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To Steve Barr
Look, again, you are welcome to play fan fiction writer and wish that I would include Dakumentary or Shipwrecked or Perfumed Garden...
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Amanda Riddell
Jul 34 min read
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Random thought
Consciousness isn't just the illusion of infinite recursion; it's an illusion of infinite shared recursions. It takes both self-reference...
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Amanda Riddell
Jul 21 min read
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The PM is very unlikely to have seen my balls
Believe me, there must have been like 20 other people who could've seen them, and the vibe that I get around Parliament is that they like...
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Amanda Riddell
Jul 21 min read
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To John Allen
More emails came from VUW's mailing lists today. It's you and the ACT Party that are currently ruining my morning... It's a kick in the...
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Amanda Riddell
Jul 13 min read
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Demos
For those who aren't showbiz people: demo is short for demonstration (seems obvious). What that means is that, in musicals, we literally...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 301 min read
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Be realistic, Steve
You're just a stand-in for most of the professional entertainment industry in this rant. If I was so keen to avoid being Tina that I was...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 301 min read
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Utu for VUW
It's really simple: forgive my debt. All of it. Publicly apologise for mistreating me. The money's not so important, but it's a gesture...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 281 min read
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Trick rhymes
That's the term for a lot of the rhymes in the Shipwrecked on Islands title song. Aro Valley/Alleyways. planet/fan-at-tention. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 281 min read
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Triggers
People have been asking after my accidental drug overdose. A strange one is the chalkboard gags in The Simpsons. Regardless of what's...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 271 min read
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Why Indonesia?
In the AMPP policy document ... well, it's a massive country that's even closer than China. We don't trade much with them now, but if we...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 271 min read
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My Simpsons episode idea
It's probably been done by now, but the idea goes that Mrs. Krabappel is sick and a new substitute teacher finds out that Bart has a...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 271 min read
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To the Natzees and the Avocado Nazis
Using a forensic psychiatrist as a method of persuasion is genuinely illegal. You can't complain to the FTAC when I'm simply writing my...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 261 min read
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Marama
If there was one politician that saw the AMPP pirate show, it was her, so it's awesome that she dug it and the Dak film. Never talked to...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 241 min read
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Question Time 24 June 2025
Line of sight with one of the villains today: the Pink Skull (David Seymour). He wasn't pleased to see me. Did that chin 'piss off'...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 244 min read
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Be respectful, privileged dorks
You may have loved New York, but I didn't go. Don't really care what they think, and the last thing I want is for The Perfumed Garden to...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 241 min read
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Why wouldn't I censor the Internet?
I'd say that the Christchurch Call is useful for social media platforms, but since then we've seen an explosion of right-wing social...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 231 min read
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Suspension of disbelief
Until the recent age of identity-based themes, it was part of the bargain of plays or films that they might present views that the...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 211 min read
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To VUW hipsters
No, I'm not joining you. I hate academia and think your lives aren't better than mine. I don't need a PhD to be a great composer, and it...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 201 min read
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To New York
They have no legal right to my voice, to my songs or to my script. Dave's the person I'm writing with, not Red Scare. - James and Cass,...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 201 min read
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Quit it, and end the boycott! (no)
I don't want to play guitar in public at the moment and this won't change until apologies occur. Ultimately, this is how it all shook...
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 191 min read
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