Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 3:23 pm, March 15th, 2008 - 3 comments
For those of you who haven’t already found it, Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood has a bloody good economics-based radio show that goes up on the web. I’ve rediscovered it after being an avid listener some years ago and can throughly recommend it. His latest interview is with Nobel laureate Joesph Stiglitz (who incidentally […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 4:02 pm, February 11th, 2008 - 3 comments
Stuff reports that Wellingtonians of the year, “Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play marginally talented folk singers struggling to make it in New York, picked up the best comedy album Grammy for The Distant Future.” While we wait for the second season we’ll have to tide ourselves over with Conchordian highlights from YouTube like […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:01 pm, January 17th, 2008 - 19 comments
No Ordinary Sun Tree let your arms fall: raise them not sharply in supplication to the bright enhaloed cloud. Let your arms lack toughness and resilience for this is no mere axe to blunt nor fire to smother. Your sap shall not rise again to the moon’s pull. No more incline a deferential head to […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 8:44 am, November 14th, 2007 - 7 comments
Nigel Richards, formerly of Christchurch, has become our first world Scrabble champion. Richards apparently led from the start, needing just three of the five available games to clinch victory. Stuff reports that “In the final game, Richards got four bonus scores for getting all seven letters out & for dirtiest, overapt, recopies and equinias” Clearly […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:49 pm, October 17th, 2007 - 1 comment
Well I must admit to having been excited about the prospect of congratulating Lloyd Jones on winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Unfortunately it hasn’t turned out that way, the prize instead going to Anne Enright – congratulations to her instead! The Gathering by the 45-year-old Dublin writer was somewhat of a surpise winner, […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:31 am, October 11th, 2007 - 1 comment
Outragous Fortune’s heading to the US. ABC has signed a deal with South Pacific Pictures to turn the show into an American series. This is great news considering that Britain’s ITV has already commissioned a six-part series based on the show, due out next year. Don’t know about you but I’m just hopeful the show’s […]
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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