The Checks played at the King’s Arms on Thursday night to celebrate the launch of their debut album, Hunting Whales. I’d only seen the Checks play once before, about two and a half years ago, at a Public Address Great Blend. At the time I gushed, “the Checks started to play and my entire life [...]
Another quiet weekend, so it’s time to take another look in my referer logs to see what people have been searching for that’s lead them here. free tame iti t-shirt This search showed up the day after the police raids and his arrest. If you’re looking for a T-shirt that urgently, you’re better off fashioning [...]
John Banks has been re-elected mayor of Auckland, in what was the most underwhelming election I can remember. I celebrated by watching Flying Nun recording artists S.P.U.D’s 1990 pop hit “Breakdown Town”. (YouTube doesn’t realise how apt that thumbnail shot is.)
A few years ago I wrote about a disturbing farm safety film I’d watched when I was at school. At the time my memory was little hazy, but I remembered it being a really sinister and gruesome story of a group of children who visit a farm, and one by one, they all die. Well, [...]
This is my cellphone. It’s a Nokia 1100, which, Wikipedia notes, “has been specifically designed for developing countries: its keypad and front face have been designed to be as dustproof as possible, and its sides are non-slip for humid weather.” (This is obviously not a world class cellphone.) I don’t live in the developing world [...]
I don’t really know much about rugby. I’ve only ever been to one rugby game, which was in 1990, when I wagged my fifth form typing class to see the Hillcrest High first XV play some visiting school. I remember being vaguely impressed by those “line out” things. 17 years later, I haven’t even watched [...]
I finally got around to filling in my ballot for the Auckland City Council elections. With so many different things to vote for and so many different people to vote for, I went through the candidate profile booklet and started eliminating candidates based on their little blurbs. I will not vote for candidates who said [...]