Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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The one thing that annoys me about my home town, and this is very picky, the distinct lack of iced coffee.
This serious issue was recently addressed by the coffee-lovin' folk at the Wellingtonista here, with a follow-up here.
Conclusion: it's possible to get a great iced coffee in Wellington, but sometimes you have to be quite specific when you order it.
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Mr Scott, thank you for the YewChoobs of your fine band. I like that version of "Love is the Drug" almost as much as Grace Jones' version.
Total Wellington porn!
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Phoenix Foundation AND James Milne (as Lawrence Arabia) are playing in Auckland on sunday... at the zoo!! Fair enough, it's not free, but the zoo is a great venue
Tickets are $27, and when you consider that's a mere $9 on top of the normal zoo admission fee of $18, I reckon that's not too bad at all.
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Farian should have got the grammy himself, he was a master craftsman and still is.
The thing that struck me about Milli Vanilli's Grammy being taken off them was that it seemed to imply that Grammys are not just about the music, but also the videos and album covers and marketing.
Well, perhaps that's what it really is about.
FYI, Milli Vanilli won the 1990 Best New Artist Grammy over Tone Loc, Soul II Soul, Indigo Girls and Neneh Cherry.
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I followed the instructions at the top - select ONE candidate, pull little lever, get 'x' next to their name, then pull big lever.
It all seems rather complicated - well done on figuring it out.
Though, give me the orange felt pens of Aotearoa any day!
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Obama leaves me strangely cold with all his rhetoric dressed up as poetry.
That's the impression I got too. I thought something isn't quite right when a political speech can slide that easily into song lyrics.
It reminds me of some '80s sitcom when an underachieving student realises he can learn stuff at school when he turns his study notes into hip hop rhymes.
Yo.
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Pleasingly, the Herald today has an article looking at street artists who aren't happy to be lumped in with taggers and anti-tagging sentiment.
Oscar from Street Arse is quoted, and gives a thoughtful perspective. Not surprisingly, street artists don't like those punk-arse taggers either.
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It is not likely that this element in the vocabulary will ever increase much.
I guess this was written just before the start of the Maori renaissance, when many assumed Maori was a dying race who would soon be assimilated into European culture.
Not even, ehoa!
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On Saturday night I found myself in a "WTF! Why weren't we invited to Foo Camp!" conversation with some other awesome people. But in a way, if you don't go, you don't necessarily miss out, cos of all the blog reports there are to read through, seeing everyone's own take on their Foo experience. (A bit like the Big Day Out!)
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The southern burrrr seems to be a recent thing
According to the Southland Dialect entry from the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand:
A “burred” r is pronounced at the end of words and before consonants (beer, there, shore, after, march, port, certain), and was noticed by McBurney in 1886 in Dunedin, Christchurch, and Nelson.
I can has cheezburrrrgerrrrr?