In the future all intergalactic battles will be fought between the Microsoft Fleet and the Apple Fleet. The Microsoft Fleet will be cheaper, more upgradeable, and freeze randomly during fire fights. The Apple Fleet will be vicious, more zealot, and will be weak every three weeks when their supreme overlord releases a new signal with the latest Mac Os 3933083.00003apple.

Why no, I'm not watching Blakes7.

Oh my god it’s true, I live in a country of sheep fanciers.

Kiwis are looking for rugby, sheep and porn when they go online, although not necessarily in that order, says web search giant Google.

Now honestly, I want to know, what the fuck is there to know about sheep?

Rugby I can understand. I’m sure there’s plenty of things you need to look up about the … um, scrums? Points things. Whatever. But sheep? What the hell do you need to know about sheep, and in such great numbers as to be the most popular search.

Another wtf moment: Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki's presence next to the Maori Queen stirs interest.

I can’t remember the last time anyone actually talked about the Maori queen. Probably because she has no crown jewels.

Like, yay, Brian Tamaki? This wanker claims that the Bible says that people have to give 20% of their earnings to the church. Yes, I’m sure it does, right after the verse where Jesus says “and marriage is the cornerstone of our society”. Or maybe that’s “no marriage in heaven.” Whatever. He called our transgender MP an “abomination” and then had to argue with her about civil unions. He also gets his numbers from the school of “I can make anything up”. 90% of people don’t want civil unions! That official poll? Lies.



In other news it is apparently possible to get a room full of liberals (my entire American politics tutorial) and then have half of them argue badly against the capitalist system and to stop welfare. A good quarter of which also take Modern Political Thought with me. And my side (I got to be a Republican) basically just made up elaborate stories like “Hi, my name’s Tequila and my mum’s a whore but I still benefited from the system.” (This has no similarity to the Daily Show segment where Stephen declared himself son of a turd miner what so ever. Really. I swear. Hehe.)

I should really stop reading Rodney Hide's blog and finish my essay. But it's so damm funny.

Dancing practice
Monday, May 01, 2006

It’s down to the last week of practice before the first show. Our first dance is the waltz. Our second the rumba.

It’s been an amazing experience. Poor Krystal. She is one of New Zealand’s top dancers. She has only ever danced with partners who can dance. And then she gets me. Can’t dance. Never danced. Doesn’t know one step. Can’t even hear the beat in the music. “How do you mean 1-2-3-1-2-3? Where’s that coming from?”

New Zealand’s best dancer with New Zealand’s worst. Oh and you have six weeks before you dance live on TV. Oh and the constituents of Epsom come first. And then there’s Parliament.

What an experience. It’s been tough. It’s been fun. I have had the time of my life.

And it’s now coming up for Show Time. We leave tomorrow for Wellington. It’s Parliament this week. And the weekend will be taken up with rehearsals out at Avalon for Dancing with the Stars. We perform live 7:30pm this Sudnay TV One.

All spelling beautifully preserved. And check out their slogan image. Am I the only one who reads that as "for the little gay?"

Doing essay. I swear.

So… I’m thinking about hosting another Pretender ficathon.

Last year’s one turned out really well and a lot of great new stories came out of it. If you're on my flist you can see what happened here, and if you're not then you can see a mostly accurate thingy here. However, I’m not sure which type people are interested in, or if you’re interested at all.

Here’s a poll. Because polls are fun.

Poll #527502 Pretender Ficathon
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Would you be interested in participating?

If yes then what type would you most be interested in?

Ticky?

Last part. Thanks muchly to KB for the great beta! ^^

Warning: 90% of this is a recap of tP:2001. If you're not interested feel free to skip.

It's finally finished. Broken into three (un-friends locked because it will take me a while to code this up for my site) posts.

I really must apologize to those who have me on their friends lists, I've been spamming you with this for a month. You must be bloody sick of me. I promise this is the last until I try to convince all shippers to write slash and all slashers to write Zoe.

( The Final list. Who wrote what for whom. )

Thank you so much to all of those who participated, we've got some really great stories out of this. Its been a lot of fun.

In the upcoming weeks the stories will be loaded up on pretender fanfiction.net under the fun features section. You will not need a pen name on the site for this, but if you do we'll see that your story links to your pffn profile.