The Wellingtonista

Author: noizyboy

April 4, 2007

Flight of the Conchords: Think about It

It’s Flight of the Conchords Wed­nes­day!

Here’s one for rat­pony. Think about it. Think, think about it…

noizyboy
Comedy
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March 29, 2007

Rusticity

rusticity

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of the recent Wel­ling­ton Flickr Group’s exhib­i­tion at the Para­mount, cames yet more pho­to­graph­ic good­ness from a Wel­ling­ton flickr-ite legend A Dif­fer­ent Per­spect­ive (aka Jim Hende­r­son).

He’s put­ting on an exhib­i­tion of his work down at Island Bay’s The Bach café, from the 1st to the 30th of April.

To get a feel for what you might be see­ing, check out his awe­some flickr pho­to­stream here.

noizyboy
Art / Events / Photography
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March 28, 2007

Wellington Phoenix FC

Gah. If the stor­ies we’re hear­ing tonight are true, then we are … under­whelmed.

Ser­i­ously, Black Star Wel­ling­ton was the bomb.

And even Wel­ling­ton City or Wel­ling­ton FC were bet­ter options.

But … “Phoenix”?

Ah well.

Update. Well, it’s offi­cial, and, hav­ing slept on it, I sup­pose it’s some­thing we can live with. At least it’s not the Wel­ling­ton Bumble­bees.

noizyboy
Sport
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March 28, 2007

Flight of the Conchords: Business Time

Wel­ling­ton’s fourth most pop­u­lar digi-folk para­dists are cur­rently shoot­ing their 12-part HBO com­edy series in New York, with fel­low Wel­ling­to­ni­ans Taika Wai­titi dir­ect­ing a couple of shows, and Duncan Sarkies provid­ing the script for one of the epis­odes.

All this, of course, is just an excuse to post some clas­sic Flight of the Conchords for your listen­ing enjoy­ment. Oooo­h­hh yeah­h­hh, it’s busi­ness time…

noizyboy
Comedy
4 Comments
March 28, 2007

World’s largest phubble

As always, the pho­tob­log over on the right hand side­bar proves itself a rich source of short-term dis­trac­tion. This morn­ing it was dis­play­ing this photo, from where I went on a little voy­age of ‘phubble’ dis­cov­ery, which even­tu­ally led me to this bril­liant image of a phubble at the Basin Reserve…

phubble!

The worlds largest soap bubble blown by 10 year old Mary Smith of Wel­ling­ton who can just be seen at the bot­tom behind the bubble. It took her 7 hours and 38 minutes to get it to this size before a passing seagull flew through it and burst it. Mary was treated for Hyp­ox­ia and giv­en a lolly.

Bril­liant.

[Image by Mark Turn­bull]

noizyboy
Miscellaneous
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March 26, 2007

Bypass surgery complete. Has the patient survived?

At last, the final stage of the bypass has been opened, and the dec­ades-long drama is draw­ing to an end. The Dom­Post reports…

At 6am yes­ter­day, south­bound traffic was dir­ec­ted from The Ter­race Tun­nel onto a one-way Vivi­an St via a new off-ramp.

At the same time, Buller and Ghuznee streets rever­ted to two-way streets.

Trans­it New Zea­l­and pro­ject man­ager Jon­nette Adams said some motor­ists had teeth­ing prob­lems with the new lay­out, but were mostly cour­teous to each oth­er. Some “tweak­ing” of inter­sec­tion lights helped alle­vi­ate con­ges­tion on oth­er routes link­ing with the bypass.

A team of engin­eers would be on hand today to make sure things ran smoothly, Ms Adams said.

Trans­it opened the north­bound sec­tion of the bypass in Decem­ber.

Mean­while, frus­trated Wel­ling­to­ni­ans are turn­ing to the Web to vent their anger at delays caused by the region’s trans­port infra­struc­ture.

Aha! Haven’t they just.

