Ronnie Hotdogs

Every fucking March, without fail.

Finally got around to watching Train Dreams the other night. Fucking hell, what a beautiful film.
Even just visually, it’s wonderful. Colour palette and cinematography reminded me a little of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
A slow-moving, introspective masterpiece 🙌

Can’t believe we haven’t had a Bondi Rescue/Pam Bondi at the Epstein Hearings crossover yet.
Not sure even Harries and the lads could rescue her from this absolute tidal wave though😂

Is this the presidential ratings version of ‘if we don’t test/report on Covid, the number of cases will go down’?

Where do you get all this lovely timber from?

Mate, I shit you not, she ran at me and threw a tennis ball straight to my throat from a yard away 😂😂

This weekend felt like a throwback to one of those summer weekends from my childhood.
Walked Skyline from my house (Churton Park end - about 23km) on Friday.
Then spent yesterday and today with Rosie, riding bikes, going to the beach and then playing cricket until the sun went down.

It appears Cole Palmer is very much back in charge.

I’ve not really ever been unfit, just not strong.
I decided to change that at the end of October, so spent Nov stripping some body fat, then from Dec on trying to gain weight.
Have put on 3 kg since (now 81kg), which for me is fucking hard to do.
Goal is 85kg 💪

I’m 45 years old and just did my first proper pull up - two in fact.
Genuinely quite proud of myself 😂😂

Nothing at all to do with the fact no one will set foot in there since the name change though, huh Donny…

Realised this is on Soundcloud, in its entirety, tonight.
My only copy is on CD, so I’ve not had anywhere other than the car to listen to it for years.

It’s 27 years old, and the whole thing still sounds like it could be from 27 years in the future.

Best review I’ve heard so far:
If this film was shown on a plane, people would still walk out.

Twenty years old, this record.
Still sounds as good as day one 👏👏

ACT bros giving it the “well, actually…” over the Modern Slavery Bill.
Reply guys giving it the “well, actually…”
over Hitler.
And on a related note, “The Nazis were socialists” is doing the rounds again.

Cool.

Sad* to see the leader of the 1/3 Reich, Greg Bovino, being sent on his way.

*Genuinely fucking elated and can’t wait for the little shit to eventually reap what he’s been sowing.

Idiot.

God damn right I am.

FB kindly reminding me how cooked things seemed in 2017. And yet, here we are again…

Fucking hell am I sick of hearing this assimilation argument about immigration.
Just another big word to hide your racism behind. Fuck off.

Walked into the office this morning - first day back for a month - what’s the first thing I hear?

“Man, your beard has gotten waaay greyer over the holidays!”

Fuuuuuuuck sake.

ICE grabbing and detaining First Nations people now. Just in case you ever thought this was actually about immigration…

I had that between Tuesday and Friday. Just that looming dread of work next week hanging over me. Hate it.

Sun came out in Wellington just now. As a result I’ve just put some washing on, so no doubt it’ll disappear again shortly.

All these little men playing Nazi dress-ups do know how things ended for actual Nazis, right? RIGHT?!

Christ.
I remember having my daughter in A&E with a really bad virus last winter. We’d been waiting for about two hours when I overheard two nurses talking about how there actually hadn’t been a Dr there for the last 30-odd minutes after a shift had ended.

Ha! We haven’t had a heat pump since we left Auckland - this is honestly the first time I’ve missed one.

Not sure if it’s a bias, because the proportion of football I watch is English, but I’ve often felt English refs have more of a tendency to want to be the main character. Some genuinely weird individuals come out of that system 😂

Particularly in summer - heat and noise have always been triggers for me, so if I can’t open a window for cooler air at the same time it’s just enough to start rustling my jimmies 😂

Granted I’ve only lived here for 3+ years, but this spring/summer has seemed excessive. I’ve realised the endless days like this actually make me angry.
Just the noise of it is enough to push me into sensory overload 🤬😂