Earlier in the week, I was part of a conversation where someone asks what everyone’s plans for the weekend are. I responded, “I’m going to see Blam Blam Blam play at the King’s Arms!” And everyone looked at me with blank stares. I tried to explain, “They’re a band. They were first around in the [...]
A couple of my internet amigos have a mysterious art project webpage, the enticingly titled I Wrote This For You, with the even more enticing URL pleasefindthis.blogspot.com. It consists of daily posts of a lovely photo matched with words of wisdom, such as this one: The Far You got yourself up there. You can get [...]
Man, this whole Mt Eden gang thing is getting out of hand. You may recall that, despite recruitment problems, I am a member of the N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S 630, a bad-ass gang who refuses to recycle and uses more plastic bags than is really necessary. And then I became alerted to the presence of another gang, the [...]
I went to Brazil cafe this afternoon before work. There was a sign up on the counter announcing that K Road icon Brazil would be closing for good on September 30! Whoa, there! I will quickly make a list of reasons why Brazil is (not yet was) lovely. The coffee. The peeling paint on the [...]
Peter Dub Dot Dash has announced the nominees for the worst NZ album cover of the year, such as this gem: Hollie Smith – Self titled. “I think the Hollie Smith cover is shockingly bad..what a lousy drawing and then that’s the best part.” I’d never noticed it before, but the Hollie Smith album cover [...]
Mt Eden Village is usually quite a dull place. Sometimes a wide-load vehicle will travel through at 3am with orange lights flashing, and that’s quite exciting, but it’s generally all goody-good in the hood. But late this morning I was lying in bed when I became aware that a helicopter was flying somewhere nearby – [...]
It’s a Saturday night and I’m having a quiet weekend, so I thought I’d go through my referer logs to see what people googled that led them to my website. There are a lot of words on my website, and sometimes Google leads people to pages that don’t have anything to do with what they’re [...]
I finally made it along to Craftwerk, a semi-regular alternative craft fair type event, usually held in St Kevin’s Arcade. I mainly wanted to go along to see Annette’s Nut and Bee goodies. She’s been busy working over the last couple of year, turning her supercute designs into things like writing paper, badges, magnets, and [...]
Today, for the first time ever, I paid attention to the lyrics to the verses of Ray Columbus and the Invaders‘ 1964 hit “She’s a Mod“. The song is about a guy who fancies a girl and he’s somehow promised to buy her some clothes, but she’s going through all these different fashion styles which [...]
Over on PA System there was a discussion about the Rugby World Cup. There was mention that Justin Marshall felt that New Zealand rugby players weren’t showered with the same adulation that rugby players in England apparently are. I commented, which was hilarious because I don’t actually know anything about rugby: People haven’t moved into [...]