So, how was it for you?

noizyboy
Transport
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March 22, 2007

What’s in a name #2

And the Wel­ling­tonista them­selves are in need of a name for their 10-pin bowl­ing team.

Sug­ges­tions so far…

  • Strike Force
  • Wel­ling­ton-PIN-stars
  • Gut­ter Rollers
  • Ultra-Cock­tail-Hour-Super-Bowl­ing-Squad

That Pin-Stars is going to take some beat­ing, but, for the sake of hav­ing a name in the hat, howza­bout The Strike­mas­ters (in trib­ute to the 80s Wel­ling­ton heavy met­al band of the same name).

Fur­ther monik­ers wel­come.

noizyboy
Sport / Wellingtonista
5 Comments
March 22, 2007

What’s in a name #1

So, per­haps the most drawn out sports decision ever to be made by an Aus­tralasi­an sport­ing body has finally been con­firmed, and a Wel­ling­ton bid has won the right field a team in Aus­trali­a’s A‑League soc­cer com­pet­i­tion.

Now all they need is a name (oh, and some play­ers, and a home ground, but let’s not men­tion that).

So, what do we think. What’s a good name for our loc­al pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball team. The guys over at the A‑League dis­cus­sion for­ums have come up with some sug­ges­tions…

  • Wel­ling­ton Wiz­ards
  • Wel­ling­ton Won­ders
  • Wel­ling­ton Wan­der­ers

…but, you know, that whole sports team allit­er­a­tion thing is a bit passé. There’s some sup­port for just con­tinu­ing the Knights (noooo!), and, like­wise, for a good old fash­ioned append­age like United, FC, or City. Today’s Dom­Post had these sug­ges­tions…

  • Wel­ling­ton Thun­der
  • Wel­ling­ton Fever
  • Wel­ling­ton Hor­nets
  • Wel­ling­ton Blast

…of which Hor­nets does­n’t ring too bad, although, do we have hor­nets in Wel­ling­ton? Surely the Wel­ling­ton Killer Bees would be more appro­pri­ate? And des­pite the enthu­si­asm of the sup­port­ers on the back page of the Dom­Post today, I don’t think ‘Fever’ is the best idea in the world – the rich poten­tial for head­line puns when things go hor­ribly wrong is just too much to con­sider.

Any oth­er thoughts?

noizyboy
Sport
36 Comments
February 19, 2007

Those were the days…

From the newly relaunched NZ His­tory web­site comes this wee gem from Today in His­tory (actu­ally, next week’s Monday, but I could­n’t wait to post it)…

Two Wel­ling­ton law­yers, W.V. Brew­er and H. Ross, drew pis­tols over a leg­al dif­fer­ence in Wel­ling­ton. Brew­er fired into the air but ‘received Mr. Ross’ ball in the groin’. He died sev­er­al days later.

Ouch.

noizyboy
Miscellaneous
0 Comment
February 13, 2007

Bus Angst #32

for god's sake, move down the back!Two words: bloody buses.

Actu­ally, here’s a few more. This par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista had to wait forty minutes last even­ing for even one bus to turn up on his route. Of course, when one did, it was packed to the gun­nels, so it sailed by the stop, as did the next, and the next. Finally, one only mod­er­ately packed bus did find space to fit me on board, so I did even­tu­ally get home, but what irks me is that in the forty minutes spent wait­ing at the bus-stop, I saw three Kil­birnie buses go by (the second two wer­en’t even that full), and two Houghton Bay buses. I mean, if they’re going to can­cel buses, could­n’t they be a little more even-handed about it all?

Bus routes affected by the can­cel­la­tions are lis­ted here. I find it hard to believe that there are no #1, #4 and #32 can­cel­la­tions after 4:30 today. As a pre­cau­tion, I plan to back-walk a few stops to the Bee­hive end of Lamb­ton Quay, to ensure, at least, that I can get onto a bus that will take me home, should one deem to actu­ally turn up.

noizyboy
Transport
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