Is someone thinking of the children yet?
In my last post, I asked: what happens to a community when the people who live in it withdraw their support of it?
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A nice Politician with a capital P: My interview with Grant Robertson
Af-fable adj: Pleasant, friendly and easy to talk to; see: Robertson, Grant.
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Review a day: Best dog walk ever
Ruby is my dog. I love her. I hate her. Dog owners will know what I mean. I hope.
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Beyond the headland: an encounter with Keri Hulme
Last week Ali Ikram travelled to Oamaru to interview one of the country’s greatest living writers. Keri Hulme does not travel by plane to avoid lung infections.
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A review a day
A list of some of the things that, in no particular order, have happened to me recently.
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The Terror of procreation
Part one of an occasional series (when I’ve had enough sleep to enable typing).
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Comedy Fest review: Jamie Bowen in Heart goes Boom
First off, this picture does not do Jamie’s beard justice. That is one hell of a beard.
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Comedy fest review: Jeremy Elwood in Jeremy Elwood LIVE
Well of course he’s live. If he wasn’t live. He’d be dead.
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Comedy Fest review: Ben Crellin in …err…Benjamin Crellin
Ben Crellin is a confrontational comic. He’s possibly not the sort of comedian you’d bring your grandparents to.
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Comedy Fest review: Tom Wrigglesworth in Utterly At Odds With The Universe
So Tom Wrigglesworth was here a few years ago (2010 in fact, damn time marches on) and he constructed an entire one hour show based on a short story of a thing that happened to him on a train.
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Comedy Fest review: Brendon Green in Some More Mr Nice Guy
I’m noticing a trend in festival shows this year. We’re not getting the big introductions where we’re asked to go “crazy and wild” for the comic. Instead the comedian is just sort of there.
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Comedy fest review: Jonny Potts in the Delusionaries
Jonny is a guy with a bit of a cult following around Wellington. He looks like a throwback to the 1990s with his semi-grungy motif but he’s a funny fucker.
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Comedy fest review: Jamaine Ross in Jamaine Says Funny Things
I walk down the stairs into the Cavern Club to see Jamaine Ross’s show and he immediately greets me with a friendly handshake, a warm smile and a jovial ‘hello’.
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Comedy fest review: Hairy Soul Man
Kai Smythe, a Melbourne-based musician, comedian and performer is Hairy Soul Man, a peacock of a performer full of swagger and confidence.
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Comedy fest review: Urzila Carlson in Poise Control
I turn up to San Fran to see Urzila Carlson about two minutes before the show starts, and the venue is packed.
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How not to write a comedy show
Every year it’s the same thing, more or less. We reach the end of May; the comedy festival is done and dusted. Exhausted, I swear I’ll never go through THAT again
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