Posts by Joanna
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By which I mean that the new issue of Metro's inclusion of dogging as something that's not done in Auckland but is done in Wellington totally came straight from the work of the Istas.
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Joanna, for shame! Girls don't read porn!
That's true. But I know some girls who write it quite well...
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@ Craig I didn't really look very hard to be honest, I just wanted her in the jumpsuit.
@ Emma On some very bored day, I read a whole lot of non-cannon fan fiction that featured both twacks AND squeak squeaks.
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And also, when are they going to start putting the wimmin's Public Address First XV on the telly? Russell?
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I learnt everything I know about American history (which is a surprising amount, actually) from reading Sunfire Romances. Each had a girl's name, and was set at a particular moment in history - Megan was about the Alaska Purchase in 1867, and Veronica was at Pearl Harbour for example, and in each book the 15 year old protagonist would have to choose between a wealthy and stable suitor or the wild, crazy free spirited guy. SPOILER ALERT: she almost always goes for the wild & crazy.
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@ Jack Elder - aaaaah, you're THAT Jack Elder. You and your sister were always really nice to me in the absence of my own older siblings, so cheers for that!
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91-92, used to go to the monthly Friday night drinks reasonably often.
"the good old days" (yes, i'm a certified codger)I would have been the 11 year old at the reception desk selling you drink tickets for cans of Rheineck or Waikato Draft then, Ah internets, how small you make the world!
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@stephen walker
If your friends had kids at the embassy 91-95 I babysat them, if they didn't. then I sold them drink tickets and topped up their glasses at parties and they could have witnessed my girl/woman status struggles
In crowds such a Yoyogi Koen, I would dismount and ride. Yamate Dori I mostly traveled in a school bus, initially only months after their "American" part of "School in Japan" was covered up due to the fear of terrorism in retaliation after the first Gulf War and Americans had been instructed to say that they were Canadians.
Incidentally I was in Hamilton in 1999 when a bus went past me, and it was an ASIJ bus, all still marked out in all its livery and painting. Gave me the hell of a fright, I tell you. Seriously, if any of you ever sell a vehicle second-hand, please remove any of its defining markings in order to avoid causing traumatic flashbacks for people please. Thank you!
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@ stephen walker and others
Because I grew up in the Ngaio hills of Wellington, I didn't learn to ride a bike until I moved to Tokyo at age 10, and then we rode our bikes everywhere. When my parents got me a 21 speed for my 13th birthday, they insisted that I get a front basket, no matter how uncool I thought it was, because we did all our daily shopping via bike. We mostly rode on the footpath, but from the embassy to Shibuya main was down sweet expensive suburban hills, so I could free-wheel in the middle of the road. The only time I ever worried about my safety on a bike was watching my mother who never braked on cross-roads,
Um anyways, what was my point? Oh yes, we never wore helmets and we rode on the footpaths and those are the reasons that I'd be too scared to ride my bike in Wellington, unless there was a totally dedicated bike lane all the way from my house to work.