So insufferably precious
Precious – the movie that had champagne socialists all gooey in 2009 – finally found its way to my DVD drive the other night.
It was disappointing.
Precious – the movie that had champagne socialists all gooey in 2009 – finally found its way to my DVD drive the other night.
It was disappointing.
In an old Looney Tunes cartoon, Daffy Duck, playing a sheriff, holds a gun to a crim’s face who proceeds to bite the gun in half. “Must not have had his iron today,” Daffy says. He pronounced iron EYE-run. That always made me laugh. So I would like to talk briefly about our country’s irony [...]
Last Sunday at around 6pm I was sitting in a fish and chip shop in Tairua waiting for my order. It was humid and everyone in the place was wilting. A few flies buzzed around. The late day sun was pouring in through the front window making me sweat. A group of people entered the [...]
The following from 1999 is probably my first attempt at writing pastoral verse. It’s in the from of an eclogue or bucolic. It laments the succumbing of my once peaceful patch of earth to suburban soullessness, like every other paved-over, nondescript bit of sprawl. Yes, that’s right… I remember when all this was trees. It [...]