Somewhere Along The Way…

Never let it be said that New Zealanders shy away from controversy. Hell Pizza, the company that made a name for itself by distributing free condoms as part of an advertising campaign, among many other irreverant gimmicks, has once again come under fire for a billboard featuring a picture of President George W. Bush next […]

Like any good neighbors, Aucklanders and Wellingtonians have always seemed to foster a healthy sort of competitiveness - whose harbour offers the best views, whose flat whites are better, whose cricket team kicks more arse, whose public transit system sucks worse. Being in such close proximity to one another, the sprawling business hub to the […]

Um…
For those of you in the Auckland region who happened to feel those violent tremors a few minutes ago…have no fear: it was not an earthquake, as you may have initially concluded, but rather was nothing more than my INEXORABLE AWESOMENESS SHAKING THE EARTH TO ITS CORE.
…Okay, actually, it was an earthquake.
Cool!?

A few days ago, the fine folks over at Wellingtonista gave a nostalgic look back at last year’s 2006 Wellingtonista Awards, in which a Tiki bar was edged out by an infinitely more practical (and boring) light rail system as the most desperately-needed addition to the capital city - man, you guys have really got […]

As contestants in the Trans Tasman surf test gear up for the second-annual competition this Friday in Piha, organizers are predicting a repeat of last year’s spectacular and occasionally dangerous ocean swells, which measured up to 10 feet during the 2006 contest and wrought havoc on surfers and support crew alike. Piha may look tranquil […]

Take heart, fellow Americans: according to this Herald article, it seems that we are not universally loathed and/or feared throughout the world, despite our Heroic Leader’s efforts to the contrary. Unfortunately, if you want to find a country whose inhabitants actually still hold the United States in high regard, you’ll have to go pretty far […]

If I were to pick a single blog post to be the best, most succinct embodiment of the “Meanwhile In NYC” category…it would be this one. You have to admit, the guy’s logic is flawless.
Well done, well done my comrades - carry on!

In an interview with CNN’s Ed Henry today, President Bush brushed off any uncertainty regarding his claims that the government of Iran is supplying the Iraqi insurgency with explosives. The logic he used to make this assertion was strangely familiar: “Ed, we know [that Iranian-supplied weapons are] there, we know they’re provided by the Quds […]

I am quietly slipping on my Nerd Hat for a moment and directing you to this interesting (if somewhat dry and convoluted) discussion of the effects of the H-1B visa class on the American labor force - the real good stuff is in the comments down below the main article, which provide a healthy, juicy […]

Okay, so I’m a little afraid that the following rant/plea for help will end up jinxing me, considering my grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s and my mom (a woman who repeatedly refers to me by the cat’s name and has locked her keys in the car more times than I can count) attributes her absentmindedness to […]