Robyn Gallagher

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Month: July, 2006

Happy New Coin Day

My wallet is in a state of disarray. When I bought some milk from the dairy this morning, I got one of those newfangled 50 cent coins with the change. “Here is a new coin,” the dairy man said to me in case I was about to erupt in rage and accuse him of short-changing [...]

Synonym spam

I ♥ synonym spam. It’s the kind where certain words that trigger anti-spam filters have been replaced with synonyms to try and bypass it. In this case it sort of worked. It got through the anti-spam filtering on the mail server, but my email client recognised it as spam. But I’m glad, because this one [...]

Seven reasons

Because it is Saturday and there is nothing else to do. — People hassle Britney Spears and say she is dumb and a bad mother, but actually I think she is actually quite smart. She and I have a lot in common because I am actually only exactly three months older than her and I [...]

Grande laughs

I saw Ben Elton performing stand-up at the Aotea Centre tonight. It was a really enjoyable night’s comedy. I want to attempt to describe the comedy, but I won’t because I know that my retelling a) won’t be funny, and b) will probably ruin the jokes for future viewers of the DVD (there’d better be [...]

The past, present and future

At the moment I am officially celebrating two things in the world of pop: 1. The 10th anniversary of the release of the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” Me and my beatnik friends weren’t sure what to make of this when it came out. I mean, they were, like, a “manufactured” pop group, and therefore evil (but [...]

Great Blend photos

Interested parties can out examine photographic evidence of the Great Blend. Seeing them reminds me of when I got up on stage it was suddenly a bit hot under the lights, so I took off my jacket. Then suddenly it got cold, but by then the discussion had started so I didn’t want to disrupt [...]

Everyone’s space

I had a rather good time at the Karajoz Great Blend last night. I arrived to hear that due to the fog at Wellington airport, guest speaker danah boyd’s flight had delayed, but that she was – probably – in the air. I had a sausage (organic) and a beer (Monteith’s Golden) and said hi [...]