of rules so that they could play each
other, the ones chosen - the bus tour guide intoned - were those invented in Cambridge.