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Kiritapu
There are many different ways to honour the people who shape us. We present awards and bestow honours for remarkable achievements, adding letters at the end of names like “ONZ” or “QSM” or prefixing...
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Goodbye to all that, with added spraycans
There are ways of saying goodbye to your home. Ours involved realising the garage was getting demolished too, and grabbing stuff out of it as quick as we could. At 38 Cranford Street, they are saying...
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Why New Zealand is pretty great.
Disclosure: This is not a cooking review. It is also not about politics. There is a lot going on in New Zealand at the moment, and most of it is pretty dark. Every day I wake up and I read about...
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Let’s not be dicks
So this isn’t going to make me very popular but I don’t care. I did a post defending the media. I said they were made up of human beings. I said we shouldn’t be abusive towards them. I said we should...
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A letter to New Zealand
Look at this face! Who could stay mad at this face? Hello New Zealand It’s Dave here. How you been? Some of you have seemed quite angry lately. Are you cool? Are things ok? Shall we hug it out? We...
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You guys are so choice
So yesterday after repeated emails from my webhost I finally caved and upgraded our hosting plan because we exceeded our monthly cap by quite a bit (in fact if I look at the stats, we had over 50,000...
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A writer writes: who am I?
Portrait of an existential crisis I’ve been doing this blog for about 18 months now, give or take. It’s been fun. There have been some wonderful contributions from a wide variety of authors. Choice. In...
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Musings of a teacher on the cusp of retirement
By a teacher who is getting old. I can see my own teachers shouting and rolling in their graves, how did she become a teacher?! I was a teacher’s nightmare, little concentration (disengagement it is...
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The Nickelback Effect
Look at Chad’s crotch. LOOK AT IT. Thirteen years ago I (allegedly) stole my first piece of digital media – and I have been on the run ever since. It was the dawn of the new millennium, and I had...
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Werecreatures, zines, and metal
There has been lots to see and do in Christchurch in the past week. Come indulge in some flânerie with me. Here be metal. On Victoria Street. At the old Bus Exchange in Lichfield Street. The demolition...
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Ask a Slightly Slutty Barren Spinster anything
Dear Ruminator Readers, I have long been a fan of this website. Lord Sutch is my favourite NZ political commentator. I rate his writing higher than that of Danyl McLaughlan, Toby Manhire, Rob Salmond...
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How do I hit on people safely? Our first agony aunt response!
Our first letter to our slightly slutty barren spinster was a very topical one. One where our protagonist is clearly paying attention to the world around him and needs some old fashioned tips on...
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Anatomy of a fuck up
So yesterday was a fun time. We had the IGSIS report into Key’s shenanigans, the report “clearing” Judith Collins of wrongdoing and then shit got real in Ferguson. Now the first two I’m relatively...
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Possibly wanted: one curator
YOU Hello Ruminator readers Due to a number of circumstances, there’s a chance that I will no longer be able to curate/edit/write for this blog. This makes me sad inside but also excited. This isn’t...
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A letter to New Zealand
Look at this face! Who could stay mad at this face? Hello New Zealand It’s Dave here. How you been? Some of you have seemed quite angry lately. Are you cool? Are things ok? Shall we hug it out? We...
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Ruminator’s 2014 Person of the Year
Close. But not quite. Following on from last year’s controversial decision to award Ruminator’s Person of the Year to Miley Cyrus, I took some suggestions from the Twitterazis as to who it should be...
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Have modern kids got game? My parents decide
I’m going to start an infrequent series where my parents are going to assess the dating rituals of today’s youth. But for this to happen I need YOUR help. If you use a dating app, or a website (such...
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There IS an app for Moral Outrage
I was sent an article to read by sometime-Ruminator author Jarrod Baker; it was about Twitter shaming. The article can be read here. It’s based on the Justine Sacco incident when she tweeted that she...
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How Presidents & Assholes is really an allegory for the left wing view of life
Oh JFK, you card. Over the weekend just gone, I was at a social gathering where someone suggested we play Presidents and Assholes (or just “Presidents” as some may know it). If you’re unfamiliar with...
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State of the Union
I haven’t really been blogging much lately. I haven’t really felt like there was something that I should talk about. So in the spirit of sustaining content (dynamic website! Not static!), I thought I’d...
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