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But, you know, what is good for Peter Jackson is good for Wellington. I guess.

I'm making a "pork chop and cherry pepper" dish for dinner tonight. Or, maybe, a "pork chop and vinegar pepper" recipe.

Anyway, the "true crime" documentary that had a guy saying "I just popped out for the ingredients, I'm just the cook!"

It takes hours to cook. So, "just popped out." Hmm.

In reality Huntley and Palmer fell out and refused to speak to each other. The badinage you saw at biscuit nights (Big Biscuit; The Biscuit Kings; Feel the Biscuit, Feel the Burn; A Question of Biscology; Welcome to the Biscotheque; Down With The Biscuit Kids; Call Me Biscuit;

In my removed opinion, the conversation in the US (and, yes, other nations) should be about actual legislative control - broken away from each individual police department and their unions - of the police.

Oh, and consider a bit of centralisation. Micro-forces with license to kill make no sense.

That last picture, of Loki. That's a real "awww, mumma, they're not playing nice!"

When the spare is no longer an heir then trouble appears.

I'm pretty sure that's always been a rule for hereditary rulership. (And, constitutional monarchies.)

As much as I absolutely love - and keep re-watching - American New Wave movies; I've never really had a soft spot for Apocalypse Now.

Despite owning at least three DVDs of it!

Because private management of public infrastructure has worked so well this far, eh Wellington?

Bishop is saying the public will be "quite shocked" how badly public assets have been mismanaged.

He's going to announce a massive sell-off, isn't he?

Come on, Hipkins, get ahead of Bishop's press conference and announce a future Labour government will absolutely not sell off public assets.

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop said estimates he had seen had the total bill for New Zealand's Infrastructure deficit at "anywhere between $100 and $200 billion".

So, obviously, the solution is to simply not do anything.

These people. I swear.

And, there we go. Robert Duvall, one of the absolute greats of the American New Wave cinema.

From To Kill A Mockingbird, through The Godfathers, The Conversation, onto films like Falling Down and Crazy Heart.

Always one of the most mesmerising presences on screen. RIP.

Well. So the wind has died away, the rain seems to have stopped.
...
And a landslide evacuation warning has just been issued for some houses down the road.

Lovely stuff.

"You never build too high in January Rain."

Oh. It's February?

It's certainly a more welcome return than Trump's!

They're probably being stunned into silence by their pay-cheques.

You know, TVNZ, I don't think "Rachel McKenna is back on Shortland Street" is really worth a breaking news push alert.

Oh. And am earthquake?

I genuinely did not notice.

So, then, there is this:

But, on the bright side, apart from a few surges overnight, we still have electricity in this windswept suburb.

Riverside Drive? Flooded? Again?

I mean, it's right there in the name...

Anyway, I'm going to put on "The Hazards of Love" and once that album by The Decemberists is done maybe the weather won't be quite so shit.

Not holding my breath, though. Despite that being the recommended solution to the literal shit-storm blowing up from Ōwhiro Bay.

Whether it was revenge or pettiness the way the Nats came in and ruined Wellington should never be forgiven. Hope they never win a single seat here. Killed all the jobs and put shit in the air. And Labour in local govt catering to their ideas is despicable. Whole city is gonna be stuck for years.

"Action-orientated."

Yep. One of the bestest days.

...it really hasn't. Wild af.

Yeah, FEMA was here. A bit of roofing lifted, but, nowhere as much as our neighbours.

It's been a bit hairy.

This recent WILTY episode with Hannah Cockroft and Jason Isaacs is... brilliantly funny.

It's a format that may be slowing down a bit, but, then, they get guests like these.

Unfortunately, he's too smart for that.

Fortunately, he knows when the best option is to just snuggle in alongside Sarah.

It's a bit like that, eh. Keep safe.

I agree. I thought it would calm down a bit with dawn. It really hasn't.