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Musicals thought
Listening to the Evening Primrose/Frogs album. The singing isn't as strong as it is in the 1960's movie, even though neither Charmian...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Measured my dick
It wasn't a totally scientific measurement, given I was using a digital ruler, but I was right in the video when I said it's about 5...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Avocados
Well, I think that my choice to use the avocado as a representation of the Greens is a signal that I think they're privileged and...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Punching down
To the Greens: you do realise that the leaders and other MPs tithe more to the party than I make in a year, right? Like, I couldn't find...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Still incensed
I'll probably buy some weed later today, but this is why everyone wants me stoned 24/7. My mind's simply too sharp and too angry...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
To Stu
Stop being a lackey for the Tory-VUW view. The boycotts might be affecting my mental health, but I'm not giving them up until I get an...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 20241 min read
An uncomfortable truth for Wellington
The greenie core called me a racist, a sexist, a bigot, a fake trannie, a paedophile and many other things. They have to face that, and...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 20, 20242 min read
To the 'professional' art world
Salina, there's no 'some owen' 'some man' 'be a girl on stage' answer. That attitude is why the NZSM lost. Jane too. I'm serious: Owen...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Nicola Willis
I barely know her, but I'm very sure she's why I'm still at Question Time. Luxon clearly despises me, and I swear he tried to make me...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20241 min read
Restoring my mana
There won't be a reclamation until the Wellington Greens apologise to my face. I'm serious: the words 'we thought you weren't really...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Hīkoi thoughts
Well, I genuinely enjoyed it. I thought that the organisation was really good, and that people seemed to be fairly calm. Dave Roil said...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20241 min read
Trans dignity
I'm dead serious, Marama: the party owes me an apology. All you've done is the same things that the state care people did: avoided...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20241 min read
I'm a journalist
That's something I've started saying after completing the Dakumentary. Before then, I felt rather whakamā about saying that, given that I...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 19, 20241 min read
My temper tantrums
I wasn't throwing stuff and destroying all my equipment until after The Big Smoke and the pressure that was applied to me to perform the...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 18, 20241 min read
Wāhine toa
Now, this might get me lynched, but has it ever struck anyone else that a lot of these wāhine hide behind the imagery and symbolism of...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 18, 20241 min read
No transitions!
I refuse to make Tina as a form of transition. Like, 'make this so that you can be beautiful' is not an acceptable answer. It simply...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 17, 20241 min read
No way of persuading me
Tina can't exist. That is the only truth that matters. You can like my films; you can hate my films, but they're what I'm making at the...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 17, 20241 min read
Re: the female leads
Stop asking me to portray them. If you think I should play Penelope, that's because you're sexualising me. If you think I should play...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 17, 20241 min read
Banya
Look, the Dakumentary was the dinner at Mendys. It may not have been the meal that you expected, but it ticked all the boxes. I consider...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 17, 20241 min read
Trans awareness week statement
I refuse to make the Tina movie, and I refuse to sing my original songs live. The reason is simple: I don't want to make a film with...
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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