I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about Kim Dot Com since the day he burst onto our collective consciousnesses a few months ago. He is an enigma. Not quite “A riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma”, but certainly he is rapidly becoming the most interesting person in New Zealand politics. Perhaps that’s not a difficult target, as the competition is not up…
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A Wellingtonian, interested in architecture and design. But enough about me, what about you?
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On the way to the northern suburbs of Wellington, on route to the southern suburbs of Porirua, sits the bustling suburbopolis of Tawa. Famous for its great Tawa trees (sadly, I think, all chopped down), as well as for it’s Dressmart shopping outlet (designer brands at great discount prices), Tawa is also home to a prison (though it doesn’t like to talk so much about that…
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Earthquake ! 9.26 this morning – earth quake drill. You’re supposed to Drop to the floor, take Cover under your Desk, and Hold onto something. Meh. I don’t even fit under my desk. I’m Doomed. And what is all that nonsense about having 3 litres of water in your office, per person. Is anyone really expecting that we are going to keep on working at our…
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We tend to take technology for granted these days. No longer do we have to carry a spare pint of oil or a spare fan belt in our cars, no longer is it necessary to have access to a map book when we go to visit an old forgotten aunty. Nowadays, modern wee technocrats that we are, we’re surrounded by technology, and it just works, dammit,…
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All things going well, you should see a new mast-head on the Eye of the Fish today. It is part of a visual – actually, it’s a little work of art – by the wonderfully talented and incredibly gorgeous Kelly Spencer. Most of the time you’ll only get to see a slither of the Fish, and that all-seeing Eye, but we might let you peek under…
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Did you know that it is international Tolkien Week this week? I didn’t. And are you eagerly awaiting the next trailer for The Hobbit, due out tomorrow, from our lordly uber-meister, Sir Peter Jackson? I’m sure you probably are – I certainly am. PJ has done more to lift Wellington out of the gloom and doom of governmental restructuring than we ever give him credit for….
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So, after nearly a year, the Royal Commission into the effects of the Canterbury Earthquakes has heard its last witness, seen its last powerpoint, and drank its last afternoon tea. They’ve had a jolly old time. Meanwhile, what have we learned? Well, here at the Eye of the Fish, we’ve learned quite a lot. Having never seen a Royal Commission before (racks brain trying to think…
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Following on from the last post about Fashion, we all know that Green is the new black. Actually, it has been Green for a few years now, so beige is probably the new green, and possibly puce is the new beige as well, but anyhow: yes, well: Green roofs are certainly IN right now. And green walls. But first of all: the best picture of a…
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And so it was, that on a blustery and wet weekend, the Eye of the Fish looked upon Auckland, and behold: found Fashion Week. A curious event, populated entirely by small, stick-thin girls, overly frou-frou mothers, and a gaggle of highly camp young men. Of red-blooded, standard gauge heterosexual men, there was no sign: which is odd, considering that the venue was stuffed from head to…
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News through the official channels today, to back up what we have suspected for some time: that the Mt Vic tunnel is to be duplicated. Not straight away, mind you, but a reasonably definite timeframe : starting about 2018. This is bound to stir up a bit of a fuss, although perhaps not as much as the plans for Flyovers has stirred up. Some people will…