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Me in other places

In aucklandista, internet, meta on 7 July 2008 with no comments

Here’s what I’ve been up to while neglecting this here blog.
I thundered in on the recent truck protest, and the Auckland International Film Festival on the Aucklandista
Graeme from Sportsfreak kindly published my nostalgic wallowing on the day we beat the Aussies in 1999
I did a couple of awesome (ahem) cartoons on sportreview.net.nz: Calling 101 and [...]

What’s your top Auckland song?

In aucklandista, music, new zealand on 28 April 2008 with no comments

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 come there’s [...]

Links

In aucklandista, links, music on 25 March 2008 with no comments

I’ve just thundered in with a coupla posts on The Aucklandista - Two short points on Auckland bookshops, and I want to ride it where I like. I reckon you should get over there and read ‘em, it’s heaps better than this blog.
Are you too nice? Do you only say ‘no’ to questions like ‘you [...]

Cross post - Open your own 80s video shop

In aucklandista, film, score! report on 18 February 2008 with 1 comment

The original is on the Aucklandista site
Remember video shops? Rewinding, fixing the tracking, due back by 12? As a lad, I’d spend hours in the corner video shop trawling the likes of Joysticks and Brewsters’s Millions to find the perfect tape for that weekend’s slumber party (it was a more innocent time back then, team).
If [...]

Cross post: Fisking the Herald on the Northern Busway

In aucklandista on 7 February 2008 with no comments

You can read the original over on the Aucklandista
For Aucklanders, traffic is big, right up there with property prices and ‘How’s my hair?’. THAT big. So when I moved to the Shore (love makes you do crazy things, team), getting to work weighed heavily on my mind. I mean, Shore traffic is crap, right? The [...]