Date:	2008-09-03 15:08
Subject:	Cough - Is this thing on???
Security:	Public
Mood:	working

Waking from deep hibernation, I am here to say this:

A scratch ‘n’ sniff cover is just one of the delights awaiting readers who visit the pages of web-based retailer New Zealand Books Abroad during New Zealand Book Month celebrations in September.

The adventurous cover belongs to the long awaited book by award winning photographer Skip Wastemaster. Made from recycled pizza boxes, the book also includes a CD soundscape of seagull cries.

Skip was awarded Envirotographer of the Year in 2007 and his new book The Natural Magic of New Zealand’s Landfills is a celebration of this country’s most picturesque and often overlooked refuse stations. Packed with Skip’s characteristic brooding and iconic images, the diversity of our rubbish dumps are illustrated for all to enjoy.

The Natural Magic of New Zealand’s Landfills by Skip Wastemaster is only available from web-based retailer New Zealand Books Abroad as part of a special promotion for New Zealand Book Month.

Visitors to New Zealand Books Abroad during September are invited to enter a competition to win more than $1,300 worth of real New Zealand books by spotting four others like this one.


Have at it!!


 

This wee article made me smile - and while I haven't read the Penguin History yet (though do own it), I have read the bone people

and quite enjoyed it, though I was in a country far, far, away...

I think everyone should have one of these

Please to be reading the reviews...

Date:	2005-10-13 12:33
Subject:	Hooray Harry!
Security:	Public
Mood:	drained
Music:	I'll Say Goodbye - Exponents

Just a wee nickname-joke there, move on.

I are being on my own at work for the next couple of weeks or so! Fantastiche! Put Madam Boss on a plane last night (well, Mr Boss did - I just saw her off the property) to Frankfurt.

I can breathe now. I can lie down. I can think. Woohoo.

I may even do some work.

I won't be living it up too much, however. I am on MAJOR savings count-down if I want to eat while away in December.

Visitors to the Treehouse welcome - ring first, I may be sleeping out at the post office...

Well, at least till next time.

Have a mate who had a party. Had I eaten much before I went? I think not, stinky puppy. But what's a little wine between friends.

I believe there was celery involved......


Am feeling slightly whelmed with the world. Could be part of the hangover still, I guess, but it was hiding in the shadows before teh night of doom.

All very Alice's White Rabbit

Date:	2005-09-04 22:53
Subject:	Meer Pong!
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy

Heh - went to Sin City again today - took my sister - it stood up to a second screening - though it is a damnably long film.

Dinner with the clitorati this evening - came away with a goodie bag including two pairs of trousers and a map of Canada - go me!

And because my brain is mush, here are some links instead:

Um, because he can?

English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that.

multimedia poetry (mit sound)

really quite fond of this Meer Pong

Date:	2005-09-01 15:36
Subject:	*SWIPEHISS*
Security:	Public
Mood:	cranky
Music:	Without a Song - Art Tatum

harrismint is not playing well with the other children today. I am thinking of sending her home to reconsider her lack of action and dutiful responses.

I blame the northerly.


and because it made me laugh:
LOLZ

Date:	2005-08-28 20:07
Subject:	music meme
Security:	Public
Mood:	chipper

cos I KNOW y'all are dying to know the answers...

Date:	2005-08-28 19:01
Subject:	Two weeks without Madam Boss (w00t!)
Security:	Public
Mood:	accomplished
Music:	Poor Man's Shangri-La — Ry Cooder — Chavez Ravine

Yesterday, I received big_ted's Music meme in CD form - Hurrah! (I have one for nzlemming too). From what I have heard so far, it is a great mix. Might run off one of my own and return the favour.

I went to the Women's Expo today with Miss E - not a lot of new stuff: variations on the themes of alternative health (aura reading anyone?); beauty care (wanna smear Emu kack on yourself?); fitness (gym memberships, exercycles, pole-dancing?)

Wait, back up the truck, wtf?? Right in the middle of mid-line, conservative stalls (husband and wife team opposite - bet she was pleased) was a pole-dancing stall. With a pole. And a dancer. The first thing I noticed were the track marks up her arm. Noice. Think they were promoting fitness - uh-huh.

From a distance, I spotted snottygrrl but by the time I'd realised it was her (Eeyore confirmed my suspicions) she had disappeared into the maelstrom of pole-dancing wannabes.

