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
8 Comments
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
3 Comments
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
6 Comments
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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