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I had to go to Auckland for work, so I included an adjacent weekend in my plans to revisit old Aucklandtown. Saturday night I was going to go to bed but suddenly my roboawesome detectors sensed that out there Something Was Happening. Using the powers of Twitter, I realised that there was a senior citizen punk gig [...] I went to Auckland for the day for work. It was my first proper return to Auckland since I left. On the flight over, as the plane flew over South Auckland on its decent, the two men sitting next to me (strangers who had been chatting) had this conversation. Man 1 (Looking out the window): It’s a [...] I recently signed up for my Wellington library card and couldn’t help compare it with my Auckland library one. Auckland’s got a scenic photo of the city at night, with the sort of orange sky you’d normally only get if there’d been a volcanic eruption in the Philippines or something. The Sky Tower looks so bright [...] In recent days people have been coming out with their stories about their connections or experiences with Sir Edmund Hillary – people who went to school with him or climbed with him or built a school in Nepal with him or saw him at the rugby and got him to autograph a $5 note. Well, [...] I went to the Grey Lynn Park Festival yesterday. It didn’t rain, which is a remarkable achievement. Nice one, the weather. The park was full of people and entertainment, but in a way there was nothing special. A lot of it is the same sort of stuff that is found at other festivals and market days. My [...] 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 the following: “I [...] A few weeks ago I noticed some photocopies of a poem had been pasted up on the usual places along Symonds Street and K Road. I don’t know who wrote the poem or why they pasted many copy of it up in public. Having read it a few times, it seems clunkily written, awkward to read [...] I checked out the brand new underground train station. Having recently travelled on the Paris Metro and London Underground, I now consider myself to be a 100% expert on underground train stations and have made the following observations. It’s cold. This could possibly be due to the fact that the Britomart centre thing is still under [...] Ah, yes. Dance for us, dancing monkey girl. Do a trick for us. Sing us a song. Tell us a jolly. Dance for us, dancing monkey girl. Hi. I was driving along a road today and suddenly a car shot out of a side street, attempting to do a right-hand turn. I had to slam on my [...] There are certain kinds of people who I never see using the buses around Auckland city. Really skinny women with long blonde hair who wear their sunglasses on top of their head are one of those kinds. I went down to the Viaduct Harbour. I object to that name for the simple reason that the viaduct [...] |
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