Monthly Archives: October 2011

Back when I was a child, I was briefly involved in some very typical student controversy that made the news for a couple of days. It was all fairly ridiculous, but I guess it seemed like a big deal at … Continue reading →

I’m sure he won’t mind me saying. Kea & Cattle founder and main writer, the redoubtable Andrew Dean, has become Ashburton’s latest Rhodes Scholar. Asked his feelings on receiving the news, Dean was reticent. “Yeah mate, I’m stoked”–before turning back … Continue reading →

Beginning my day in the usual way, titillating myself with a quick run-through of my favourite celebrity gossip site, catching up on Courtney Love’s honorary patronage of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, George Clooney’s slide into painful self-parody, and Lindsay Lohan’s … Continue reading →

My oft-stated assertion in the “build-up” to the RWC was that this thing would be the last hurrah of a dying myth–the myth of NZ’s rugby obsession, of the All Blacks as national icons, all that jazz. The never-adverted-to (but … Continue reading →