The Mad Hatter is Pretty In Pink

Photo from Herald.co.nz A story from the stag do....not that we normally talk about stag do's!

We ran into an English dude in a pink hat at the Twisted Hop bar late in the evening who had been to the rugby with his mate. He was really wanting to lose his pink hat and get a free Tui hat from the cheerleaders.

The funniest thing is that there was a blind dude sitting in front of him, and the Tui Cheerleaders decided he was more worthy of a free Tui Hat than the Pom in Pink.

The ironic thing here folks...is what the heck was a blind man paying to go and watch the rugby for? Is it just me? Or am I being to anti PC by questioning a blind man at the footy?

Who knows...I invite comment?

The Ultimate Nectar

Embarrasment

I went to a meeting today with the Government Bigwigs. It was highly productive and we sorted out a lot of fine tuning that was holding up the negotiations. All in all it was a great success.

Half an hour later back at the office I noticed my fly was undone. CRAP!!!!!!!

Is This The Hottest Woman In Music?

Meg White? I think so!

I defy you to prove otherwise.....

Atiu

As Rarotonga looms I have discovered an island that holds secret male beer drinking ceremonies.

I'm off there!

There may or may not be a report on this in September, if I come home.

Domestic Rugby

Yes folks, theres more to footy than the World Cup for the rest of the year. The "NPC" gets up and running this week.

The NZ Herald reported today that the Otago Squad has been having training sessions to the point of physical exhaustion up on mountainside 1500m above sea level. Its been -20 degrees down there last week in some parts of Central Otago.

By comparison the Auckland team have been on a pre season 'bonding' trip to Thailand.

It will be interesting to see which of those two teams goes better!

The Canterbury boys have been staring at an empty trophy cabinet for the first time in history for their training....soon to be sorted out.

Anyway, as usual I'm doing the Virtual Rugby thing, so if you sign up there look for 'Razor Sharpe to watch'

Haymans Beard

Well some of you may remember Bearduary....it looks like theres going to be a repeat performance that will run nicely into Movember 2007. Throw away your Razors everyone!

Apparently since he shaved it off the AB's lost their mojo, so what more reason to grow some face fluff. I was thinking the after the Wedding might be a good place to start with a week off in Rarotonga...unless of course I get a reason not to!

Full details at Stuff.co.nz here

Check this out... the official Haymans Beard blog is here.

These guys deserve a serious shout out. I'll have it linked on my favourates- I urge you to subscribe, if only to see the George Gregan arrest!

Where Was The Project Manager?

This is a classic that arrived in my email box this week...

The photo below was taken in Swansea, UK, from an office just opposite the site where council workmen were cleaning up after making an excellent job of erecting and cementing in traffic bollards.

This was to prevent cars parking on the large open area in front of the grey building on the right.

Take a closer look??!!!

The New Job

Well, believe it or not its almost a month into it. The job is everything I expected and more, its really quite a politically charged time to be working on Tenure Review but thats just another thing that makes the job fun.

Already I'm working on places dear to my tramping and mountain biking heart. Really the job is a combination of all the different careers paths I've taken merged into one very interesting role. Still very much in the induction phase, but we're getting quite a bit achieved already.

Now all I need to do is find a new home!

Yeouwch!!!

This is just naaaaaaasty

Rugby league prop Ben Czislowski ran around for 15 weeks without knowing an opponent's tooth was buried in his forehead.

Full story click here....

Kiddies

Today I became a godfather.

And a couple of weeks ago I became a brother again.

It's all very very cool!

Wellington To Be Dismantled And Shut Down

I guess this means the end for Windy Wellington! (Clickety)

The Luckiest Day Of Our Lives

In this crazy rollercoaster of a year, where the vast majority of my friends are either going through break ups, getting married or having kids this grabbed my attention....

Saturday just past was the 7th of the 7th of 07.

Among superstition circles the number 7 is the luckiest of all numbers, which makes last Saturday quite a special day. Apparently hordes of people were heading to the alter, having babies and playing Save The World concerts on this day, just because its such a lucky day.

