I was in the Chaffer’s Park New World getting Kerry some groceries at 9pm, and it was amusing to see the place full of numb tourists realising this was pretty much the extent of Wellington’s nightlife (outside bars) on a Tuesday evening! I must’ve heard disgruntlement in six different languages.
When I lived in Brooklyn, that supermarket was the closest, but I wouldn’t shop there regularly now. Everything is about 10-20% more than the suburban supermarkets, and they have a nasty habit of having small expensive items close at hand, so you have to hunt out the larger, cheaper items. A litre of soy milk (don’t look at me, it’s Kerry’s diet) costs 60 cents more if you get it from the fridge.
Salient is looking good, but there’s a sharp and often hilarious contrast between the pages that have been properly sub-edited and the ones that Laura’s boyfriend has written Kerry didn’t get to. Check it out for 1.75 pages of my cartoons.
I think I’m going to pull out Corey Comet this week. I’m photographing the radiant Charlotte tomorrow – she changed the time to 5:30, then asked what I would do if there wasn’t any sun. “Put you under a strong light and hope,” I replied.
