The Wellingtonista

Author: Joanna

May 15, 2007

Vic Books sale

On a stun­ning day like today, what could be a bet­ter way to use your lunch hour than tak­ing the cable car up the hill to Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity and check­ing out the sale at Vic Books? With books start­ing at 50 cents, this is how I keep my book­shelves over­loaded.

There’s only a week and a half more to go, but new stock is con­stantly added, there’s 25% off fic­tion not already reduced on 17th May; and 25% off non-fic­tion not already reduced on the 24th. The sale fin­ishes Fri­day 25th May and the shop’s open daily from 8am-6pm. Oh, and due to a ter­rible mis­hap with sup­pli­ers, they have 100 cop­ies of Ann Coulter­’s Slander for 50 cents each, which is per­fect if you’re in the mood for a good old-fash­ioned book burn­ing to warm the autumn nights. Hur­rah!

Joanna
Retail
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May 9, 2007

WBL: Results round three

Oooh! Things are really get­ting excit­ing now.

Former league cham­pi­ons Xero took on Clem­enger last night and did­n’t come out vic­tori­ous.

Mean­while the ran­dom point awar­ded for most gut­ter balls (chosen by Sil­ver­stripe as last week’s ran­dom point win­ners) allowed the Bow­l­ing­tonista to give up last place to Click­Suite – although if I could repeat my hil­ari­ous joke about there being no ‘I’ in ‘Wellng­ton­sta Bowlng League’, Click­Suite did once again have the highest scor­ing indi­vidu­al play­er. Ryan man­aged to beat Clem­enger­’s Dr. Broad for that title even though Dr Broad got four strikes in a row, and Click­Suite are no doubt weighed down by their ridicu­lous facial hair that they’re grow­ing for May­stache.

And while Bowl­tron had prom­ised to form into one mighty lion if their score went over 500, unfor­tu­nately that just did­n’t come to pass. They still creamed us though, even des­pite our attempts at dis­trac­tion with clev­er rhym­ing chants. League table and indi­vidu­al points after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
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May 7, 2007

A close shave

Any­one for­get to shave this morn­ing might be inter­ested in head­ing down to Lamb­ton Quay near the Old Bank Arcade, where a cara­van set up like a barber­shop is wait­ing for you. It appears to be a pro­mo­tion for a par­tic­u­lar kind of new men’s razor, but I’m sure they’d be happy to shave ladies too…

Joanna
Retail
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May 2, 2007

WBL Round 2: The results

  Won Dr. Pt. Rnd. Total
Xero 2 2 2 0 12
Clem­enger 2 2 0 0 10
Sil­ver­stripe 1 2 0 1 7
Bowl­tron 1 2 0 0 6
Bow­l­ing­tonista 0 2 0 0 2
Click­suite 0 2 0 0 2
Dr: Drink Bonus, Pt: Points Bonus, Rnd: Ran­dom Bonus.

Team res­ults and com­ment­ary after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
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April 29, 2007

Your fortnight in coffee

Fairtrade Fort­night star­ted yes­ter­day, so I’m sure you’re keen to do your bit to make the world a bet­ter place. The Wel­ling­tonista would, there­fore, like you to help us do a little research.

There are a lot of cof­fee com­pan­ies in Wel­ling­ton who now offer fairtrade beans. We want you to get drink­ing and tell us what the best ones are. You can use the fairtrade loc­at­or to start your search, but it may be a little out of date – there is no Malo Cafe any­more, for example – so it might be best if you ask your favour­ite cafes if they have fairtrade beans – and if they don’t, ask them why the hell they don’t. Go forth and caffinate!

