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  • Take your pick

    Take your pick

    There’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...

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  • Must have an irony deficiency

    Must have an irony deficiency

    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...

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  • What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!

    What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!

    A fascinating article about sexual-conflict evolution in ducks.

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  • RAW Thoughts

    RAW Thoughts

    Here is a nice Robert Anton Wilson quote.

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  • Beckless Endangerment

    Beckless Endangerment

    Seriously? "Beckless Endangerment"? Is that the best I could come up with?

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  • Don’t stop the Don’t Stop the Sandman

    Don’t stop the Don’t Stop the Sandman

    Metallica and Journey sexed and Rock Sugar is tremendous.

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  • A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

    A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

    When 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.

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  • Vegetarianism Kills Planet! (…but not really…)

    Vegetarianism Kills Planet! (…but not really…)

    The mispresentation of vegetarianism: a case study in the spread of fallacy.

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  • Live Action Role Protesting

    Live Action Role Protesting

    Whatever 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.

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  • We don’t really know

    We don’t really know

    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...

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  • Help Mira

    Help Mira

    This 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...

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  • A series of events

    A series of events

    To begin with, let me explain that I am looking after a baby bird.

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  • Buy it now.

    Buy it now.

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  • From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 3

    From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 3

    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,...

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  • A person, albeit a man, states his case.

    A person, albeit a man, states his case.

    Avoid gender-specific language unless it is necessary. In particular, avoid terms such as "man", "men" or "mankind" to refer to people in general.

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  • A Trip to the Zoo

    A Trip to the Zoo

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  • Alvin York in his own words

    Alvin York in his own words

    A personal account by Sgt Alvin York of that time he single-handedly captured 132 armed Germans in World War I.

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  • Silence of the Lambs with Laugh Track

    Silence of the Lambs with Laugh Track

    Does what it says on the label. You can thank Conor Roberts for this. Thank him right in the face.

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  • The Fun is Trying to Guess

    The Fun is Trying to Guess

    Why, it's Competition Tuesday!

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  • From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 2

    From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 2

    The 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...

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