A short, sharp, sweet and sour chilli post: aren’t the new Lanterns at the Southern Cross garden bar great? Love ‘em ! Thanks for the pix Bambi – and thanks to the Southern Cross Bar for being so awesome. Whoever the architect is, deserves a medal I tell ya ! Gung Hai Fat Choy ! [...]
While Auckland is agonizing over the prospect of the vile Chow brothers building a 15 story high brothel in the CBD, on the site of their demolished former heritage building, Wellington (thankfully) does not seem to be such a magnet for their Chow charms. Instead, we’ve got a more modest addition to the capital’s brothel [...]
Hello: Indeed, as minimus notes, we’re back. Thanks for your continued interest, support, and friendly comments. Sensible post from mini, somewhat off the wall one from maxi: Guess what? It is going to be the Year of the Dragon soon (23 January), in the Chinese astrological calendar, and while I don’t normally go in for [...]
It’s Sunday evening and I just saw through a friend’s Facebook a link indicating that Wellington icon Blanket Man (Ben Hana) died in hospital. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10778915 Since this is a blog devoted to the city of Wellington and its sense of place I can’t imagine that we could not mention his death. He was a permanent [...]
Greetings and Happy New Year! I made a singular resolution this year, and that was to write for Eye of the Fish, so it’s a pleasure to be the first post of the new year. Plus, with this post I’ll have already have accomplished my resolution – huzzah! One of the things that I’ve found [...]
Watching in amazement at the North Koreans with their state sanctioned out-pouring of grief, more artificial but no less weird than the Brits did when Lady Diana died, it seems an appropriate point on which to bid farewell to this quite frankly disaster-filled year, to wish you all a Happy holiday break, and to get [...]
So, after 369 posts, 5034 comments, and more or less avoiding some 14,963 spam, we’re running a bit low on keen and willing writers here at the Eye of the Fish. Let’s face it, as a form of journalism / interaction with the public, blogging seems unfortunately to have had it’s day – it has [...]
I can’t recall the last time I sat and cried all the way through a movie – maybe it was a love story or maybe it was a tragedy – but this time it was a documentary. What an extraordinary film. Go. See. It. Now. Filmed by Christchurch resident Gerard Smyth, When a City Falls [...]
So, Michael Jackson had it right after all. Long, long ago, a long long time before he magically changed from a black man into a white woman, he penned some words and danced some moves that sum up the New Zealand electoral scene quite nicely thank you: “It’s close to midnight Something evil’s lurkin’ in [...]