Calling Whanganui

We danced with the ghost of a whale

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November 2025

Eat, Emote, and Not Be England

Do Kiwis have a Thanksgiving?

Nov 26 • 

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October 2025

Don't Buy an Axe

You can map a nation's borders by the jokes that don't land

Oct 30 • 

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We Were Guaranteed a Haka

Anyone ever shout how much they love you, Gerry?

Oct 16 • 

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September 2025

No Country for Half-Size Sneakers

Disposable cool on consumerism's farthest shore

Sep 25 • 

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Is New Zealand Better, or Just Behind?

What timeline are we in?

Sep 18 • 

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Bad Dads with a Gun

Breaking the myths that got us here

Sep 11 • 

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Expat Life is a Hell of a Drug

An immigrant dad gets clean

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

The Exclusive Club of New Zealand Natives

Can you love a bird without a border?

Aug 28 • 

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I Pretend to Write a Letter from the Morning City

Meetup Friday in Welly! Sam Hunt is taking notes

Aug 13 • 

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You Got No Secrets to Conceal

Notes from America, Part 2: Salina Confessions

Aug 7 • 

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Governed, Careful, and Diet Stoned

Notes from America, Part 1: What's changed

Aug 4 • 

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