December 2011
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ZERO: Where The Wild Pineapples Grow →
lowriannparry:
They call me the Pineapplehead, but my name was Chris Kirkpatrick. Why they call me this I do not know, for my name was Chris Kirkpatrick.
Justin: From the first day I saw him I knew he was the one. As he stared into my fly sunglasses and smiled. For his lips were the colour of pineapples. They…
The demon lovechild of Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Kylie Minogue...
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Famousness
I was mesmerised by the BBC documentary “I Had The X Factor… 25 Years Ago”. It looked at six people who were finalists in the 1986 grand final of the “New Faces” talent show - three singers, two comedians, and a violinist. They all enjoyed instant fame from the show, but with varying amounts of success. And that’s where it got interesting.
It seemed that most...
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The Top Ten Phrases That Made Me Long for Death in...
richardrushfield:
1.Toldja
2.Um, no
3. Not so much
4. Gosling
5. Adorkable
6. Adore
7. Hot Trailer
8. Just saying
9. Meme
10. Fail
The horrible thing is, I follow a person on Twitter who uses about 80% of these terms all the time. I would like a filter to block tweets using this stuff too much.
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Vanilla Ice's pants
Vanilla Ice is appearing in a pantomime in the UK this Christmas. He plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan. It sounds quite cool, yeah? So I was tweeting about this and I typed “Vanilla Ice’s panto looks like fun.” However autocorrect decided this was wrong and helpfully changed it to “Vanilla Ice’s pants looks like fun.” I came *this* close to tooting it.
But do...
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Things I believe to be worth reading: My open... →
gregbruce:
Dear Hays Recruiting - Experts in Construction,
I’m going to start at the bottom of your ad and work my way up. Just because, really.
I absolutely have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit and I’m excited about working with a recognised and respected contractor offering an excellent…
Looking for a job is a pretty awful process. I always feel like writing application letters...
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Watchrichardrushfield:
The end of tonight’s episode of X Factor was the most dramatic ten minutes of television I’ve ever seen. Nothing can compare to this. It was human conflict at its most desperate and hubristic, raw and retarded. Absolutely gripping unbelievable drama. If you are not watching this, get that smug look off your face and take in the noblest battle between gladiators of song our...
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Everyone who doesn’t have a job - it’s no big deal. Just say you’re freelance.
- E. Grimes.
Ok, then. I’m freelance.
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The blessing
I accidentally started following Justin Bieber on Twitter. [I feel I need to justify this - I followed him to see if he was a mutual follower of someone else I was semi-stalking, but I forgot to unfollow the Bieb.]
Anyway, this just turned up in my timeline:
@justinbieber the blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others. #blessed
I...
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Novelist Teddy Wayne recounts a three-month-long dialogue with a Facebook scammer.
Teddy Wayne: but enough about me. how are YOU?
Claire Anrie: 24 and you?
Teddy Wayne: 32. i have had the chronic diarrhea since i was 24, though, so we have something in common!
Claire Anrie: what we have in common is love
Teddy Wayne: yes. love, and your age being the age when i developed chronic diarrhea.
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Watch¡Hola Esteban! “Viva Morrissey” is a short documentary (11:30) about Morrissey’s intense Latino fanbase in Los Angeles. What is it about the pale Englishmen that appeals so much to the young men and women of LA? No one knows for sure, but these guys have the best clothes, hair and tattoos of any Moz fans.
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What happens when it's too hot at night
Guys, I had the craziest dream last night. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
Def Leppard were on a world tour, but their popularity had waned so they were only playing small church halls. On the Hamilton leg of their tour, I suddenly found myself in a Freaky Friday-type switch with the drummer. Only it wasn’t Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen, it was some Spanish guy who was drumming, but he also only...
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Anonymous asked: How do you expect to get a job if you don't have contact details on any of your websites?
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netscapenavigators:
MIDI MONDAY: Third Eye Blind...
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I want it that way
@johubris alerted me to an article on The Gawker, where Adrian Chen tags along to a Belieber buyout of “Under the Mistletoe”, in an article with the brilliant title The Unstoppable Rampage of the Beliebers.
These girls were motivated out of pure love of Justin, and wanting to do good. But I bet on some level they understood the mechanisms of attention that underpin Bieber fandom—an...
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Le quake
So, there was that earthquake thing last night. I was watching the One Direction documentary when suddenly I felt the familiar sway of my building when an earthquake hits. But unlike the usual baby mini quakes that usually hit Wellington, this one went on for longer and got more shaky. Some books and objet d’art started falling off the top two shelves of my bookcase, which has never happened...
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I used to read Fortune magazine when I was a teen. What was up with that? I had no desire to be a business leader type person, but some of the articles were quite good.
Though I also read Tatler and The Face, so I suppose it balances out.
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Freaky
As a child, one of my favourite films was the body-swap classic “Freaky Friday”, starring Jodie Foster. I also had the original book by Mary Rodgers. I’ve read it so much that pages are falling out and I have entire passages memorised. But suddenly today I remembered one scenario.
13-year-old Annabel, in the body of her mother, is seeing off her father/husband in the morning....
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You are offered free tickets to your choice of one of four shows. Which do you pick:
Tim Finn and Friends Dave Dobbyn and Friends Jordan Luck and Friends The Guy from the Feelers and Friends
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“And…my video is now leaking like an old tampon.”
– Lady Gaga, Facebook
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Website ABCs
Inspired by sakura59, this is what my web browser comes up with for each letter of the alphabet, aka what I have been doing with my time over the past few months since I’ve been unemployed:
A. airnz.co.nz - Usually daydreaming.
B. bigbrotheruk-s1.channel5.com - Part of the UK Big Brother Facebook page, which is weird because it ended about a month ago.
C. channel5.com/bigbrother -...