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In honour of this weekend's quarter final, and because I'll probably be telling Americans the ripped nutsack story several times ove the course of Big Bad Con, a tribute to a NZ icon and rugby hero, Wayne "Buck" Shelford:

Shelford made his Test debut for the All Blacks later that year against France in a 19-7 victory in Toulouse, and then was a ( Read more... )

At the recommendation of mcellis, I had a Strawberry Rhubbarb pie from Du-Par's at the Farmer's Market yesterday*. It was delicious. I also picked up some meat at one of the butchers and cooked a pork steak with apple sauce for dinner ( Read more... )

I had been planning to spend tonight watching the Infernal Affairs trilogy to celebrate the Year of the Metal Rabbit, but that fell through. As it turns out, this is looking to be a big sporting weekend. I was pointed at a live feed of the Wellington Sevens, so I'm watching that this evening, as well as keeping an eye on the Cricinfo commentary of ( Read more... )

Another collection of links in an attempt to make a dent in my backlog of browser tabs:

On the New York Times website, Mark Greif has written a Bourdieuian analysis of hipster culture and why the term is used as ab insult: The Hipster in the Mirror (subscription required ( Read more... )

Rugbyzone wasn't showing them and I was too busy to get up to the Valley to watch the games live at the English pub there, so I missed the entire end of year All Blacks tour. I caught up on the NPC finals, but didn't really think about rugby until the recent end of the NFL regular & fantasy seasons heralded the stirrings of Super Rugby ( Read more... )

I've been sitting on this one for a while. Nothing much else to say really, is there!

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Fruen! Crotty! Slade! Shut the gate Canterbury!

(That no-try at 1:00 looked a bit dodgy, but the highlights don't show a close enough view to be sure)

I haven't watched any of the ABs games. I missed England because I was in Vegas, and I didn't want to get ( Read more... )

A dramatic win for Waikato sets us up against the new rival rather than the old rival.

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Houston's insistence of passing against the on-fire Indy pass rush and secondary gives one of my fantasy teams its first loss of the season (7-1, the other is 8-0).

I'm going to Vegas tonight. I 'm planning on spending most of my time in the Games on Demand ( Read more... )

This weekend was a bit of a personal rugby fail on my part, and a bit of a personnel rugby fail on the part of the All Black selectors.

I completely forgot to stay up and listen to the Canterbury game on Thursday night, fortunately Rugbydump supplied a good highlights package:

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Then on Friday night, I set my alarm to get up at 1.30 to listen to ( Read more... )

NZ Coach: We played like dicks really"The series against Bangladesh really was dire, so I'm not surprised the coach has some harsh words for the Black Caps ( Read more... )