Dear Jim Anderton,
I once had a dream of New Zealand as the Amsterdam of the South Seas, a place where tourists could come and smoke marijuana in cafes with a Polynesian ambience, experience mild psychedelics while watching sunsets over West Coast beaches, get ramped up on stimulants for all-night parties, and experience meaningful encounters […]

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Saki
At 10:00am, I convinced my partner to go to Hard-To-Find Books in Onehunga because I didn’t have anything new to read. The day was bright and clear. As we were driving he was talking but I didn’t listen to him much. “I do not know why I bother talking to you,” he said, changing down […]

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In 1962, the police in the American city of Mansfield, Ohio set up a survelliance operation in a men’s restroom located below a city street. Installing a camera behind a restroom mirror, the police filmed the sexual activities of the men who visited the facility.

The resulting series of 16mm films were used in court to […]

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The sound of summer is everything from a marketing wet dream for the music industry to something that is personally important for each of us. In this Music Age our lives sometimes seem to be nothing more than compilation albums, from birth to death. There are tracks that say ‘childhood’, ‘first love’, ‘drugs’, friends’, ‘dance’, […]

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Sud
Peeling off the kilometers down the Nationale Sept. He is playing Georges Delerue’s themes from the movie Le Mépris on the Renault’s CD player because I asked him to but he is not speaking to me. He is moody. I smoke a Marlboro Lite. The long black liquid reach of the road sizzles in the […]

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[You wake up in New Zealand after 5 days in Australia for the 30th Annual Gay and Lesbian Sydney Mardi Gras and you try and put it all together in your head, ordering the thousands and thousands of impressions and reactions, trying to get a handle on your own experience of it, not only the […]

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