I was at the Hikoi. I still can't deciding whether I was participating, watching, or just practicing with my digital camera. I didn't do any marching as such. I can tell you that what bought me out on that alarmingly windy lunchtime was the strong sense that it would be a huge event which I would kick myself if I missed. I wasn't disappointed.
http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_fightingtalk_archive.html#108424773391840459

As part of the play I'm in this week, it's been my task to seek out old newspapers from the time and place - Australia, 1960 - the play is set. Unable to find actual, real Australian newspapers, I've had to settle for copies of The Weekly News, a Christchurch-based paper. One piece caught my eye:
FIRE AND RATS EAT HISTORY
http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_fightingtalk_archive.html#108406698926123194

If this is three or more hours old when you read it, NZ will have a new Idol. Good for us. He'll either be Ben or Michael, and he'll have been voted for by thousands and thousands of "people", by which I mean "kids wasting cell phone credit they didn't even pay for". The Edge will start playing his version of the new single "Can't Take That Away", and it will probably go to number one for a couple of weeks. There'll be an album, complete with in-store signings at a Sounds near you. Then, suddenly, nothing else will happen.
http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_fightingtalk_archive.html#108416491052771017

ENDS