Best line of the day was an underwhelmed Miss E saying, upon departure, that she "didn't want to be a woman anymore - wanna go see what the Men's Expo's got"

Link dump (cos I'm geeking out on RSS feeds):

What those Masons really got up to.
Well dodgy scottish near-pron (not good for dial-up, gotta love Alan Cumming)
The rule for today.
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow.
more cat Haiku
Unhitched
Dave Matthews is over himself

Your word is BUGGER. You are generally quite
restrained, but sometimes your anger or
frustration come to the surface and it all
comes out. Yet you somehow can't stop sounding
polite, despite it all.


Which Swear (Curse) Word Are You?
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snottygrrl has flicked on a meme that now I wish I hadn't seen and someone get me some bleach for my mind's eye...


1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answers )

1.Shuffle your playlist.
2. Of the first 30 songs that come up, no matter how embarassing, put your favourite lyric on your LJ. Try not to include the title.
3. Open season to your f-list to see who can guess the most songs.
4. Strike the songs off as they are guessed correctly.
5. Mock severely those whose tase does not coincide with yours.

ETA: for answers and winners of points! Your prize is in the mail....

( Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit )

Y'all come back now , y'hear!

Date:	2005-08-17 21:15
Subject:	Linky Love
Security:	Public
Mood:	geeky

Like these: Nice Boobies

Saw this: Sin City

Hey why not? Airborne cats

A bit of garbage Singin' in the rain

Bloggers in history

Drawing of a girl

more boobies

So last night I was at a Film Society gig as the bookseller for The Selling of New Zealand Movies, mit author Lindsay Shelton.

Sold a few books and got to watch the movie. Hmmmm.
Film Society movie I thought - Great! - should be a good movie.
A French movie, I thought - Great! - should be a good one!
A movie about a promiscuous french chick who falls for The Right One - great! Should be lots of french sex and nubile bodies.
A french movie about nubile chick falling for HIV+ - Great! -sure, why not throw in conscience and ethics into the mix.
A french movie with sex, a conscience, addresses gay and straight issues and has pretty people in it THAT IS A MUSICAL?????????

Yep. Can't trust them arty types to deliver the goods. At all.

Arnie's death row tactic

WTF???

Date:	2005-06-26 23:30
Subject:	guilty as charged
Security:	Public
Mood:	accomplished

I make a terrible Wicked Fairy Godmother. I mean what kind of a WFG misses her charge's first birthday?

Personally, I blame the mother technophobic.

I have no back up for this. I just thought blame-shifting might work. Plus I missed her birthday last year, so it seems only fair that I keep it in the family. At least I am consistent.

Had a very busy week that ( involved )

and it all starts again tomorrow! I'm tired already......

This comic strip is fantastiche! iharthdarth Watch out for Revenge of Sith spoilers (like the initial three movies didn't already achieve that!)

grrrrrr grump growl and harumph. Berloddy Filemaker database has corrupted at work and there's no telling exactly where.

Have done 'all the right things" and made so many clones I feel like Jango Fett — 'cept we're not in Guatamala now, Dr Ropata.

Goddamn titty-fucker. That's all I can say.

Date:	2005-06-06 13:12
Subject:	I had an intimate encounter with my bed the other day...
Security:	Public
Mood:	relaxed
Music:	Liars' Bar - Beautiful South

A veritable variety of things have been going on this last week or so. Have been to one play, one funeral, two movies and two wonderful meals out.

I can recommend Wakelin House. A bunch of us had a stunning lunch there and then played a bit in the gentrified shops of Greytown. Slightly wild and windy, but fun nonetheless. Shifting snippets of conversation and hearty banter with blancverse and big_ted, my sister and other whanau was very restoritive.

I can also recommend eating at The Matterhorn, which used to be the place Mum and I would go for a neenish tart and a cup of tea, and is now a deeply groovy joint that is almost too kewl for skewl. But the food and service was lovely.

I went to Sith, (can't be bothered with the full name) at the Embassy on Saturday. When they (Jackson) were restoring the Embassy for the LOTR festivities, Joe Public could sponsor a seat. and I had the rare pleasure of finding myself in snottygrrl's seat! She will be able to tell you that I had a full-on view of the movie!

I have spent the rest of the time in bed with an Upper Respiratory Virus - or Cold to the rest of you. It did done my head in muchly though and I managed to leap into a parallel world ( where being sick and furniture moving should be on the same page. )



I was at work last week for a total of two and a half days (go me!) and am now enjoying a three day weekend (go me, again!).