Author: Joanna

WBL Round Four Results:

Holy crap! The last game of the sea­son is tonight, and things are look­ing tight tight tight!

Last week the Pur­ple Cobras took the Bowl­ing­ton­ista 471 to 349, pick­ing up an extra point for their high­est score, while Tom from the Bowl­ing­ton­ista got the league point for the best flair, bowl­ing with­out spilling a drop of his mar­ti­ni held in the oth­er hand. The Fur­ry Fer­als took Xero 372 to 314, which means they’re tied for first place with the Cobras, although the Cobras have a by-week this week, which means in the­o­ry that unless the Fer­als don’t show up they can’t win the league, but I’m going to throw things WIDE OPEN and announce that tonight there’ll be league points for fastest bowl, slow­est bowl AND best flair, and I know the Cobras have booked their own league, so we’ll see how things go. Mean­while Bowl­ing­ton­ista will be play­ing Xero for last place, and the Mighty Boost will be try­ing to move up to first or sec­ond instead of third. All bets are off, except on us hav­ing a good time. 

Bowl­ing­ton­ista: 7 

Fur­ry Fer­als: 22

Mighty Boost: 16

Pur­ple Cobras: 22

Xero: 6

Double Meat Palace

Tem­per­ance Bar might not be doing quite as well as it hoped, because they’re offer­ing 2‑for‑1 mains on Mon­days, Tues­days and Wednes­days in their ads in the Cap­i­tal Times. You can “Choose any menu item of our menu and receive anoth­er of the same or less­er val­ue for free.” Y’hear that? Any menu item of their menu!

Mean­while The Estab­lish­ment clear­ly feels threat­ened because they’ve been run­ning an ad right next to it stat­ing that they offer 2‑for-1s every day but they don’t have any sign of their spe­cial on their annoy­ing music-play­ing site (Seri­ous­ly, who still does that? Is it still 1999? Is Flash still cool?). If their 24 hour liquor license was­n’t enough of a threat to soci­ety, they also offer a 1.2kg steak — which if you can fin­ish with­in 40 min­utes, you dine for free. Yeesh.

If that’s not yet enough meat for you in the meat-mar­ket-dis­trict, Four Kings offers “All you can eat ribs” for $19.95 on Mon­day nights. 

Yikes. I think it’s time we did a review of Pran­nah and maybe High­er Taste. 

Halloween: Wrestling and zombies and dress-ups, oh my!

Next Fri­day is, of course, Hal­loween. And if you’re not trick-or-treat­ing, you’ll need some in-town enter­tain­ment. Oh boy do we have ideas for you!

(Awe­some zom­bie pin-up pic­ture stolen from My Zom­bie Pin-up)

First up, there’s the Hal­loween Howl II wrestling at Welling­ton High School. You already know how much we love the wrestling. Hol­lie, Queen of the Divas, will be there. We’ll be there, dressed up like zom­bies again. Would­n’t you like to come with us?

That’ll be over and done with in time for the Zom­bie Meet-Up at the Para­mount around 10pm. They’ll be screen­ing poo-your­self-scary [REC] at 10.30pm with pro­ceeds going to NZBlood, and then doing a Zom­bie March down Courte­nay Place at 11.45pm.

There’s no word yet on how to tell the dif­fer­ence between the zom­bies and your aver­age Courte­nay Place munter, but just in case you need to here’s a help­ful video from the good folks at Com­mon­Craft.

WBL 2008 Round Three Results

I was­n’t drink­ing last week at the bowl­ing, so con­se­quent­ly, I for­got to pick up the score sheets. Ridicu­lous, I know.

But I can tell you that while a Dom Post pho­tog­ra­ph­er snapped mer­ri­ly away, the Mighty Boost beat the Bowl­ing­ton­ista AND got the slow­est bowl, that the Pur­ple Cobras beat Xero, and that Fer­als showed up just to drink and cheer us on, so they got a league point. That means the scores stand as:

Bowl­ing­ton­ista: 4
Fur­ry Fer­als: 16
Mighty Boost: 15
Pur­ple Cobras: 15
Xero: 4

Things are look­ing as tight as the holes in a num­ber 8 ball right now, so tonight will no doubt be full of excite­ment and sab­o­tage. But, if you’ll just let me put on my teacher’s hat for a minute here, I was made aware of some rather unsports­man­like crit­i­cism last week, and that is not cool. By all means, talk your­self up, and put down teams as a whole, but repeat­ed call­ing out an indi­vid­ual play­er’s tech­nique, espe­cial­ly when you don’t actu­al­ly know them is for chumps. And there aren’t any chumps in our league, right?

