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Posted on March 5, 2010 | No CommentsThere’s an ad for TVNZ OnDemand at the moment that goes something like this: “On your deathbed, what kind of life do you want to remember? How about one where you’re surrounded by beautiful people, everyone listens to what you have to say, and you’re... -
Must have an irony deficiency
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsIn 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... -
What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No CommentsA fascinating article about sexual-conflict evolution in ducks. -
RAW Thoughts
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsHere is a nice Robert Anton Wilson quote. -
Beckless Endangerment
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsSeriously? "Beckless Endangerment"? Is that the best I could come up with? -
Don’t stop the Don’t Stop the Sandman
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsMetallica and Journey sexed and Rock Sugar is tremendous. -
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
Posted on February 15, 2010 | 1 CommentWhen flipbooks take three weeks to complete and 2100 pages to fill. 17-year-old Jamie Hall has too much time on his hands and has run out of ballpoint pens. -
Vegetarianism Kills Planet! (…but not really…)
Posted on February 14, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe mispresentation of vegetarianism: a case study in the spread of fallacy. -
Live Action Role Protesting
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsWhatever you're doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn't think so. -
We don’t really know
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsLast 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... -
Help Mira
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsThis may only be read by RSS feeders (love you), but if you’re in Auckland, you might want to check out the Mira Reil fundraiser charity auction at the Northern Steamship this coming Tuesday. Mira’s 22 and has been diagnosed with a particularly nasty fucker... -
A series of events
Posted on February 4, 2010 | 4 CommentsTo begin with, let me explain that I am looking after a baby bird. -
Buy it now.
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From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 3
Posted on February 2, 2010 | 1 CommentThe 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,... -
A person, albeit a man, states his case.
Posted on February 2, 2010 | 1 CommentAvoid gender-specific language unless it is necessary. In particular, avoid terms such as "man", "men" or "mankind" to refer to people in general. -
A Trip to the Zoo
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Alvin York in his own words
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsA personal account by Sgt Alvin York of that time he single-handedly captured 132 armed Germans in World War I. -
Silence of the Lambs with Laugh Track
Posted on January 27, 2010 | 1 CommentDoes what it says on the label. You can thank Conor Roberts for this. Thank him right in the face. -
The Fun is Trying to Guess
Posted on January 26, 2010 | 8 CommentsWhy, it's Competition Tuesday! -
From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 2
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 5 CommentsThe earliest example of this sonnet I could find comes from January 2008. Given, however, the reference to the Swedish Rounding System, it must have been composed sometime prior to 31 October 2006. It has all the elements needed for a great poem: Supermarkets, dairy...
