More on the raids

The oddest story in NZ this year has rolled on without much of an increase in clarity. The DomPost led with the words “Napalm Bomb” the other day, although there don’t actually seem to be any napalm bombs anywhere. Nevertheless, homegrown Maori terrorists – man, this a dream story for the NZ media and they’ll run with it as long as they can.
For my money, the best responses to the whole mad affair are at Hard News and No Right Turn. Check ’em.
I watched the Breakfast Club the other night. What a fantastic film, even though when Ally Sheedy emerged from her Molly-Ringwald-induced prettification Malc and I turned to each other and said “I preferred her when she was emo”, or words to that effect.
In other news, still marking marking.

5 thoughts on “More on the raids”

  1. When I showed The Breakfast Club to one of my classes, they all burst out laughing when she emerged from the make-over with cheesy music.
    What counted as being made pretty back then does not work so much anymore. Few of us could probably undergo a Ringwald makeover and not be the subject of ridicule afterwards.
    The movie actually doesn’t date too badly apart from that. Everyone still always likes Bender the best.

  2. If it wasn’t for that makeover – and more, the fact that Emilio is too dense to notice that he fancies her before she’s Mollied up – it would be almost the perfect teen movie.

  3. Odd that napalm is prominent. I don’t even pretend to be an expert in insurgent weaponry, but napalm doesn’t strike me as a very practical means of hurt for the rebellious. Difficult to handle and deliver without scoring an own goal I would have thought. Historically mostly it has tended to be dropped from aircraft. You don’t hear of it being used much in a terroristic sense. Other stuff is simpler and more effective probably.
    Breakfast Club RULZ!

  4. If Ally hadn’t been Ringwalded, and Emilio hadn’t been too dense to realise he was atteacted to her till she was, it wouldn’t have been perfect, because it would be less realistic. We’re talking about *teenagers* here. And I think this realism is more apparent now that the Ringwald look is out of fashion.

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