Palm Beach, Waiheke Island.
If you are ever in Auckland take the ferry across, it's well worth it.
T
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Waiheke
Yesterday I spent the day on one of the most beautiful beaches in Auckland.
Palm Beach, Waiheke Island.
If you are ever in Auckland take the ferry across, it's well worth it.
T
Palm Beach, Waiheke Island.
If you are ever in Auckland take the ferry across, it's well worth it.
T
What I think about you
This is that skype contact list thing that's been going around. At first I thought it was a dumb idea, but it's actually really interesting to read and guess who you think the people are. And it was a nice release to write this with some level of anonymity to the subjects.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
- I don't really talk to you much, in fact I think we've talked twice, ever. You added me so I don't know why it's so hard for us to have a conversation.
- You crack me up. We used to have a few late nighters and I'd be rofling to all hours of the night. One of these days I'll come see ya.
- You're an awesome kid and it sucks that you live so far away and are kind of cut off, can't wait to see you in a few weeks...
- You're pretty much a common presence around the place nowadays. Its been nice knowing you and you are so much more motivated to make videos than I am. I wish I shared your enthusiasm.
- I <3 you Minnie. More than Skype will let me show.
- Everytime I try to talk to you you come off as a dick. I know you can be nice, because I've heard such cool things from other people. I think you show off too much around your friends.
- You are one of the most intelligent and insightful people on my list. Strangely I've talked to you a lot more than a lot of the others on my list. I look forward to working on your media team, Mr PM.
- You steal my friends and piss me off constantly. And then I always look like the bad guy when I try to explain how you make my blood boil, I wish you would go away.
- We have gotten to know eachother a whole lot over the past year-ish. And I know you better than you think I do. As much as we talk, you never listen to my advice, but still expect my help when you screw up. I suspect this is because you are jealous of some of the other friendships I have.
- You are the funniest person I have met from YouTube. Videos do not do your humour and wit justice. You are one of those enigmas that must be seen in person to understand. I'm glad we met, and glad we've become such good friends.
- Of all the people I have ever talked to online, no one has changed me as much as you have. I still don't know what to think about the things we talk about... but I'm happy just going along for the ride.
- You are one funny Australian and you deserve a fuckload more subscribers than you have. I like how you suggest music to me which I immediately hate, then come crawling back to you a few weeks later and admit that I love it. Good stuff.
- We've become really good friends through all of this, and I'm glad. I am really humbled by how much you trust me and tell me things. I'm glad you feel we're that close.
- You need to watch your mouth sometimes. You're a good guy, but for fuck's sake think about what you do before you do it.
- You are my son. We don't talk much, but I am very proud of you. No matter what's going on in your real life, remember I think you're awesome just as you are. No lie.
- We go way back. Since before Skype. Since before YouTube. Since before Facebook. You are my oldest friend on this list, and my best one too. If it wasn't for you I probably wouldn't have come to meet so many awesome people, thanks for pushing me... even if you didn't always notice you were doing it.
- You make me wish I lived in the south. And I wish we talked more, you opened up a whole new group of people for me and I love you for it. Keep rockin.
- We have a son. You can speak a crazy language that I can't even pretend to understand. You are an all around awesome person, and I mean that 100%. I wish we talked a lot more than we do though.
- You've kept me on my toes ever since we first started talking. I consider you one of my best friends from all of this, and I know you feel the same way. I'm glad that you've chosen to share your ups and your downs with me and I think I probably know you better than anyone else from this crazy internet world. You can cry to me any time. Or laugh. Or anything. No matter what happens with this year, you'll always be my partner in Disney fandom. Still waiting for Kiss The Girl.
- I have such an awesome time talking to you that I wonder why I don't do it more often, then I remember it's because you've been sucked into that group that turns real exclusive and I never feel cool enough to enter. It's always too awkward.
- I used to have you figured out and thought you were kind of bleh, but in the past week my opinion on you has completely changed. I look forward to hanging out this year.
- You. Are. Beautiful. And I couldn't believe it when you added me. We talk a lot but I wish we talked more. And I wish our conversations didn't always feel so forced.
- I'm waiting for the day you are as comfortable with yourself as everyone else is. You're an awesome kid, but our communication is limited.
- I'm too shy to talk to you because of how awesome you are. It's so intimidating.
- I haven't built up the guts to talk to you yet either, although I really want to. Soon. Do you know?
- Sweeney. You are a sweetheart. I wish we could have long conversations about creative writing and literature and plans for the future like we used to. You are too cool for me.
- I added you because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. We've talked a couple of times. I feel like I have to put so much energy into talking to you that I usually avoid it. I'm sure you're cool but I just can't be fucked with it most of the time.
