From the Hood : Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems by Lyndon Hood ● So now it turns out (who knew?) you can get into trouble for making indirect threats on the Internet. Not that I want to turn these...
View ArticleFrom the Hood : Looking beyond the veil into news beyond our own
Looking beyond the veil into news beyond our own by Lyndon Hood From time to time, Scoop gets email from alternate universes. I don’t mean the press releases written by individuals who, while...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Relax, everything’s fine!
We’ll put the world to rights By Lyndon Hood It had been hectic lately. First the Phil Goff saga: a halfhearted apology for his racially-charged and inflammatory statements, calls for him to resign,...
View ArticleFrom The Hood: Think Crimes
Lyndon Hood installs a crime-prevention camera in the Justice Minister’s mind. Click to enlarge Pity Simon Power. On his sofa watching The Shawshank Redemption, crying into his ice cream while Judith...
View ArticleFrom the Hood: Logo-rhythms
Super Logos for a Super City by Lyndon Hood Rather than paying for a real logo, the Auckland Transition Agency has decided to run a public competition, complete with an open brief and a panel of...
View ArticleFrom the Hood: Boraxing poetical
Odes for the malodorous by Lyndon Hood DATING CARBON “How many dates in a scone?” – Gerry Brownlee on estimates of untapped mineral wealth. The debate on this matter is rather intense (Among those who...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Faster Liberals, Kill! Kill!
Suddenly the Government’s strategy makes sense By Lyndon Hood INCOMING MESSAGE: MEMORANDUM FROM: GRAND RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY GHQ TO: POLITICAL 1, NEW ZEALAND, SECTOR NJ18934 EARTH SUBJECT: ONGOING...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Some more of me polemics
The author is reincarnated into the body of a free verse poet By Lyndon Hood Archey’s Frog (no relation) has also been in the news. *** “What will this package do? Let us think about the young couple...
View ArticleFrom the Hood: Striking Comedy Gold
Government To Mine Rich Vein Of Irony by Lyndon Hood Wellington, 28 July – Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee has announced the discovery “significant” quantities of irony underlying the Parliament area of...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Absolutist Simon Power Corrupts Absolutely
Simon is so powerful nobody’s allowed to argue with him By Lyndon Hood I, Simon James Power, hearby swear before God and Man that I shall never shave until I have reformed every aspect of the New...
View ArticleFrom The Hood :Auto Erotic
Steven Joyce meets Elvis at the bottom of a glass Satire by Lyndon Hood Yes sir, you sure do meet some strange types in the wedding chapel line. What I like most about the business – all the folks you...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Looney Toons In Hobbiton
The unionth are dethpicable! By Lyndon Hood [The two delegates from Warner Brothers enter the Prime Minister's office.] KEY: Welcome to New Zealand, gentlemen, pleased to meet you. Might have done...
View ArticleFrom the Hood : Lost in Wiseacre Wood
Isn’t it funny / How a bear likes cutting the public service? / Buzz buzz buzz, / I wonder why he does. by Lyndon Hood One day the Bear and his friend, the Small Pig, were strolling through the wood,...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Mustn’t Grumble
Lyndon Hood looks back at 2010 and feels reasonably satisfied By Lyndon Hood Click for big version Merry Christmas from Lyndon Hood’s Desktop January Tax working groups suggests moving the nation away...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : “John Key PM” Wins 2011 Walters Prize For Modern Art?
Is he a natural clown or the nation’s greatest conceptual artist? By Lyndon Hood “Untitled Employment Policy #7″, John Key, 2008-2011 (collection of the artist) In a move that has already provoked...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : You Have Been Mooned
The Lunacy of Earthquake Satire by Lyndon Hood New Zealand: You have been Mooned, Am I the only one with this frame of mind? The one that treats a statement like “there’s nothing funny about the...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Learning To Read The PM
Politics is child’s play by Lyndon Hood Without apologies to Craig Smith, Katz Cowley and all the people who got here first. Earlier in the year, when asked what he really thought about something,...
View ArticleFrom The Hood : Goff Disappointed As World Fails To End
Rapture no-show deals serious blow to Labour’s election plans By Lyndon Hood Close friends say they are worried for Labour Leader Phil Goff, who is increasingly disappointed that predictions the world...
View ArticleFrom the Hood : The Antipodean Nights’ Entertainments
Like 1001 nights in the Caliphate of Key… by Lyndon Hood Once there was a mighty Prince who was extremely mindful of his own mortality. He decided to ensure his legacy by having a child. Yet, having...
View ArticleFrom the Hood: Sestina SIStina Barcelona
The art of spying, dying and versifying by Lyndon Hood Sometimes I think, if I should chance to be crushed by a falling lump of masonry my motives may be viewed suspiciously due to, upon me, the...
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