Lyndon Hood - presentee, Lower Hutt
Thursday, January 18, 2007
So one rather merry Christmas present was the Axis of Evil Fingerpuppets, starring Dubya, Kim Jong Il, the Ayatollah K (sadly no President A) and - most relevant for my immediate purposes - Saddam Hussein (other sets and the updated Axis here). The images that follow were made at the time but I think by the time they arrived at Scoop global headquarters they already had actual pictures.
Another present I'll boast about was The Daily Show's controversial America (The Book), a publicaton which I first came across on the shelves of the Lower Hutt Public Library.
I just thought you might like to know that, by my count, it mentions New Zealand not less than twice.
A short piece entitled "If I Were President By Ed Helms", containing such lines as:
We also have almost two-thirds of a page in the "The Rest of the World" section. I could actually type out all 80-odd words (excluding placenames on the map) of "New Zealand: Australia's Canada (Australia has three pages), but that's not the way we do things round here. Suffice to say it mentions Lord of the Rings and sheep. And Maoris [sic - how mortifying for them]. The important thing is that we are now famous.
We share our page with the South Pacific Islands.
So anyway, right now, I won't discourse an adaptation of one social models of crime (discussed in Phillip Ball's fascinating and discursive book on physics-based social modelling Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another which he seems to summarise in this paper [PDF]) might suggest it would take a disproportionate amount of force to bring order to Iraq. No surprises there, I guess. Mind you, even this "surge" of troops won't really add up to more than there have been before. Time to stop digging, I say.
And, for the time being, I won't be publishing any of the pictures of various alarmed-looking birds that I poked my camera at in the South Island. So here's some figerpuppet snuff:
Before
![unhung saddam fingerpuppet](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sqdxC9nhU9L_4r6UgYvELZvV_1lvyZ5xSfmBrvu0mAwNoKw7FYhM-c-KiRvddd3GfG31Njyw3hfCFM8DTPPVrINRnJmvJfp_zwXN4ajfaVvaF7OLS8l8uK=s0-d)
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During
![hanging saddam fingerpuppet, with dubya helping](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v3qAUJlQG32oi8vNenFPPlImGYh-DYWrDjTDQBjNLNBCey2IUMrtrVVsl0R00t3EA8FVCKSKDQzlrq643J7W7CLCrqn2uEZdzWiDbgD8N0GcsSVDojyZJNlA=s0-d)
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After
![hanged saddam fingerpuppet](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uZoU6BSxum0c9YOR3OVzOQkAQ0JC6GQM8EzA9J7FY9C8G9Co6uQd6DRbokLfUfrLhe2SqMTQXzJGv_6TDZm3IVCIs3jXvuOud22E1395H6OndTlSk7wJkV=s0-d)
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All going to plan, you may see more of these guys.
Another present I'll boast about was The Daily Show's controversial America (The Book), a publicaton which I first came across on the shelves of the Lower Hutt Public Library.
I just thought you might like to know that, by my count, it mentions New Zealand not less than twice.
A short piece entitled "If I Were President By Ed Helms", containing such lines as:
I believe every American should have health insurance, so I would write a law giving it to them - and then I'd sign it right away. I also don't think people should have to struggle to make ends meet, so I would fix the economy.has the following tagline:
Ed Helms was the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1994 to 1996.I mean, I can understand a mistake with the electoral cycles but getting the wrong person is something else. No wonder it was controversial
We also have almost two-thirds of a page in the "The Rest of the World" section. I could actually type out all 80-odd words (excluding placenames on the map) of "New Zealand: Australia's Canada (Australia has three pages), but that's not the way we do things round here. Suffice to say it mentions Lord of the Rings and sheep. And Maoris [sic - how mortifying for them]. The important thing is that we are now famous.
We share our page with the South Pacific Islands.
So anyway, right now, I won't discourse an adaptation of one social models of crime (discussed in Phillip Ball's fascinating and discursive book on physics-based social modelling Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another which he seems to summarise in this paper [PDF]) might suggest it would take a disproportionate amount of force to bring order to Iraq. No surprises there, I guess. Mind you, even this "surge" of troops won't really add up to more than there have been before. Time to stop digging, I say.
And, for the time being, I won't be publishing any of the pictures of various alarmed-looking birds that I poked my camera at in the South Island. So here's some figerpuppet snuff:
Before
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During
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After
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All going to plan, you may see more of these guys.