- I don't think you like me very much at all. I probably give off a vibe though because I think you're kind of creepy.
- I wish you would realise how awesome you are. I hate having to hear my friends doubt themselves, you truely are so much cooler than you think. I'm glad we're friends, for real.
- You were my wife. We've had some up conversations, and some down ones. But I'm happy for both kinds, it makes me realise how alike we are. So alike that it scares me sometimes, you are one of the people who I've become emotionally connected to, for real. I hurt when you hurt.
- You were the first person I met from the internet. You've grown and changed as a person so much since, I'm so stoaked that we're still friends and still talk.
- You are overrated. There is too much hype around you for you to be a normal member of the community anymore.
- I really like talking to you, even though we don't do it much. I think you're incredibly intelligent, but you see through the filter of your studies too much, try seeing through the filter of your heart for once.
- You are the epitome of cute. But you can also kick my ass when I step out of line, and that's the reason I like you. We don't talk one on one so much but that's ok because I don't think we'd have much to talk about.
- Lately you've been MIA and I miss you.
Monday, December 15, 2008
A Sunday in the House of Nanisnap
So last night was my work Christmas party. Free booze. What more can I say?
Fast forward to today and my head is exploding. This morning was not fun. After becoming stranded in the city with no way to get home I had to fork out the big bucks for a cab. I got home at 4.30AM and then had a few uncomfortable hours of work related dreams which involved stacking boxes and Stewie Griffin. At around 9 the heat got to me and I woke up. It took me around an hour to sit up, and then another hour to actually get out of bed and pull some clothes on.
The next few hours were a mix of thumping headaches and that gross taste you get in your mouth just before you throw up. Luckily I didn't throw up today, but it was enough to ruin my mood.
To make things worse my car was still on the North Shore, so I had to find a way over there to pick it up, as well as my keys and camera from someone else's house.
So when I finally made my way to the kitchen, there was absolutely nothing there to eat.
Typical. So I had to survive the morning on nothing more than rice crackers and peanut butter.
Ughhh, this is my hungover face.
K, over blogging.
T
Fast forward to today and my head is exploding. This morning was not fun. After becoming stranded in the city with no way to get home I had to fork out the big bucks for a cab. I got home at 4.30AM and then had a few uncomfortable hours of work related dreams which involved stacking boxes and Stewie Griffin. At around 9 the heat got to me and I woke up. It took me around an hour to sit up, and then another hour to actually get out of bed and pull some clothes on.
The next few hours were a mix of thumping headaches and that gross taste you get in your mouth just before you throw up. Luckily I didn't throw up today, but it was enough to ruin my mood.
To make things worse my car was still on the North Shore, so I had to find a way over there to pick it up, as well as my keys and camera from someone else's house.
So when I finally made my way to the kitchen, there was absolutely nothing there to eat.
Typical. So I had to survive the morning on nothing more than rice crackers and peanut butter.Ughhh, this is my hungover face.
K, over blogging.T
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Lewis Bostock. An Introduction.
Directly copied from The Sinister Bison
"The Unauthorized Biography of Lewis Bostock"
Lewis Bostock.
Prolific blogger. Pathetic YouTuber. Earl Grey enthusiast. Satisfactory lover.
There have been many questions lately about this man. Who is this Lewis Bostock? Where did he come from? What is his message?
The mystery surrounding Mr Bostock has spread faster than horny fangirls in Kerikeri. Ever since his rambunctious debut in Auckland at the New Zealand YouTube Gathering, Bostock has captured the imagination of tens of people who were present.
Bostock's exact history is unknown, but it is known that he is the forbidden spawn of a champagne induced union between a dancer and a candlestick maker from the lofts of Ye Olde England. After a run-in with the local restaurant owner over salad ingredients, the Bostock clan were banished to the prison realm of Australia. Due to the less than satisfactory navigation skills of Lewis though, the family sailed straight past Australia and landed in New Zealand.
Since this outrageous arrival, Lewis Bostock has grown into a man vocal in local politics. He adamantly promotes cultural equality with his fiance, Pansy Wong. He is also a supporter of his local 'Guns Don't Kill People, Ladders Do' Club chapter. In his spare time he likes to cultivate tea leaves and practice divination, and hopes to one day have three children named Earl, Grey and Pansy II.
Bostock has also created somewhat of a fashion revolution in the Albany area of Auckland. Style commentators are calling Bostock followers the 'Scarf Army' in reference to the uniform skinny scarf, as mandated by the Church of Bostock. Other trends include thick framed glasses and evening robes.
One certainty in the life of The Bostock is the presence of Earl Grey Tea. To say he is reliant on the substance would be a gross understatement. Followers have noted Bostock's incessant craving for the tea, and many believe this to be the source of his power. His brain power, that is.
