Karen wants her twenty dollars back

A small com­munity ser­vice announce­ment… The fol­low­ing mes­sage was appar­ently left on an answer-phone when the caller mis-dialled. The involved parties would appear to be from Stokes Val­ley. Could someone let the ‘Rachel’ men­tioned know that Kar­en wants her $20 back. Thank you. (Warn­ing: NSFW lan­guage).

Moonrise over Mt Vic

Presen­ted without much in the way of com­ment, because it’s just frikkin’ awe­some… Full Moon Sil­hou­ettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo.

A southerly front

Yes­ter­day’s fore­cast thun­der­storm did­n’t quite arrive in cent­ral Wel­ling­ton (rain­fall was impress­ive, though, and the twit­ter­sphere reports there were a few bangs and flashes out in the Hutt and Kapiti way – any­one else?), but the front itself was an impress­ive met­eor­o­lo­gic­al phe­nomen­on. Dave Don­ald­son cap­tured a nice time-lapse of it rolling in over Cook […]

Waiting

Not sure if the Ohiro Road bus-stop book­case and sofas have sur­vived the weath­er and/or van­dals (reports, any­one?), but, either way, here’s a lovely video by Dan Adams doc­u­ment­ing this fant­ast­ic urb­an enhance­ment… Wait­ing from Dan Adams on Vimeo. via Eye of the Fish

Wellington winter nostalgia (no, really)

Today’s guest post comes cour­tesy of Daisy Coles – you read more of her stuff over at daisyandzelda.wordpress.com I’m sit­ting in my togs on shady grass in a hid­den corner of Europe. I’m watch­ing the dragon­flies flit round a lazy little branch of the Danube, with a wine spritzer in one hand and an incom­pre­hens­ible news­pa­per […]

Island Bay Festival 2012

The 28th annu­al Island Bay Fest­iv­al kicks off tomor­row (Sat 11 Feb), with a heap of events and activ­it­ies planned for the com­ing week. All the favour­ite events are back: Bless­ing of the Boats, the parade down the Parade, Bands in the Park (fea­tur­ing Fam­ily Cac­tus, Ryan Preb­ble, Joe Blos­som, and New­town Sound and MC Israel […]

Ben Hana, aka Tarzan, aka “Blanket Man” dies

As repor­ted in the NZ Her­ald and Stuff. I remem­ber see­ing him asleep on the corner of Cour­tenay Place and Tory Street, bathed in sun­shine, loin-cloth akimbo, home-made alu­min­i­um-can dope-pipe rest­ing peace­fully by his slum­ber­ing body, only a couple of weeks back. It seems weird that we won’t see him there again. R.I.P. (Remem­ber, you […]

Candidates: Jonathan Fletcher for National in Rimutaka

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? My name is Jonath­an Fletch­er, I’m hon­est, hard­work­ing, com­pas­sion­ate and trust­worthy. I’m a hus­band […]

Little Bark – Party

Fri­day music video time. Here’s a new one from Wel­ling­ton’s Little Bark. Lots more good Little Bark listen­ing (and free down­loads) over at her band­camp page.

Candidates: Stephen Whittington for ACT in Wellington Central

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? I’m Steve, I grew up in Wel­ling­ton, and I want a New Zea­l­and that’s […]