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Amanda Riddell
Apr 6, 20232 min read
Question Time 5.4.23
Yay for cannabis questions! Boo to Labour for dodging the questions… Tinetti had a lot of questions to answer today. Gary said he started...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 5, 20232 min read
random thought
As I write this while scheming about my movie night, yeah I have a lot of female friends, most of which are mostly platonic. Though yeah,...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 5, 20233 min read
Letter to CS
I guess your plan is to ditch politics and make movies with me. Which yeah, with the team Chloe infrastructure plus my weird avant-garde...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 5, 20232 min read
For Sir Peter
Yeah, I'm not keen on the Tina thing. I still think those development techniques with the roto will be useful for Shipwrecked. Ultimately...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 4, 20233 min read
Question Time 4.04.23
Question Time: total snoozer .. was yawning my way through. I still feel the same as I did last week - what's the point?? 🤔 Is it my...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 3, 20231 min read
brain droppings 3.4.23
Running the Dakumentary again - I had to stop halfway through .. too much RP in my head. It's been 9+ hours already today, but it was...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 1, 20232 min read
I'm not Tina
I never was. I'm far harder than she is; I mean, I actually joined a gang. Though again, it's not actually a gang - activist crime groups...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 1, 20231 min read
No to VUW.
No, I'm not doing an MA. Seriously back off VUW, and accept I've become a powerful enemy. That's what happened as a result of not feeling...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 1, 20232 min read
About Burnside
Ok, I get the sense people are way more interested in that than my uni experiences. First up: no, it wasn't like Glee or Fame. Uni was...
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Amanda Riddell
Apr 1, 20232 min read
language policing
key point: people still use 'autistic' the way we used to use 'gay' when I was in school, and that's stigmatising all neurodiverse people....
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 30, 20231 min read
South Park
I was just lecturing about the show, then I watched the new episode (s26 e6), which happened to be quite good. - I stopped watching the...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 30, 20231 min read
vaffanculo
explainer: it's an Italian word - basically equivalent to 'go fuck yourself', though it's a bit more specific (loose translation: go fuck...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 29, 20231 min read
Question Time 29.3.23
Luxon was good today. The tenaciousness with the Nash questions made him look like an Opposition Leader challenging the Govt. over...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 29, 20232 min read
To the thought leaders
I feel genuinely let down by the city of Wellington. Until I took to FB in 2022, the narrative wasn't pro-weed. Despite the high yes...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 29, 20232 min read
responsibilities of criticism
I may be an unconventional journalist, but I still have ethics and beliefs. When it comes to social criticism, I don't think it's...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 28, 20231 min read
my childhood hero
My childhood hero was Dan Vettori, which pissed off my Dad, who thought he seemed like a dick. I liked the idea that spin bowlers use...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 28, 20231 min read
To Golriz
Hi - yeah, I get the sense you'd find my stuff appealing. As for the Proceeds of Crime stuff: I dug the line about the truancy crisis. -...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Question Time 28.3.23
This is going to be a different format to my usual reviews: it's more of a diatribe, really. After watching Marama being raked over the...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 28, 20232 min read
To the art music aficionados - a kvetch.
I don't want to make nice with the NZSO. I'd rather put them to the sword in an interview. I mean, even if I ticked them off now, 10...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 27, 20231 min read
brain droppings 27.3.23
I wonder how much of the cannabis cause is funded by Americans? Those lobbying articles have got me thinking... I mean, Gary is...
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