The Wellingtonista

Random stuff about Wellington since 2005

Hadyn Green

Hadyn Green was New Zealand’s first rugby podcaster. Since then he has moved on to… um… podcasting about rugby AND other sport. Hadyn is easily recognisable by his hate of idiots.

The Fright before Xmas – RCRD Derby Double Header

by Hadyn November 29, 2011

It’s back! After months in exile while we had that big rugby party, Roller Derby is back on the menu. On Saturday (just a few days before New Zealand’s world cup team begins its campaign in Toronto) all of the action will be right here in the capital as Wellington’s awesome Richter City Roller Derby [...]

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The Rugby World Cup and You

by Hadyn September 6, 2011

It’s a very exciting time. Just look how excited those people are in that image. The city is filling up with tourists from all over the world, and unlike the Cruise Line Season, these ones will be less homogenous and stick around after dark. However, like the Cruise Line Season, these tourists will be clogging [...]

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Two teams enter, one team leaves.

by Hadyn July 13, 2011

I suppose actually both teams leave, except they leave at the same time, so it’s like one team. In any case this weekend Roller Derby Bout is going to be big. Thunderdome big! Photo credit: Jed Soane. It’s been exactly three months since the season kicked off with a triple-header bout featuring all three teams. [...]

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Geometry on the street

by Hadyn June 16, 2011

The Wellingtonista’s task is simple: point out the bad shit and the good shit in Wellington. This is definitely in the good shit category. Hall Street in Newtown is, like many urban streets, troubled by groups of young people and their desire to write their names over and over again on walls. This is not [...]

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Slam and Smash

by Hadyn May 25, 2011

Game Two of the roller derby season is on this weekend at the TSB arena. It’s the leopard-print hunter-killers of Smash Malice up against the blue and silver super heroes of Comic Slams. And we have a double pass to give away! (see below for details) After claiming the first bout of the season, Smash [...]

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Rapturous

by Hadyn May 20, 2011

This Saturday the good and innocent will ascend to heaven to be with God as The Rapture comes to the world. Clearly this means you and the rest of the Wellingtonista audience will still be here, enjoying the newfound warmth of hellfire. And so the question must be asked… where should we be drinking when [...]

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The Price of Coffee

by Hadyn May 20, 2011

The woman had ordered a latte. As she handed her money over to John Halvorsen, the owner of Velox, he looked a little bashful. “Sorry we’ve raised our prices. It’s $3.80″. The woman scrambled in her purse for the remaining 30c while apologising. “Don’t worry, this one can be at the old rate” said John [...]

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Funny man

by Hadyn May 6, 2011

Jarrod Baker is a funny guy. He is one half of Billy T Award winning musical comedy duo Mrs Peacock (as seen on TVNZ’s A Night at the Classic), the sole member of non-award winning and sporadically musical comedy act Jarrod Baker, and an official MC for Richter City Roller Derby (as Ghetto Anger). And it’s good that he’s [...]

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Game On[e]!

by Hadyn May 3, 2011

It’s the two old foes against each other: Brutal Pageant and Smash Malice. We saw what both teams had to offer in the recent exhibition game and now they square off in the first game of the Richter City regular season. It’s gonna be big and we have a double pass to give away! To enter [...]

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The Great Easter Opening Hours Experiment

by Hadyn April 19, 2011

[Update: The spreadsheet is now fixed. Apologies to those who entered info but didn't see it show up, seems this is more of an experiment with Google Documents than with crowd-sourcing.] It happens every year. The holidays force many great bars to close because of some ancient myth (and here I thought Jesus was a [...]

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