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In which robYn channels her inner kanYe.

Famous hip hop star and slatted-sunglasses-wearer Kanye West has a blog where he notoriously writes in all-caps and in a particular rambling style. As Mr West is the dopeness, I have decided to now write in this style in order to make my “blog” more attractive to the lucrative 18 to 35 youth demographic.

THERE HAVE [...]

Not so live any more, is it just?

It’s been over 18 months since I stopped writing stuff on my LiveJournal account, and switched back to my personal website, upgraded to the superdeluxxxe 2.0 version running WordPress.

I had imported all my LiveJournal entries into WordPress, but I kept the originals up on LJ because I hadn’t been able to import the comments. I [...]

Shed is dead

You know that “art” thing, right? It’s landscape and portrait realist paintings, and anything else isn’t art, ok?

Currently displayed on Te Papa’s outdoor Sculpture Terrace is a piece by Ronnie van Hout called A loss, again

It comprises of two replicas of his father’s old garden shed. He’s taken a mould of the real shed and [...]

Oh yeah, that time I went to New Caledonia in September last year

Last year in September, I managed to find some nice cheap flights and accommodation in New Caledonia, so I went there for a short holiday. This is how it went down.

Tuesday, 9 September

After spending the night in Auckland, I flew on to New Caledonia. It’s a nice short flight – only two and a half [...]

Current Obsessions

UK Celebrity Big Brother

Regular readers will know of my weakness for the televisual delights of Brother who is Big. Currently screening on Channel 4 in the UK is series six of Celebrity Big Brother, but those of us who don’t live in the UK can stay up-to-date with it via the medium of YouTube.

The series [...]

Twitter ate my 2008

I was going to go a year-in-review post, but I couldn’t remember what I’d done all year. So I consulted Twitter and then I realised: Twitter ate my 2008.

I joined Twitter in 2007, but it wasn’t until 2008 that I started tweeting a lot. Now it’s just one of those things I do that’s both [...]