Comedy fest review: Guy Montgomery in Let’s all get in a room together

Guy Montgomery is one of those comics that if you tried to regale your colleagues with his best bits after seeing him, it wouldn’t work.

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Comedy fest review: Paco Erhard in 5 Step Guide to being German

Some friends and I were discussing what we would expect to see from Paco Erhard’s show “5 Step Guide to being German”.

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Comedy fest review: Brendon Green in Best Friends

I saw Brendon Green in the 2014 Comedy Festival in Some More Mr Nice Guy, and it was one of the most well written shows I had ever seen. Brendon danced us backwards and forwards, weaving call-backs and flash-forwards with a deftness far exceeding his age as a comic.

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Peak peak Rumination 16: Which way is the castle?

The #TwinPeaksRewatch schedule is at the bottom of the post! You can catch up, but it’d take a bit of serious binge watching… This week’s piece by Dave Chapman brings us to episodes 27 and 28 – almost at the end now!

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Peak peak Rumination 15: Verses of the same song

The #TwinPeaksRewatch schedule is at the bottom of the post! You can catch up, but it’d take a bit of serious binge watching… This week we hit episodes 25 and 26.

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Peak peak Rumination 14: It’s a pretty simple town

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post! This week the #TwinPeaksRewatch is up to episodes 23 and 24.

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Peak peak Rumination 13: And the hippie too

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post! This week the #TwinPeaksRewatch is up to episodes 21 and 22.

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Cosmic Shambles: A review

Imagine you wanted to somehow ensnare me, specifically, in an elaborate trap, but you needed a sure-fire way of luring me into triggering it.

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Peak peak Rumination 12: Halfway through living it

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post! This week our the #TwinPeaksRewatch is up to episodes 19 and 20, and as conspiracies deepen, who better to write about these episodes than the mysterious Matthew Dentith! Illustration by Grant Buist (@fitz_bunny), check out his strip Jitterati. You’ll also find below the details of the original NZ screening of these episodes, courtesy Paul Scoones.

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Peak peak Rumination 11: Blessed with certain gifts

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post! This week our the #TwinPeaksRewatch is up to episodes 17 and 18 but instead of diving into them, this entry by Amanda Lyons is delving into some unfinished business: the aftermath of the climactic events that have just unfolded. Illustration by Grant Buist (@fitz_bunny), check out his strip Jitterati. You’ll also find below the details of the original NZ screening of these episodes, courtesy Paul Scoones.

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What to expect when you’re not expecting III: Not great news

So you might have read my piece, and/or Kim’s piece about our adventures through infertility. It’s been a hard road. And we had just started the next chapter which was a cycle of IVF.

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Peak peak Rumination 10: That gum you like

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post! This week’s entry on episodes 15 and 16 is written by Paul Scoones (@paul_scoones), who is also behind the original screening info we’ve been including in every post – so you can see that down below as well. Thanks Paul! Illustration by Grant Buist (@fitz_bunny), check out his strip Jitterati.

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Peak peak Rumination 9: Missoula, Montana

It’s not too late to catch up with the #TwinPeaksRewatch! Check the schedule at the bottom of this post!

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What to expect when you’re not expecting II (vaginas)

If my doctor had sat me down when my husband and I decided to start trying for a baby and said “Kim, this is going to be a hard road and also you’ve got two vaginas”, I would have doubled over and laughed at the absurdity of it.

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What to expect when you’re not expecting

I’m not a huge fan of revealing too much personal information on a blog that is read by 10s of people but here we go, this is as personal as it gets. Also, this post may get super long. Sorry.

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Peak peak Rumination 8: Sometimes the Can-Do Girls Can’t

Have you started walking through the #TwinPeaksRewatch woods? Check the schedule at the bottom of this post!

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Peak peak Rumination 7: Bury her deep enough

Have you started dancing the #TwinPeaksRewatch dance? Check the schedule at the bottom of this post!

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Peak peak Rumination 6: We want to help you

Have you started carrying the #TwinPeaksRewatch log? Check the schedule at the bottom of this post!

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