April 2014 – The Sane Companion

Pregnancy Porn?

April 30, 2014May 20, 2014 KatherineLeave a Comment

On the cover of this month’s Marie Claire is a pregnant Megan Gale, posing naked (but covered). Why? In a normal ‘naked model’ situation, Megan would be on the cover of FHM or some other male entertainment magazine, and voted the world’s sexiest woman. Now she is pregnant, she is handed back to reality, […]

Picturing Killers: The Gow Langsford Debate

April 29, 2014May 6, 2014 Katherine1 Comment

UPDATE 6/5/14: The artist and father of Sio Matalasi have now talked and it has been decided the image is going to remain up at the Gow Langsford Gallery. ____________________________________________________ There is a reasonable squall around the images by artist Jono Rotman on display at Gow Langsford in Auckland, a well-known dealer gallery. The images […]

The Great Food Race Final: Is that pate or parfait?

April 27, 2014May 20, 2014 KatherineLeave a Comment

From crashing through some crop circles holding eggs, to riding a rickshaw, to spotty green suits, The Great Food Race final screened on TV3 tonight with some serious live television cringe issues. The format hit the skids in this 13th and final episode where contestants struggled not with the food task, not with the environment […]

The X Factor: A Quik n Ezy Guide to the Election

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 KatherineLeave a Comment

I am useless at politics really. I know about things like MMP, Oravida and Peter Dunne’s professorial thatch, but on the whole I am pretty undereducated in this department. Makes me perfect to write about it then, right? So, I thought I would revert to clueless mode (Note: there’s three settings on this blog: taking […]

The Final Curtain: Goodbye to Glames and The Great Food Race

April 6, 2014May 20, 2014 Katherine2 Comments

Suddenly on reality food television, things have come to a grinding halt, for two very different reasons. Last Monday, Glynn and James were finally able to dispose of their MasterChef Crocs and mercifully avoid Skoda ownership whilst completing a Survivor Island cooking challenge. I was sad to see them go. In a previous post I […]

Falling Down: I’ve had a really rare day.

April 3, 2014November 21, 2015 KatherineLeave a Comment

I’ve recently been enjoying (and not enjoying) the movies of Michael Douglas. It started with a viewing of Basic Instinct (1992) which I had not seen before. Ugh. It really is a terrible, terrible movie, reminding me a little of the Jackie Collins novels I used to read when I was in sixth form […]