I held the last BBQ of the summer at me flat on Saturday night. I reckon it’s a safe bet it’ll be the last because a) no-one else would be foolish enough to hold a BBQ in the dark and b) summer is bloody over, as yesterday’s monsoon / hurricane in Auckland proved. Anyway, where’s…

3. Young Mums in baseball hats pushing prams at 25 kms per hour. Where are they going so fast? Where? 2. People that work at Real Groovy. You can imagine the interview: Any tattoos? Nope. Any facial piercings? Nah. Freaky-ass down with the kids haircut? No. Get Out Of Here You FREAK! 1. The Warriors…

We WON. We haven’t done that for ages. A cool(ish) $50 to the good.

Katz_ET Originally uploaded by richirvine73. That’s #1 as in ‘number one Katz cartoon published on this blog’, that is. We haven’t won for ages. We’d probably win the drinking, though. Who’s Katz, then?

If you’ve never checked out the Observer Music Monthly, you’re shit. I really miss my London Sunday morning coffee / panadol / Observer mission, there was just so MUCH to read once you’d lugged it home. Thankfully, the Guardian unlimited website is excellent, and you can get all the magazines online. This month I was…

Wallace on bFM‘s breakfast show is running a competition to name your top 5 NZ songs ever. As everyone knows, New Zealand music beings and ends with my personal collection of Flying Nun vinyl, but that aside, here’s mine. 5. Scorpio Girls – Supergroove. You can’t hear the opening guitar riff without flinging a jug…

A few Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, because it’s Friday. Here’s Slate’s version, and an appreciation from Progressive Boink with some quite heart rending commentary. link

You have received a Telecom Photo/Video Message Originally uploaded by richirvine73. This award goes to the guy in this Rover spotted on Contstellation Drive. Yep, that says ‘HO BA1T’. Disturbingly, the use of a ‘1’ instead of an I means there’s someone else cruising around with “HO BAIT’. The mind boggles.

Omaha Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

I really like loud electric guitars and all the dirty-as noises they make. I used to spend hours with distortion pedals trying to make sounds as f**cked up as possible, and the opening chords of Mudhoney’s ‘Sweet young thing ain’t sweet no more’, one of the dirtiest, shittiest sounding bits of distortion ever recorded… well,…