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Ruminator’s 2014 Person of the Year
- Lord Sutch
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Following on from last year’s controversial decision to award Ruminator’s Person of the Year to Miley Cyrus, I took some suggestions from the Twitterazis as to who it should be this year.
Read MoreHow do I hit on people safely? Our first agony aunt response!
- Slightly Slutty Barren Spinster
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Our first letter to our slightly slutty barren spinster was a very topical one. One where our protagonist is clearly paying attention to the world around him and needs some old fashioned tips on dating.
Read MoreAsk a Slightly Slutty Barren Spinster anything
- Slightly Slutty Barren Spinster
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Dear Ruminator Readers, I have long been a fan of this website. Lord Sutch is my favourite NZ political commentator.
Read MoreWerecreatures, zines, and metal
- Donna Robertson
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There has been lots to see and do in Christchurch in the past week. Come indulge in some flânerie with me.
Read MoreThe Nickelback Effect
- Nick Fone
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Thirteen years ago I (allegedly) stole my first piece of digital media – and I have been on the run ever since.
Read MoreMusings of a teacher on the cusp of retirement
- Guest Post
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By a teacher who is getting old. I can see my own teachers shouting and rolling in their graves, how did she become a teacher?!
Read MoreA writer writes: who am I?
- Lord Sutch
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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.
Read MoreYou guys are so choice
- Lord Sutch
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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
Read MoreA letter to New Zealand
- Lord Sutch
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Hello New Zealand It’s Dave here. How you been?
Read MoreLet’s not be dicks
- Lord Sutch
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So this isn’t going to make me very popular but I don’t care.
Read MoreWhy New Zealand is pretty great.
- Kim
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Disclosure: This is not a cooking review. It is also not about politics.
Read MoreGoodbye to all that, with added spraycans
- Donna Robertson
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There are ways of saying goodbye to your home. Ours involved realising the garage was getting demolished too, and grabbing stuff out of it as quick as we could.
Read MoreKiritapu
- Michele A Court
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There are many different ways to honour the people who shape us. We present awards and bestow honours for remarkable achievements, adding letters at the end of names like “ONZ” or “QSM” or prefixing names with “Dame” or “Sir”.
Read MoreMy First Writers Festival
- Chelle Walmsley
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My sister drove us to Auckland from Hastings, with a stop in Taupo for Burger Fuel, where we shared two burgers between us.
Read MoreBeyond the headland: an encounter with Keri Hulme
- Ali Ikram
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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.
Read MoreWhy we should remember them
- Erin Reilly
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It was freezing. It wasn’t one of those nice chilly I-just-went-to-the-snow-and-had-a-bundle-of-laughs-wearing-pompom-hats kind of freezings either; more like the kind of deathly freezing that burrows itself deep deep down into your soul and numbs you from the inside out
Read MoreToday is our first birthday so there’s nothing serious to say
- Lord Sutch
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What you get today is things that amuse me. Because fuck you, it’s our birthday. I mean I love you all
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