Joanna
Food & Drink
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April 27, 2007

What up, weekend? 27 April edition

So, what to do over the next couple of days? Do like we do, and do these things:

  • Get your fancy pants on, and head along to the Madame Fancy Pants new store open­ing tonight at 217 Cuba St.
  • I’m sure you know by now how we feel about any­thing even vaguely Tiki-related, so nat­ur­ally Voo­doo Mambo at Mighty Mighty ranks highly on our must-do list.
  • Or, if you’re after some­thing more tra­di­tion­al, why not check out the Maori Mar­ket 2007 at the TSB Bank Area? it prom­ises to fea­ture

    …paint­ings, weav­ing, sculp­ture, wood, sil­ver, bone, gold, and green­stone carving, clay, Ta Moko or tra­di­tion­al tat­too with items ran­ging in price from $500 to $80,000.

  • How about an immers­ive envir­on­ment of light and sound? That’d be Look­less­ness and it’s on at the Film Archive. Sat­urday night sees a “live per­form­ance by the artists entitled Light-mantled Sooty Albatross. People are invited to view live in action “the mutli-pro­ject­or ana­logue delights: spliced and bub­bling mar­mite col­lage, eye-bend­ing glass light, and bleached, hon­eyed sprock­et-holes.”
  • Or, if you prefer your birds to rise frm the flames, there is, of course the Phoenix Found­a­tion play­ing at San Frindigo on Sat­urday night.
Joanna
Events
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April 27, 2007

When the lines go down

I’m sure you know that the Wel­ling­tonista is a big fan of the trol­ley buses, and thinks that every­one who bitches about the wires over­head being an eye­sore is an idi­ot. You prob­ably think that it’s because we’re dirty leftie greenies that we’re fond of the wires, but the truth is, we like them because it’s hil­ari­ous when they go down. Like this morn­ing, watch­ing a trol­ley-bus hav­ing to get shunted by anoth­er bus out of a major Hataitai inter­sec­tion. And get­ting to ride on the oth­er side of Cour­tenay Place around marooned buses. And see­ing Wil­lis St totally blocked up with the corpses of trol­ley buses left life­less. Actu­ally it was lovely to see how friendly all the traffic was, and how quickly police and oth­er people in shiny coats were there to dir­ect traffic and keep things run­ning. Some­times Wel­ling­ton is a sur­pris­ingly well-oiled machine. The offi­cial word after the jump:

Joanna
Transport
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April 25, 2007

WBL Round 1: the results

So we met, we bowled, great epic battles were fought, and drink­ing was the win­ner on the day. And also Xero. Here’s the league points so far.

  Played Won Drawn Drink bonus Points Bonus Total
Bow­l­ing­tonista 1 0 0 1 0 1
Bowl­tron 1 1 0 1 0 5
Clem­enger 1 1 0 1 0 5
Click­suite 1 0 0 1 0 1
Sil­ver­stripe 1 0 0 1 0 1
Xero 1 1 0 1 1 6

Team bowl­ing scores are after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
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April 19, 2007

The Wellingtonista Bowling League Draw

It gives us tre­mend­ous pleas­ure to announce the draw of our Bowl­ing League. Brave (but fool­ish for think­ing they could pos­sibly beat us) teams from Xero, Sil­ver­stripe, Click Suite, Clem­enger BBDO and the fant­ast­ic­ally named Bowl­tron will be tak­ing part and there­fore get massive karma points.

SEE THE FULL DRAW HERE.

Round 1 will be Tues­day 24th at 8pm at The Lanes on Wake­field St.

The rules on the night are as fol­lows:

  • If at the end of the game your team’s sum total (total of all four play­ers) is high­er than your oppos­i­tion’s then you get four com­pet­i­tion points.
  • If your team con­sumes more than four alco­hol­ic bever­ages (or aver­ages more than one per play­er) you get a bonus com­pet­i­tion point
  • The team with the highest sum total on the night gets an extra bonus point.

So if you booze up and roll like a god your team could come away with 6 points.

Expect to see many people at Clem­enger cry­ing on Wed­nes­day morn­ing after the Bow­l­ing­tonista give them the thrash­ing of their lives. Hur­rah!

Joanna
Events / Wellingtonista
20 Comments
April 13, 2007

What up, weekend?

Want­ing to stalk us this week­end, and/or find some­thing for your­self to do? Here are our sug­ges­tions:

Joanna
Events
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