Laughing my fucking ass off

*Possible trigger warnings* The latest outrage for us to express our outrage over and be outraged came in twos this week, when our Prime Minister made a joke about a paedophile and then RedFoo (from LMFAO) side-kicked in a song called “Literally I can’t“.

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When a compliment isn’t

On Stuff there was an article about the cat-calling/street harassment that an individual woman received while walking through New York

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The time John Key lied and said I threw an egg at an old man

It’s 3am and my children are safe and asleep. There’s a phone in my bedroom, on my bedside table in fact.

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Love thy Artist

**Trigger warnings** At what point does an artist’s behaviour affect your level of enjoyment for their body of work? Can you like an artist who does terrible things in real life? And if not, what’s the threshold before you go “nah, I’m not gonna listen to them/watch their films any more”.

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When Russel Norman’s money was no good here

In which our intrepid author continues his Gonzo adventures.

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The time I did cocaine with John Key

This is the beginning of a new sporadic series in which I go out and have gonzo adventures with well known New Zealanders. If you have any suggestions for whom I could adventure with next, please let me know.

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Faith in humanity: increased

A couple of days ago I got an email from a real estate who Kim and I had looked at a house with. She wasn’t asking if we had found a house (we have) or if we were selling a house (we’re not) but rather she emailed because she was helping organise collectors for the Breast Cancer Foundation and wondered if I could help be a collector.

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A writer writes: who am I?

I’ve been doing this blog for about 18 months now, give or take. It’s been fun. There have been some wonderful contributions from a wide variety of authors. Choice.

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Reverend Horton Heat: The Rev: A Review

I love the Reverend Horton Heat. It’s important to get that disclaimer out of the way. The other disclaimer is I got this album FOR FREE.

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Nicky Hager and the false flag

So a lot of people are up in arms about the raid on Nicky Hager’s house. According to reports from media and a statement from the man himself, the police showed up when he wasn’t there, executed a search warrant and took a bunch of stuff from his house.

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My list of things I probably won’t be dressing as this Halloween

Halloween is approaching, and though in New Zealand we half-ass it in comparison to our American friends, a lot of people still get into the spirit of it.

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A review of WOW written as though I have many personalities

I was asked if I’d like to review the World of WearableArt

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Ramble ramble, ranty rant

Hello again, it’s me, your second favourite left wing ranter.

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You guys are so choice

So yesterday after repeated emails from my webhost I finally caved and upgraded our hosting plan because we exceeded our monthly cap by quite a bit

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Baby, baby, where did our love go?

So that was a pretty brutal massacre wasn’t it? There’s an awful lot of reflection happening around the country as the left wing comes to terms with just what the hell actually happened.

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Pundity punditing

So I made some predictions and based on the provisional results this is how I did:

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A letter to New Zealand

Hello New Zealand It’s Dave here.  How you been?

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Election Prediction

I hate predictions, but I saw that Danyl made some. So I thought I’d get on board and hazard some guesses:

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