New Year
In New Zealand, New Year’s Eve begins at midday on the 30th. That was today. This is signaled by whoever has fronted with the keg. Once the keg had been tapped, it’s a bit like the opening ceremony of… Continue Reading
Month: December 2014
Magazine Round-Up: Angelina’s Facial Shame
Continuing on with this summer’s inadvertent series about women’s magazine reporting, I came across another strange article about Angelina Jolie, the time she went out on the town with cocaine all down the side of her face. That’s right, you… Continue Reading
The ‘Hands-On’ Dad
I’ve been reading a few of the women’s magazines these holidays. To catch up on a year of celebrity gossip, I purchased a bulk box of them from Trade Me, and boy have I learned a thing or two… Continue Reading
Worst Christmas Movies
1. Christmas With the Kranks Bollock-bad movie starring between-gig Tim Allen and Jamie-Lee Curtis. Just awful. You can’t get this 1 1/2 hours back in your life. However, if for some reason it’s all that there is on from… Continue Reading
Nicky Hager defends Dirty Politics … again
So right now on RNZ, Kathryn Ryan is giving another balanced viewpoint about the timing, implication, validity and methods behind Dirty Politics. Cough. What seems to have come out of the whole saga is that the Nats and supporters position… Continue Reading
Do I Know it’s Christmas?
I’ve just seen a cartoon gift box ‘rapping’* about Christmas on New Zealand television. I’ve seen an electric machine that catches many, many snapper while the family sit in directors’ chairs, looking on impatiently. I’ve seen adult onesies. Nothing new,… Continue Reading
Madonna Feminism
“Remembering that Madonna is a construct; a very talented chameleon who spends her life on the lookout for a weakness in the industry to exploit.” I am struggling to see how posing partially clothed is a form of female empowerment… Continue Reading
Best Christmas Presents for 2014: The Fishing Grenade
I was relaxed about fishing processes until the other day I saw an advert for a machine that brings you fish. Not long ago my son who is four asked me to take him fishing. I accepted. I imagined that… Continue Reading
Songs for Tem
The other night I lay in bed listening to the National Programme and suddenly, the sound of Temuera Morrison doing It’s Not Unusual came about the room, like spirit. I’m pretty sure this album has been around awhile, but it… Continue Reading
School Reports – Compliance Hell
Compliance is a kind of hell that doesn’t live in the bowels of the earth, it lives on your doorstep, in your letterbox and, at this time of year, in your child’s school bag in the form of a school… Continue Reading