What, exactly, is the cor­rect response to take when you’re on the bus with a phantom farter?

I was on a very full #4 on the way home the oth­er even­ing, and for most of the trip, at reg­u­lar inter­vals, the over­whelm­ing pong of a bot­tom-burp would waft its way through the throng.

Of course, if one is of a guilty dis­pos­i­tion like myself, you assume that every­one else assumes that you were the guilty party.

How does one com­port one­self as to make it pat­ently obvi­ous that the cul­prit is not, in fact, one’s own bot­tom?

The Bats and Min­isnap play at the San Fran­cisco Bath­house this Sat­urday 5th April. Get in to hear the Bats new single Crim­son Enemy. A three minute joyride through a sur­real shad­owy land­scape. Get swept along by a clas­sic Bats dance beat with whirl­ing gui­tars and uplift­ing chor­uses.

Any­one who has seen the Bats and Min­isnap live will know that they put on a stun­ning show. Any­one who has­n’t seen them should, it will be a tri­umph.

Anoth­er favour­ite place that has snuck its way into the Cuba Quarter – the bril­liant Peoples Cof­fee from New­town has set up a wicked little gar­age cof­fee spot on Gar­rett St over­look­ing that wacky Glover park.…

Bril­liant organ­ic, fair trade cof­fee for all the usu­al prices and there’s a massive table, cof­fee beans, great magazines – the best new sunny cof­fee spot in town.

www.peoplescoffee.co.nz

To cel­eb­rate get­ting over Hump Day (Wed­nes­day), here’s the first in a series of things that the Wel­ling­tonista is lov­ing right now. Please feel free to add in your own cur­rent loves in the com­ments sec­tion.

• Good Luck­’s out­door tables and $8 cock­tail menu on Tues­days & Wed­nes­days; mango bati­das, rasp­berry caprioskas and plum dai­quiris, oh my!
  
• Olive’s early-bird deal (3 courses for $29 if you’re out by 7:30) is pretty damned good.
• The lem­on-lime sher­bert cock­tail at Super­fino: sorbet, limon­cello, Ketel One vodka and Fox­ton Fizz Lime.
• The $17 anti­pasto plat­ter at Kil­li­as in New­town, over­flow­ing with cho­ri­zo, salami, meat­balls, mush­rooms, grilled pep­pers, olives, deli­cious fresh ciabatta, dips and an impress­ive bread­stick struc­ture.
  
• Port Cafe have brought back their sep­ar­ate takeaway menu, start­ing at $10 for 2 crumbed fish & chips, and get­ting cheap­er as you buy in bulk.

Mighty Mighty are really start­ing to use their Face­book group well although a little more notice is prob­ably a good thing – this one had a Wed­nes­day entry and I did­n’t get it until Thursday, doh!

It has been so long since we caught up!

We definately should meet for a drink some­time 🙂

Shall we say MIGHTY MIGHTY?

I am avail­able these days:

THU 3rd – New Zea­l­and legend Jay Clarkson,and Tom Wat­son (Cas­sette).

FRI 4th – Old school Ska Big Band,The YOOTS!

SAT 5th – Garage!Country!Surf!,here comes the Sons of Midas!

what say you?

p.s. Keep a close eye on the MM face­book as we will be run­ning some GIVEAWAYS to gigs etc 😀

you know you want it 🙂

It’s not often a true blue hero bowls up into town and let’s you poke around their innards but it’s happened!

The fam­ous Green­peace boat, Rain­bow War­ri­or, that you’ll have seen on TV tuss­ling with the Japan­ese whale hunt­ing ships in the South­ern ocean is cur­rently moored up on Queens Wharf.

On Sat­urday and Sunday they’re giv­ing free tours of the boat.

OK, so a fly can get snarky occa­sion­ally, but there’s plenty to get excited about. The new Chews Lane has finally opened, and while only two of the hos­pit­al­ity busi­nesses there have opened so far (Fresh Take for salady sand­wichy stuff, great for pre­vent­ing dia­betes, and Emporio for some sweet, sweet caf­feine), two more (Gotham and 3C) are due to open tomor­row and next week respect­ively. Gotham looks to be mostly a day-time café, but it will be licensed. 3C (named after the early build­ing own­ers, the Colo­ni­al Car­ry­ing Com­pany) will be a “gastro bar”, and while that con­jures up awfully Hope Bros-ish images, a peek through the win­dows reveals some rel­at­ively inter­est­ing touches to the decor, so it could be worth a try.

There are plenty more (re)openings on the hori­zon: after the jump.