2008
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Literary douche of the week
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2 min read
You know, sometimes you read an article so paper-cut irritating you have to carry it to your computer and type it out. Today, it’s the Sunday Star-Times’ ‘Bedside Table’ spot, that interviews well-known New Zealanders on their reading. Today it’s The Edge FM’s Vaughan Smith. The most overrated book you’ve read? The Babysitter Club series.…
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Dress you up in my love
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Here’s a great article on fans who dress up like their idols from Chuck Klosterman. It is perfectly normal to love the music of Rod Stewart, and not unnatural to feel that appreciating Never A Dull Moment says something essential about who you are; it is, however, pretty goddamn weird to try physically to resemble…
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Fishing was awesome
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Foo Fighters – Vector Arena 06 May 2008
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2 min read
I went along to Vector Area on Tuesday night to see the Foos. I’d kind of drifted away in recent years, thinking they’d gone too ‘we are SERIOUS rock band’ – case in point: compare this to this. Rock snob that I am, it puts me off that too many people that buy NickelBack records…
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A cynical experiment – LOL!
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1 min read
I’m fascinated by people that make money from nothing on auction sites – like this guy flogging a Casio Vl-1 ‘possessed by Satan’. So… a weekend tidy up yielded an innocuous cheese grater – and I decided to write a ‘hard case’ ad on TradeMe, taking full advantage of current hoo-hah over rising food prices.…
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Link
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Via B3ta
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Katz cartoons
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1 min read
Katz is my pub quiz team’s logo (blogger-wordpress poorly formatted backstory here).
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Get serious about lunch
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1 min read
Like eating? Like eating in Auckland? Like eating stuff that’s not crap? Like paying feck-all for it? If you answered ‘yes’to all the above, you need to check out Auckland Cheap Eats Reviews – fine lunching for the tight of fist. My mate is reviewing Auckland’s out of the way eateries, dish by dish. My…
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What’s your top Auckland song?
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Cross-posted from the New-Look Aucklandista When I type ‘Auckland’ into my itunes I get exactly, ah, no results. Alright, there’s the Muttonbird’s ‘Dominion Road‘, a great song ruined by homesick ex-pats, and that punk-AK’79 affair about jumping off Grafton Bridge. Dublin must be shitting itself. We live in a very pretty city, team, so how…