Open­ing tonight at the Film Archive (this one well worth a look) is artist Nova Paul’s exper­i­men­ta­tion with the bright bold world of Tech­ni­col­or.

Part trip­py, wan­der­ing colourscape, part high­ly tech­ni­cal process, film geeks and art lovers will drool over this one…while many should remem­ber her work from last year’s Prospect show at the City Gallery.

Plus she’s pre­sent­ing a screen­ing of some of her works along­side Tech­ni­col­or gems from the Archive’s vault on Thurs­day 5 June — includ­ing the fas­ci­nat­ing Tuber­cu­lo­sis: How it spreads: How to pre­vent it (1954, Mor­row Pro­duc­tions, NZ)

Open­ing tonight 5:30pm at the Film Archive. Exhi­bi­tion runs til Sat­ur­day 21 June.

As a fly, I am obvi­ous­ly dis­gust­ing and there­fore a Nation­al vot­er. But it is entire­ly pos­si­ble that you are a bet­ter per­son than me, and you might,therefore, be inter­est­ed in min­gling with oth­ers who are that way inclined, which is where this email we received might come in handy:

Drink­ing Lib­er­al­ly — pro­mot­ing democ­ra­cy one pint at a time
Like pol­i­tics? Like drink­ing? If you answered yes to both these ques­tions then join us for the launch of Drink­ing Lib­er­al­ly, a fort­night­ly event aimed at build­ing ties among left-lean­ing peo­ple. So come along on Wednes­day, grab your­self a pint and meet our guest speak­er Nan­dor Tanc­zos, Green MP.

WHAT Launch of Drink­ing Lib­er­al­ly Welling­ton
WHEN 6pm, Wed 21st May
WHERE South­ern Cross, Abel Smith Street
SPEAKER Nan­dor Tanc­zos, Green MP
CONTACT wellington@drinkingliberally.org

An order of 15 cof­fees is a lot. I know that. But when I go into a cafe, such as Espres­so­holic on Courte­nay Place, this is not the exchange I expect.

Me: …long list of cof­fees…
Espres­so­holic Per­son: That’s a lot, that’ll take [the two baris­tas] ages to do.
Me: (in my head) Yes but I will pay you mon­ey in exchange for these good and ser­vices.
Me: (in real­i­ty) Oh well I can go to anoth­er place if it’s a prob­lem…
E‑hole: No. It’s just…(mutter mut­ter)

As time goes by a queue forms behind me, because it does take a long time to make 15 cof­fees (a fact which I aware of before mak­ing my order). Do the staff maybe take orders so that these poor folk don’t have to stand and wait? Nope. Obvi­ous­ly I’m the ass­hole hold­ing up the line with my unrea­son­able demands for cof­fee in a cof­fee shop. So the order was com­plet­ed and the var­i­ous cof­fee types point­ed out.

E‑Hole: …and that’s the long black
Me: Sor­ry, I ordered two long blacks
E‑Hole: No I just made one.
Me: (pause for thought) ok.

I paid and left. And final­ly E‑holic, I can do with­out the sneer­ing too, thanks.

So let’s say you’re a lit­tle bit unhinged, and you’re tired of pick­ing up hook­ers on Mar­i­on Street and then run­ning them over. What you real­ly want is to stay home and play Grand Theft Auto, but you hate the fake New York­ness of it all, and wish it could be a lit­tle bit more like home. Well we’ve got just the link for you — skin your game so that the police cars, taxis and ambu­lances are all famil­iar Welling­ton sights!

And of course, what’s a GTA sto­ry with­out some moral out­rage sur­pris­ing­ly sup­port­ive com­men­tary from Break­fast News?

The feud com­mences. I quite like the cur­mud­geon role.

Rob Olsen, the edi­tor of the Welling­ton­ian has respond­ed to my request that The Welling­ton­ista “Addressed Mail Only” sign be respect­ed:

What is your house address?
Rob Olsen, edi­tor, The Welling­ton­ian
474 0147
editor@thewellingtonian.co.nz

To which I replied:

Does that mat­ter?
It’s the one with an “Addressed mail only” sign.
Please respect my wish­es.

