To Michelle

Yes, I know you're still reading. I see your profile image changed. I'm not happy. I feel like you betrayed me, and want to pretend as if you didn't. Chose the job with the uni, then tried to lure me back to further your career. Didn't care whether I was getting paid or not. Seemed kinda selfish. If you wanted to film my script, why didn't you just ask me? - The Māori journey has been something else. Mystic visions and hidden royalty: it's a way better plot than most of my fictional movies. Still doesn't feel 100% real. Been too poor to visit the relatives, but the Te Pāti Māori AGM and J Day are coming up. Inheriting from my grandma. Hopefully it'll arrive by then. Going to spend some of it campaigning for AMPP. Seriously considering standing in my electorate. - The satire has been a huge success. Even outside NZ. People say the AI fruit heads are difficult to understand, but they're all old. I remember you mentioned that you thought I was funny. Most people didn't. They do now, but that's the glamour aspect of my craft. All those devices are ways of turning around their natural distaste for me (or weed). Lots of people have parasocial relationships with AMPP. - Being a celebrity is awful. I hate it. Attempting to own it these days, though. Being rich and famous seems fun. Being poor and famous is a pain. Carmen was into publicity, and I'm fascinated by the game of PR. These days, they all want to recruit me. I see myself as the anti-PR party. I like to fantasise I'm one of those early Labour MPs living in a garage in the 1920's, building the momentum for social change. The boycott was a stroke of genius. I wasn't going to any gigs anyway, but by billing it that way, I got a lot of heat -- I was bullied by Tory and the SIS -- but my second wind after the overdose has turned it into a winner. As a masochist, the frustration of activism is a good fit. Persistence is the key. Minto and Gary say that. - My personal life hasn't existed since 2023. It's been 24/7 surveillance since then. Probably was from 2021, but who knows for sure? There's a private side to being on the inside of politics, but it's public to all insiders. My novelty is in being transparent about the insider stuff.