As soon as it was discovered that the nation’s hottest youth television presenters and the nation’s hottest young soap stars were rehearsing their formation dancing in the caff, Justine suddenly realised that she needed a cup of tea. Quickly sculling back the Diet Coke that remained in her cup, she made her way down to [...]
My feet hurt. Actually my legs hurt. Well, come to think of it, my entire body aches. Ah, the Grey Lynn Park Festival. I’ve lived in Grey Lynn twice and on both occasions I never went to the festival, but this year, yo, I made the effort. I arrived just in time to see the [...]
Tonight, in or around 9.30, 9.45-ish: TV1: The final of the fourth series of “Six Feet Under”. TV2: The first of the new season of “Eating Media Lunch”. TV3: The final episode of “Sex and the City”. Prime: Another good episode of “Little Britain”. That kind of programming is cruel, cruel, cruel. I only have [...]
Peace 2 my dead homie Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He be up in heaven now with his peeps Tupac, Aaliyah, Jam Master Jay, Lisa Left-Eye, Notorious B.I.G and Karen Carpenter. I’m kind of annoyed I crashed my car now. I did it a few weeks ago. It didn’t involve anything cool like bring drunk or high [...]
Right, let’s see if I can’t type something meaningful about the Netguide awards. It turns out there were freebies, namely booze, meat and Netguides. What, no iPods? What a rip off. I turned up incredibly unfashionably late and missed the awards ceremony, but I can reveal the following: When Idolblog won the ‘best youth site’ [...]
I accidentally won a ticket to tomorrow’ night’s Netguide awards. The Netguide awards are funny. They’re sponsored by the very same companies whose websites usually end up winning the awards. And when people do win the awards, well, they put out a press release but award certificates don’t tend to take pride of place on [...]
Yesterday I was walkin’ the mean streets of Mt Eden when I saw a couple of young men walking down the street. One of them was wearing Burberry-patterned hat and I realised that, yes, Chav culture has made it from the UK to the NZ, and not a moment too soon. Last night I went [...]
Walking along K Road this evening when I saw a homemade sign stuck up on a lamppost saying “WHERE IS LEE HARVEY OSWALD WHEN YOU NEED HIM?” Yeah, I bet there are many people out there wishing for a good old-fashioned political assassin to kind a grassy knoll or schoolbook depository with a view. But [...]
ITEM: I went for a run around the block before work today. This is the first time I have ever done this, but if middle-aged people can be up and running at 6.30am, then I can manage it at 8.00am. It was a a lot less traumatic than I imagined it. In fact, it was [...]
I’m not sure why, but I’ve signed up for National Novel Writing Month this year. I did it in 2001 and 2002, but I gave it a miss last year. However, this year will be the first year I’m doing it with a job to tend to as well. The working title is “Hello Dr [...]