Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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It's very gender subversive to give a huge piece of boring machinery a female name. Do they call the tunnel Fred?
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There's something to be said for butter chicken. For many New Zealanders, it's their first Indian experience. It has a safe English name involving two ordinary Pakeha ingredients and serves as a delicious introduction to the world of curry. A gateway drug!
Wellington's Malaysian curry houses must be mentioned! That's easily one of my favourite things about Wellington. I took my brother, who was living in Malaysia at the time, to one place. He confirmed it was about as authentic as you'd get in Malaysia - only it cost a lot more, compared to the home country! Beef rendang FTW.
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Hard News: Crowdfunding Time, in reply to Martin Connelly,
If I go to make a donation (Paypal) - I end up appearing to donate to something called "dubwise". This does not look very legit to me!!!
Don't worry - that's the correct account. You'll note the contact email address for the Paypal account is Russell's email.
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I ain't got no money, honey, but I figure I could spare a little for one of my favourite blogs.
And honestly, anything that gets us closer to the food blog can only be a good thing.
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Capture: One picture of you, and no more, in reply to Danielle,
Nine months pregnant with the first child, in our first house.
I love this photo! It is so full of joy and awesomeness – and it’s refreshing to see a pregnant woman photographed from that angle. <3
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Some people feel that it perpetuates gender stereotypes about the way men and women relate to music.
I'll tell you what - a few months ago I got rid of all my CDs. By that stage I'd already ditched the jewel cases and had them in CD folders. One afternoon I was in the middle of alphabetising them when I realised that I never actually played them and I couldn't be bothered alphabetising them, so I just put them in the rubbish. Liberation! Somewhere in the garage is a box of vinyl, none of it played since about 2000. I couldn't biff it though. It'll go on Trade Me, once I can be bothered.
Ok, my tunage for this week:
1. "Dancin' on the D" by Lil Freckles
If you saw the latest episode of Girls, you would have heard this performed in the nightclub. It's a summer jam, a girly hip hop ode to being a fly young chick and having lots of sex. It makes me wish I was 24 or something. NSFW if you were planning on playing it out loud?2. "Hero" by Frank Ocean, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Diplo
Brought together by the corporate overlord Converse, it is nonetheless a dope track with lush guitar from the Clash dudes, dreamy production from Diplo, cool from Frank Ocean and a children's choir that does not suck. -
I read somewhere that "top X" lists are more enticing when it's an odd number of items. A top 10 sounds too neat, like surely there's been at least one good one left off. If it's, say, a top 11, then it seems like it's a definitive best-of list.
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Me, in a bar in Tokyo, 2011. It was the day before the earthquake (#ominousforeboding). I was at a bar in Shibuya with my friends Matt and Jon, tired-as (a power combo of sleep deprivation and jetlag) but having the best and beeriest time. At one point Jon (a photographer) jumped up on the bench seat and took this photo. I was sitting there trying to not look like I was posing and also trying to not look tired and emotional. I like it. Also, my hair is super.
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Speaking of ye olde search engines, when I started at Xtra in 1999, there was a page I had to maintain on the Xtra website that was a list of search engines that people could use, including one for New Zealand sites.
Anyway, this anniversary is a good a time as any to revisit Down to the Wire, a history of the internet in New Zealand, from 1989 to 2010.
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As he'd done the night before, Springsteen kicked off with a solo blues interpretation of 'Royals'.
Ooh, he dropped an F-bomb, which didn't attract any sort of fuss, not like when Lorde said it.
It reminds me of Michele A'Court's brilliant piece on the subject of women in comedy. Why are lady comedians so sweary? They're not, says Michele. It's just that some people notice swearing a lot more when a woman does it. Fuckin' oats.
