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Apples, Oranges, Rifles, Shotguns
By Source, Fair use, Link I’ve been rewriting and rewriting a post about comparing the experience of watching a four-hour headache-inducing director’s cut of a blockbuster with a tender and...
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Wheel Reinventing
A life-size horse lamp because A LIFE-SIZE HORSE LAMP. (Without permission from www.droold.com.) Late last year, I got asked to work up a little something that would probably open with — BASED ON A...
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Plan v Life
Yes, 2020 was quite the year. I had plans: people I’d worked with in the preceding years also had plans that were progressing, and those progressing plans’ becoming could/would/should have made 2020,...
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2020 in Pixels and Points (and Sweat)
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link Features enjoyed: Uncut Gems Judy Blades of Glory Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Tell Me Who I Am By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link Television...
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Lit
INT. DEN, FORTRESS MAMEA -- AFTERNOON THE LOVELY WIFE, a slab of “Owner Builder” MAGAZINES on her lap, glances up at her PET WRITER’s reading: a NOVEL by [a very famous New Zild writer]. THE LOVELY...
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WE ARE MANY: a clinic
Last weekend, Playmarket provided a one-day clinic for We Are Many, a newish play inspired by the Womens Mau Movement who continued passive resistance against the New Zealand occupation in 1930s Samoa....
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Walking Dead Forever
Without permission from undeadwalking.com. This time last year, I opened up issue 192 of The Walking Dead and did my usual first-pass read — the kind of breath-held-whaat’s-happeniiing-neeeext...
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Fourteen Years
If you muffle the speakers a little, I think this might… Okay, it’s a stretch. But I do like this song. And since this is my website where I am the master of all that passes through it, it’s what we’re...
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Layers
You’ve seen the shorthand in films: a paintbrush applying one layer of paint on canvas, then another, then another. It’s how I write most scripts: an iterative approach where I can look back at the...
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Sweat
Sweat spot on the swimming pool deck. According to my exercise journal, I’ve huffed and puffed more often in the past month than in any other one month period over the last two decades. Government...
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Comfort Reading
Without permission from cbr.com (https://www.cbr.com/committed-marshal-law-the-most-underrated-book-in-comics/). My productivity has plummeted as I compulsively refresh news sites and follow social...
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No Funny Business
INT. CINEMA, FORTRESS MAMEA -- DAY Our PET WRITER feeds Mallowpuffs into his mouth at a concerning rate of knots considering his age while he watches the TELEVISION: ON SCREEN A Hero-type opens a door...
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Hatchlings
It’s that time of year when baby birds drop out of nests — or nests themselves drop out of trees — and whomever chances across such sights must decide between nurture or nature. Much as I front as a...
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2019 in Pixels and on Stage
It hasn’t all been writing and commuting and writing this year. Though, to be honest, what year ever is? By Source, Fair use, Link Enjoyed on the big screen: Widows Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse...
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What I Did This Year — Part Three
This is the view of Wellington from the International Institute of Modern Letters’ work room: Contrary to The Lovely Wife‘s opinion of Wellington weather, this was how the city looked most days I met...
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What I Did This Year — Part Two
There’s a lot of ground to cover in this part, so let’s leave the pictures to do the talking. In March, The Boy was in a frightful car accident and was hospitalised for a month. Fill* and The Boy —...
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What I Did This Year — Part One
Late last year, I had the brilliant idea of doing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. The University of Auckland offers an equivalent MA and is only a couple of hours drive south of Fortress Mamea,...
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Hello 2019
A quick jaunt to the Big Smoke and an opportune snap. Yeah, hey ’19 and goodbye ’18. Posting has been patchy alright but I thought the least I could do is warble a little while it’s a bit quiet. I gave...
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2018 in Pixels
By Source, Fair use, Link Enjoyed on the big screen: Ice King: John Curry Juliet, Naked Jusqu’a la garde (Custody) Lady Bird Lady Macbeth Mystery Road Puzzle Small Town Crime Wind River You Were Never...
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Welp
With the festive season screaming towards us, I flashed on this moment in that 1986 classic, Critters: I leave the interpretation of relevance to you, dear reader. Have fun, and be safe.
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