And that is just it. Even with the little we know about his history and origin, his sheer vocabulatary (yes, he created that word) power and robe-wearing skills overshadow even my biographical writing talent.
All of these qualities are what make up this absent member of the New Zealand YouTube community. This pompous Earl Grey drinking, robe wearing, film review writing, proclamation making British import. This bespeckled knight of film making. This man of internet mystery.
This Lewis Bostock.
"The Unauthorized Biography of Lewis Bostock"
Lewis Bostock.
Prolific blogger. Pathetic YouTuber. Earl Grey enthusiast. Satisfactory lover.
There have been many questions lately about this man. Who is this Lewis Bostock? Where did he come from? What is his message?
The mystery surrounding Mr Bostock has spread faster than horny fangirls in Kerikeri. Ever since his rambunctious debut in Auckland at the New Zealand YouTube Gathering, Bostock has captured the imagination of tens of people who were present.
Bostock's exact history is unknown, but it is known that he is the forbidden spawn of a champagne induced union between a dancer and a candlestick maker from the lofts of Ye Olde England. After a run-in with the local restaurant owner over salad ingredients, the Bostock clan were banished to the prison realm of Australia. Due to the less than satisfactory navigation skills of Lewis though, the family sailed straight past Australia and landed in New Zealand.
Since this outrageous arrival, Lewis Bostock has grown into a man vocal in local politics. He adamantly promotes cultural equality with his fiance, Pansy Wong. He is also a supporter of his local 'Guns Don't Kill People, Ladders Do' Club chapter. In his spare time he likes to cultivate tea leaves and practice divination, and hopes to one day have three children named Earl, Grey and Pansy II.
Bostock has also created somewhat of a fashion revolution in the Albany area of Auckland. Style commentators are calling Bostock followers the 'Scarf Army' in reference to the uniform skinny scarf, as mandated by the Church of Bostock. Other trends include thick framed glasses and evening robes.
One certainty in the life of The Bostock is the presence of Earl Grey Tea. To say he is reliant on the substance would be a gross understatement. Followers have noted Bostock's incessant craving for the tea, and many believe this to be the source of his power. His brain power, that is.
And that is just it. Even with the little we know about his history and origin, his sheer vocabulatary (yes, he created that word) power and robe-wearing skills overshadow even my biographical writing talent.
All of these qualities are what make up this absent member of the New Zealand YouTube community. This pompous Earl Grey drinking, robe wearing, film review writing, proclamation making British import. This bespeckled knight of film making. This man of internet mystery.
This Lewis Bostock.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
A bit of history
Today I've been watching CNN as the US Election results have come in.
Barack Obama, who over a year ago was an unknown Senator with a Black father and a White mother, has been elected the next President of the United States.
I've felt like I have been witnessing a part of history. Today will live on forever as the start of a new chapter in not only American society, but through that country's influence on the rest of the world, on the culture of Earth. I hope that this change will redefine the image of the US around the world because as an American living abroad I have felt the bias and discrimination that is almost subconciously unleashed by citizens of the world. Thankfully this is entirely the fault of the Presidency of the past eight years, and now with the change that Americans around the world have called for, wounds will be mended.
I have seen pictures of children of slaves who have been given the oppertunity to vote an African-American into the highest office. Isn't that something?
What an overwhelming day! What a day to remember! What a day to be an American!
I am proud.
T
Barack Obama, who over a year ago was an unknown Senator with a Black father and a White mother, has been elected the next President of the United States.
I've felt like I have been witnessing a part of history. Today will live on forever as the start of a new chapter in not only American society, but through that country's influence on the rest of the world, on the culture of Earth. I hope that this change will redefine the image of the US around the world because as an American living abroad I have felt the bias and discrimination that is almost subconciously unleashed by citizens of the world. Thankfully this is entirely the fault of the Presidency of the past eight years, and now with the change that Americans around the world have called for, wounds will be mended.
I have seen pictures of children of slaves who have been given the oppertunity to vote an African-American into the highest office. Isn't that something?
What an overwhelming day! What a day to remember! What a day to be an American!
I am proud.
T
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
YouTube stuff.
I thought this was quite funny:
come on, at least try not to make it look like you're selling out!
*this isn't photoshopped
Oh, and isn't this a ridiculous amount of honours? They really don't mean anything these days:
PIMP RAP FOR PATRICK
meh
T
come on, at least try not to make it look like you're selling out!*this isn't photoshopped
Oh, and isn't this a ridiculous amount of honours? They really don't mean anything these days:
PIMP RAP FOR PATRICK
meh
T
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