Viva La Revolución

Posted: September 1st, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Tis a glorious day in the Peoples’ Republic of New Zealand when our most trustworthy and benevolent National Government nationalise—by semi-violent means—and return to the workers of Aotearoa vast tracts of arable land, productive dairy cows from which a new generation of proletarian babies will suckle and grow strong and massive piles of toxic debt are wiped from the ledger books of running-dog capitalist pigs and tools of the military industrial complex thus freeing the worker from the chains of economic serfdom.

I for one welcome our new socialist overlords.


An open letter to John Key

Posted: August 3rd, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

Dear John Key,

I take umbrage at your comments about Chris Carter’s mental health as reported by stuff.co.nz today.

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Files, Flies and Fawkes

Posted: May 19th, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

Like Nicky Hager before me, I have magically obtained an email that helps explain Monday’s bomb threat in the Beehive.

Unfortunately, this fliesian Fawkes formulation was foiled, with the Beehive being evacuated and no maggots laid.

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Key’s Key Convictions

Posted: May 15th, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

This week’s Sunday Star Times posed 50 questions to Prime Minister Key from famous New Zealanders.
Unfortunately, his entire press team were away when he first got the request from the SST. AbsoulteGenius was lucky enough to have been leaked his original answers.

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McCully’s Kobayashi Maru

Posted: January 9th, 2010 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Comments Off

Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique?
Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.

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The Vintner’s Luck—review

Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | Comments Off

I have always prided myself on being economic with words. Vintner’s Luck can be summed up thusly: “Wine. Fallen angel. Breast cancer. Fungicide. Keisha’s tits.”
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Spot the Difference

Posted: September 22nd, 2009 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | 1 Comment »

An avid reader of AbsoluteGenius pointed out this remarkable resemblance to me earlier.
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Dispiriting Dispatch Derth

Posted: September 1st, 2009 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | 1 Comment »

There is no interesting news in New Zealand. There is nothing that excites me. No news writers that make me feel passionate about news.
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Plebiscite Picture Panorama

Posted: August 31st, 2009 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | 1 Comment »

In the run-up to last month’s indicative, non-binding referendum, Daniel and I presented a third option to the box-tickers of NZ: defacing the ballot before sending it back to the electoral commission.
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Banal Blogging Block

Posted: August 31st, 2009 | Author: Jackson James Wood | Filed under: Jackson James Wood | 3 Comments »

I know I haven’t been the most regular of writers. I don’t stick to my diet of blogging branflakes like many other bloggers—shitting out gems of blog genius every other hour. To prove just how useless I am at blogging, here is a blog I started about three years ago before I went to China on the VUW politics field trip.
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