Though, now I do dream of a hoodie lined with soft, glimmering silvery silk. *Shing*, *shii-iing* oh how it would sneakily catch the light.

To conclude, the poem is excellent. It makes me understand the hobby much more than when you first mentioned it to me.

I’m so jealous of the contributions you’ve had so far, but then I imagine that you do go out and ask for the contribution…

So Christchurch late-afternoon in winter.

I think that´s one of the problems of today, informed about a myriad of things from every different angle but in the end we´re passively taking in information of which we don´t know what to make. With how powerless many people feel in this age, I think there is need for media as information-entertainment- and -activism.

¨Too much information¨ if you just present it as ¨information¨. I do think it´s more of a matter of how you present it. It´s too much for most people if you have to collect this information left, right and centre and build the horrifying picture yourself. What I had in mind with that joke about the TV show, is if there could be a show based on this theme that is done in the style of Fair Go or Target. Where you show how normal and relevant these seemingly abstract or serious matters (consumer affairs, rights etc.) actually are, and where you have real continuity, where you develop this kind of conscience in viewers. People talk about things that they´ve watched in programmes like these the next day… Talk about it one time and it´s sad, it´s scary, it´s horrifying. Talk about it on a regular basis and it starts to matter, and because you start feeling like you understand it you can face it.

My centimes.

Are people in NZ starting to complain though? To the businesses or to the government? It´s all a big tangled web of economic interests and politics and chickenshitness I know, but everything has to start somewhere… Presumably you learnt about these things through some form of media?

You need a grumpy old woman TV show