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He’s almost too NICE to be a comedian. He came on with a big smile that never wavered, even when a god squadder took vocal exception to his (really, very inoffensive) ruminations on religion. In response, he sung a ‘typical hymn’ – “God is Great, we’re all shit”. Bull’s eye, I think he may have…

– Every week, since about oh, 1998, The Onion has made me laugh. That’s a lot of laughter, and this warning that people’s drunkenness does not impair the Alligators’ ability to inflict enormous physical harm made me spray the screen.– Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of the 50 worst songs ever recorded. Was compiled before…

No matter what you think of Jamie ‘aw-wight? Luv-ah-lee’ Oliver, the guy can really cook. Inspired by a quick rifle through one of his books, I whipped this up last night: First, get: 1 Chicken Breast1 strip Bacon1/2 Red Onion, cut up1 Green Pepper, cut up1 Red skinned potato (cut up and microwaved for a…

We WON the quiz last night. This seems to be happening more often. Interesting points to emerge:– There were only three of us in the team. – We got out to a huge lead in the first half, then steadily got crapper as we went, but somehow managed to hang on and get into the…

– Rob Manuel, co-founder of B3TA is an inspirational kind of guy, as you can see. I’ve been thinking about creativity and burnout a lot recently, you will find all the answers you need here. Possibly. – I’m a WICKED procrastinator. I sat down to write this blog post and… and… Hey that was COOL,…

…..aaaaaaand we’re back. BTW, how come blogger’s spellcheck doesn’t recognise ‘blog’? I think we should be told.

Blogging is huge – there’s an endless array of stats out there about how many there are, how many are being created every day, how many people are reading them, how the traditional media outlets should be crapping themselves, etc etc etc. A lot of blogs posts it seems are about, well, blogging. I didn’t…

This is class. I didn’t like The Life Aquatic, but I’m a fan of Anderson’s films generally, esp. The Royal Tenenbaums and Bottle Rocket. He’s got his own style alright (geeky obsession with detail and using the same actors all the time) and this ad is like a WA film in miniature. link

Napier06 042 Originally uploaded by richirvine73. Napier (short) report:– Craggy Range vineyard is a spectacular place to have lunch– Te Mata peak could do with some rails on the road to the top– Hastings gets a really raw deal being next to picturesque Napier – no wonder they hate each other– Kim Crawford winery is…

Having leapt the 30 hurdle (ahem) a couple of years ago, I was interested to read this article, 59 things a man should never do after 30. I don’t agree with all of it (I quite like hacky sack and air drumming, and what’s wrong with fireworks?), but they’re basically on the right track. Let’s…