Because we’re super heroes dude, we can’t go giv­ing our address out to the media, peo­ple would come & see us chang­ing into our tights & capes.

Which got me this:

Is it 1 Wood­ward Street? It mat­ters if you want the paper stopped.

It’s not, and I think it unfair to all the oth­er “Addressed Mail Only” sign own­ers that we have to per­son­al­ly plead with any­one, to stop putting unwant­ed stuff on our prop­er­ty.

But Rob says it’s out of his hands. It’s the “Sys­tem”.

With­out an address I can’t act. We have to instruct the com­pa­ny that deliv­ers the paper not to deliv­er to spe­cif­ic address­es. “Addressed Mail Only” is obvi­ous­ly not enough info. I am sor­ry to have to labour this point but that’s the sys­tem. Oth­er­wise I sug­gest you take it up with my man­ag­er Diane Clay­ton on 474 0362.
Rob Olsen, edi­tor, The Welling­ton­ian
474 0147
editor@thewellingtonian.co.nz

The first unstamped Foolscap enve­lope bear­ing the two copies of the Welling­ton­ian that were deliv­ered last week should be arriv­ing on Rob’s desk today or tomor­row.

That’s “The Sys­tem” at work.

It’s all going on this Sat­ur­day after­noon in the south­ern sub­urbs. For a start, at Solan­der; works on paper in Lyall Bay is the open­ing of the show Near and Far: New prints by Kyla Cress­well and Inge Does­burg.

If any fur­ther induce­ments are required to guar­an­tee your atten­dance, we have been assured that bub­bles will be being served between 1 — 3pm.

Click on the image (above) to view the full invite, includ­ing a map to the gallery.

A ques­tion of com­pre­hen­sion:

A sign say­ing “Addressed mail only” on a let­ter­box means:

a) only items specif­i­cal­ly addressed to an occu­pant of the premis­es to be post­ed in the let­ter­box?

b) who knows? Bung the junkmail in any­way?

Please note, we’ll be mail­ing any fur­ther copies dropped in the Welling­ton­ista let­ter­box (just below the “addressed mail only” sign) back to you with­out postage. Until it stops.

Remem­ber that time that I went to Capi­tol for a Serisen wine din­ner that cost $85 and was frick­ing amaz­ing? Well it turns out that there’s some­thing sim­i­lar hap­pen­ing every month at Cel­lar-Vate, but for only $35! Holy crap! So, in order to inves­ti­gate this phe­nom­e­non for you, my dear read­er, my fear­less din­ing com­pan­ion Karen and I sub­ject­ed our­selves to six cours­es of food matched with Clearview wines last night. Oh the human­i­ty.

It’s such a hard­ship to sit down to dine with new peo­ple just wait­ing to become your friends, Rachel from Cel­lar­vate who took the time to explain her menu selec­tions, and two peo­ple from the win­ery to chat to. Food was served on com­mu­nal plates, and while it was­n’t huge amounts of any­thing, even Karen and I, who do like our food a lot, left sat­is­fied. You need to go to Cel­lar Vate on Molesworth and ask them to put you on their mail­ing list so you can come along to the next din­er. The menu after the jump.

For the last few weeks there’s been an air of rockin’ excite­ment pass­ing around Cap­i­tal City… and lots of flights being booked down here from that place up north that hous­es the Auck­lan­dista. Rem­i­nisc­ing on social net­work­ing sites has reached a fren­zied peak and the rumours have been proved true — the Has­sel­hoff Exper­i­ment are reform­ing for a once-only show this week­end in Welling­ton.
More after the jump.…

Every­one loves a good apos­tro­phe cat­a­stro­phe. I was delight­ed to find this one at a chemist near the train sta­tion:

ORLY?

I was think­ing maybe it’s a prod­uct name, like “Dr Fight­’s Cold & Flu Rem­e­dy”, but real­is­ti­cal­ly it seems like just anoth­er sad case of a hor­ri­bly mis­placed apos­tro­phe.

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