And dammit, I forgot to buy a lotto ticket.

Heres an article link to analyse 7/7/07 further, for those of you too lazy to google it!

From the New York Times, click here

And no, I'm not reporting my luck stakes from that fateful day here. To be honest the 6th of June 2006 was probably more fun....

The State of the World

In order to celebrate this weekends Live Earth concerts....

Match Point to Mr Gore.

Razor Review- G n' F n' R

What a night. Arrived via a Kenny Rogers playing cab driver, which was rather surreal. Into the gig and straight into Angry Anderson and his brothers Rose Tattoo- solid sounding set for the oldies in the crowd (which I almost am now!). Nice Boys Don't Play Rock N Roll!!!

Then came treat number one- Sebastian "Mr Hard Rock Charisma" Bach played a full set of primarily Skid Row songs and if you knew them it was great. If not then it might have been a battle. Sebastian gets 7 out of 10- keep that energy pal! Probably the highlight was the crowd pleasing "I Remember You" which proved to all that his voice still has it and was never faked.

About midnight the first riffs of Welcome To The Jungle started bouncing around the dry ice and it was all on. I had my doubts until recently as to whether Axl Rose could still carry it off, but anyone who saw any of the gigs last week in Auckland and Christchurch will tell you, well, Rose is still a rock and roll legend in his prime.

I won't bore you all with blow by blow detail, suffice to say it was a two hour set of crowd pleasing greatest hits, along with three new songs- Madagascar being the outstanding one there. And the band- outstanding. It may not be Slash, Duff et all but this mob are as cohesive and together as any incarnation of G N R that theres ever been. Robin Finke of Nine Inch Nails fame is virtuoso, Richard Fortus of Psychadelic Furs fame is a treat- and my personal highlight of the night was Ron Thal's outstanding rendition of the NZ National Anthem that morphed into an instrumental version of "Don't Cry" on the "Flyin V" guitar- it was like Jimi Hendrix was in the room.

Best tracks- Welcome to the Jungle, the epic firework driven November Rain, Madagascar and Paradise City to close. And many, many more.

The Razor Review gives this 9 out of 10 and says its the best gig I've seen in 2007. Not quite into the Top 5 of all time, the 1988 version of G N R just cuts this one off at the pass, mainly due to it being my first ever gig!

Wasted Youth

In December 1988 I went to see these guys in the Jaffabowl....my first ever live concert. Its still one of my top 5 gigs ever.

In 1993 I saw them again, with Sebastian Bach's Skid Row in support. That night G N R were too drugged out to make the top 5 gigs list.

Tonight I'm off to see Axl's modern version of G N R here in ChCh, who from all accounts played great gigs in Auckland over the weekend. And funnily enough Sebastian Bach is in support. Ironically the last live act I saw in ChCh was Velvet Revolver 2 years ago....where the rest of the 'old G N R' currently play. Today Velvet Revolver released their new CD, and there are posters of both G N R and VR all over town. I wonder if Axl noticed the irony as he flew into the Garden City.

Its time for one huuuuuuge fucking party!!!!!!!!!!!

Razor Review to follow when the hangover eases........sometime next week probably!

All Blacks have a chink or two in the armour...

Aussies just beat the All Blacks. Most unexpectedly!

Ouch, that one hurt. Down trou. Oh well if nothing else this blatantly stolen Jockey/ Google Image (c) will get the female viewership of my blog up...

Well played Australia, that was a gutsy upset win, and for the second week in a row Ritchies boys failed to do the fundamentals- like catch the rugby ball- when it matters.

Can you coach grown men how to catch?

Having said that, I'm not at all upset about the boys losing that one, they were mucking around with a couple of blokes out of position and they got the answer that they didn't work (ie McAlister has to play at 2nd 5 not center...now I'm a big Aaron Mauger fan but I think he played himself out of the 12 jersey tonight.

And Dan Carter- what a monumentally crap season that bloke is having...if his name was Carlos I'm pretty sure they would have sacked him by now.

BUT .... form is temporary, class is permanent. The World Cup will still be ours....one day.

Go the Black Boat!!!!!!