Robyn Gallagher

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Month: October, 2004

The Lady in the Second-Hand Shop and the Man Who Looks Like the Guy from that Garden Show

A One-Act Play The play is set in a second-hand shop in a small New Zealand coastal town. It’s a long weekend, so the town is full of visitors. One such visitor is MAN. He has come into the second-hand shop and has spotted an item he wishes to purchase (a driftwood sculpture clock, if [...]

Welcome to the jungle

This Is Not A Love Shop, on Karangahape Road, has an utterly magnificent window display at the moment. It’s this life-size diorama of W. Axl Rose live in concert. It captures Axl at the height of his fame and glory. I’ve been especially detouring past there as much as I can just to check it [...]

It’s nineteen-ninety-something all over again

The dairy down the road had a TV on and there was something about New Zealand Fashion Week on it. Some runway action was being shown with a couple of ladies giving some commentary that sounded oddly like sports commentary. I wasn’t really paying attention to it, but then suddenly one sentence jumped out at [...]

Frequently Arksed Questions

I got some fish ‘n’ chips and almost squirted my tomato sauce on top of a small news item called “Ellis apologises for comment”. It said that Paul Ellis was sorry for the distress he caused you. OMG! WTF?! Yeah, he finally apologised. Cool, huh? What distress did he cause? I got this rash. Wanna [...]

Whatever happened to LaShonda?

The Name Popularity page is horribly addictive. It gives you charts and rankings of the popularity of names over the last 100 years. Enter a name and it will tell you how popular Britney, Lawanda or Gladys were as names over the years. It’s based on American statistics, so it is skewed to American culture, [...]