Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One – there are so many parallels with the current Rump administration, and so many audacious acts of a tyrant who could not give a shit about people on any planet than his own. Blowing up Luke’s home, blowing up Alderaan, demolishing the East Wing, these are all acts of a psychopath. But also…
My fledgling tender buds that started to like Chris Bishop and think that he may have a brain in his body have been trampled on. I’ve gone back to thinking that he is a complete and utter plonker, because, well, dickish behaviour. In short: He has put the RONS back on the table. Most of it goes to Auckland, where roads reign supreme, and logic fails…
Events of the weekend have left me in a slightly more positive mood than before, as at last there are some signs of moral rectitude stirring in ‘Murica. All over the country, from New York and Boston across the country to LA and San Fran, down to Texas and Saint Louis, Democrats have been taking to the streets and walking, marching, demonstrating, using their constitutional right…
We seem to be increasing our density, but so far have made a bit of a cock-up of most of the apartment block scene in Wellington – and even more so in Auckland. As I pass through the town I look around me at the buildings Wellington has created over the last 20 years – and while the Office towers are a mixed bag, some good,…
I know that we might not live in the world’s most sophisticated architectural arena down here at the arse end of the world, but this picture that had the audatiousness to come across my desk top really takes the cake. I am honestly, truthfully, deeply shocked that anyone in NZ could produce work as shit as this and still hold their head up. I’ve blotted out…
It is absolutely fantastic that Minister Chris Penk (and others? Bish?) have listened to the people and proposed to do something about the terrible mess we have got ourselves in, in central Aotearoa. I’m sure you all know the back story – we’ve had the whole country quoting numbers that not many people really understand, such as “my house is only 30% of NBS” and “earthquake…
Although I proposed to retire from the post of official Fish, it seems that the Eye of the Fish lingers on. We’ve had a couple of nibbles at the line, and a couple of offers from other fish who want to monetise it (no thanks – I think it is better off being the last plaice on earth that is free from the evils of advertising…
RNZ News headline today: “Govt spends $10m to fix national war memorial bells, fires only person who can play” The government spent over $10 million to do up the country’s bell tower that plays for fallen soldiers, but is now getting rid of the only person who plays it. The country’s sole carillonist, Timothy Hurd, has been playing the bells – 74 of them, totalling 70…
Sorry team – my willpower to write is gone. Too much death and tragedy in the world and not enough caring about the architecture around us. I’m done. So, searching for a new Author to take this on. Maybe find a new purpose in life? (For the blog, not for me – well, OK, for me as well). If you’re keen, leave a comment here, or…
It is deeply sad and rather ironic that the day that the submissions for the Gordon Wilson Housing Scholarship close wth NZIA, the Minister of Everything announces in his usual manner that the Gordon Wilson flats are now “gone burger”. I know that I may be preaching into the ether here, with no one else sticking up for them, but the ironic thing is that the…