WBL 2008 Round Two Results

Last week was Bowl­ing­ton­ista’s by-week, hence why I was lazy with report­ing. But my spies tell me the scores were:

• Xero 338 to Mighty Boost­’s 378
• Fur­ry Fer­als on 438 to the Pur­ple Cobra’s 378

With Jamesh from the Pur­ple Cobras get­ting an extra league point for fastest bowl, the scores cur­rent­ly look like this:

Bowl­ing­ton­ista: 2
Fur­ry Fer­als: 15
Mighty Boost: 8
Pur­ple Cobras: 9
Xero: 2

See you tonight for more excite­ment!

If you want 24 hours of madness, you’ve gotta pay for it!

There’s a par­tic­u­lar kind of per­son who likes to watch movies for 24 hours in a row, and it’s quite like­ly that you’re that per­son. Luck­i­ly for you, Ant Timp­son puts on a fes­ti­val to pro­vide you with exact­ly what you need. Unluck­i­ly for him, and ulti­mate­ly for you, tick­ets for the Welling­ton event aren’t sell­ing as well as they should, so unless you hur­ry up and buy your tick­ets for the Decem­ber 13 event now from Tick­etek, it may not hap­pen at all! Full email after the jump.

WBL 2008 Round One: Results and a new table

So much love to every­one who showed up last night (and espe­cial­ly to X who bowled for the Bowl­ing­ton­ista as we were a mem­ber down).

The Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury from Click­suite (bid on their auc­tions!) end­ed up beat­ing the Bowl­ing­ton­ista by just a cou­ple of points at 462 vs. 281, and the Pur­ple Cobras took the Mighty Boost 402 vs. 338. The league point for top score obvi­ous­ly went to the Fer­als, and although the Pur­ple Cobras had sash­es, in the end the Fer­als won best dressed too, for their ties and one play­er’s gold satin shirt. Xero were on their by-week, and as I had­n’t decid­ed until now that you can get a league point in your by-week by some mem­ber of your team show­ing up to hang out with the oth­er bowlers, they’re cur­rent­ly at the bot­tom of the league, but I’m sure they’ll pick up next week when the extra league bonus point will be for the sin­gle fastest bowl on the night.

So this is how things stand at the moment, point­wise:
Bowl­ing­ton­ista:2
Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury: 8
The Mighty Boost:2
Pur­ple Cobras:6
Xero: 0

After the jump, there’s a new table of games, since Xero have joined, includ­ing by-weeks, in which you’re encour­aged to exper­i­ment with your sex­u­al­i­ty, or come along to cheer for the oth­er teams.

The Welingtonista Bowling League 2008 table

So this year we have only four teams, which means that the league will play out over three action-packed weeks start­ing at 6.30pm tomor­row night.

Round one (Sep­tem­ber 25):

• Bowl­ing­ton­ista vs. Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury
• The Mighty Boost vs. The Pur­ple Cobras

Round two (Octo­ber 2):

• Bowl­ing­ton­ista vs. The Mighty Boost
• Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury vs. The Pur­ple Cobras

Round three (Octo­ber 9):

• Bowl­ing­ton­ista vs The Pur­ple Cobras
• The Mighty Boost vs. Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury

Results will be post­ed as we go along, accord­ing to the afore­men­tioned points sys­tem. Woo haa!

Bus strikes, etc

There won’t be any bus­es tomor­row as you’re no doubt aware, so please use the com­ments sec­tion to offer & request car-pools. I’d offer to dri­ve the New­town­istas in, but instead, I’m get­ting a ride myself at an hour of the morn­ing that I more often asso­ciate with falling asleep time. Wahoo.