My iPod is magic. I was planning on buying some cherries after work from the fruit shop at the village. I got off the bus at the nearby bus stop and walked along to the fruit shop. Just at that moment, my iPod randomly chose to play the Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Cherry Came Too”. [...]
It’s a census year this year, which I find rather exciting. Back in the last census year, 2001, I managed to be in the right places at the right times for both the New Zealand census and the Australian one. I like to think that somehow I’ve contributed to some sort of funding for a [...]
Well, it looks like National Radio aren’t going to archive the 3D Radio show that I was on back on New Years Eve, but fortunately one of my co-panellists, James from Noizyland, has kindly hosted the whole shows as a podcast (i.e. an mp3) for your listening pleasure. [Oh - it's not there any more. [...]
It’s a late Saturday afternoon in the toilets at a multiplex. A woman in her 50s has entered and gone into a cubicle to have a wee. Soon after her 20-something daughter returns from the ticket area and also enters a cubicle. Daughter: Mum? Mum? Mum: Yeah. Daughter: King Kong’s on at 5 o’clock, so [...]
It’s completely obscene to be up at 9am on New Year’s Day. I should be in bed, somewhere near a beach, asleep. I have to work today, and just like last year, I picked New Years Day over Christmas Day. So yesterday I did the panel on National Radio. It was lots of fun. The [...]