Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Acknowledgements page as self-promotion and commercial message. Ha!
For my author friends … a description of the ‘undercurrent of faux-modest self-promotion [which] runs like a viral strain throughout every acknowledgments page’. (We refer to them as ‘Ackowledgements’ — an inside joke after an unfortunate and undetected-until-too-late typographical error.) A lively, little-bit-snarky, enjoyable read: Against Acknowledgments by Sam Sacks at the New Yorker magazine. […]
My Side versus The Other Side. (Just beautiful)
Unspeakably good satire (or something) about two party politics and human nature from A. Barton Hinkle at Reason.com: The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win … it’s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger – unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, […]
John Banks ‘absolutely’ supports campaign donation law reform. With a straight face!
Following up on Laughing all the way to the Banks …
National MP Jami-Lee Ross is just left of Hell
I don’t know local National MP Jami-Lee Ross’s position on gay marriage or the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill but I surely can’t be the first to notice that his taxpayer-funded electorate office shares a frontage (and what else???) with HELL … Hmmm. Not a good sign, d’ya think? 🙂 – P pic: Barfoot […]
I wonder how common this combination is?
From a blogger’s potted bio on a review of the excellent Scrivener software I use: About Brian xxxxxxx Computer programmer by day; horror and post-apocalyptic thriller writer by night. Bless him! – P (Reminds me of you JT.)
Egregious
When I gently pointed to what some might call errors in this notice I was assured the threat of being shot on the premises was what was intended. Really. – P
Upstaging an important public moment
I spotted this statement from Susan Benn on behalf of the Julian Assange Defence Fund over the weekend, which makes some good points about the challenge the Swedish and British authorities (surely) must be having trying to maintain the pretense that they’re treating Julian Assange as they would any other ‘person of interest’. The ludicrous […]
Taking the pfiss out of John Key
Wow. The honeymoon is well-and-truly over: Here’s open comment that the NZ Prime Minister is routinely observed “fibbing, hiding something or not totally convinced by [his] own argument”. ‘How are the mighty fallen!’1 This is just as devastating, in a different way, as what a former NZ Herald editor said in John Key’s media whack-a-mole […]
Cat 1 – Blow-up giraffe 0
I came out to the lounge this morning and … – P see also: I think my cat must read my blog
Trust us …
No further comment necessary. – P
Alan Bollard’s doppleganger is Sheriff Joe?
In the news for keeping the Official Cash Rate low at two-point-five percent and pushing out the track for future rate hikes … In the news, justifying the arrest of a six-year-old girl (an alleged illegal immigrant) … Wow.
Artificial intelligence rebels again …
Remember the last Siri spoof? The garage band guy who wanted his phone to call him a ‘rock god‘? And this, harder-edged one‘? Here’s another take-off of an Apple iPhone ad … (If you’re having trouble viewing the video, try watching at the Team Coco site) via Huffington Post
Douglas Adams on … the universe
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Rodney Hide, boy genius.
I knew Rodney Hide back when he was still using a Cassiopeia and I was using Psion Series 3a. (We used to compare features.) While he’s a pleasant man, and I personally like him, he’s never struck me as an intellectual powerhouse… So it was intriguing recently to read in the NBR online his vapid […]
