Paul Potiki

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A Kiwi in Oz. Disappointingly average. Aggressively mediocre. Determinedly unlucky. Individual parts of my life may sound way more interesting than they really were.

A NASA poster celebrating the anniversary of the Viking landing craft on Mars, showing other Mars vehicles around it.
A Karitane sunset, photo by John Scott
Dungeons and Dragons (2000) poster. The one with Jeremy Irons and Marlon Wayans.
While correcting someone, Homer mispronounces "Nuclear".
The Shark In Charlie's Window, a book by Keo Felker Lazarus, about a boy who finds a shark that can fly.
You are Technically Correct, the best kind of Correct
Rory from Animal Kwackers, a large blue lion with a gaping mouth and a guitar.
A vintage poster, crowded with text
Spaceship Surprise from Sesame Street
Edna Mode says Too Much, Darling!
Shirley Temple giggle
Professor Farnsworth says: "Wait, That's Not Good News At All!"
Graeme Garden as Arthur C Clarke failing to spot the Loch Ness Monster.
Darrell Lea raspberry liquorice allsorts
A headline reads "Melbourne teenager allegedly stabbed to death identified"
A brilliant golden sunrise.
Greg Evigan as BJ (and the Bear)
Feels Like 8°C
A blue, yellow, white, and black soccer ball, with official FIFA logo for 2023.
Snoopy and Woodstock on a red doghouse. An official Lego set.
Harrison Page as Captain Trunk on Sledge Hammer!
I think these are called mummatus clouds. Or maybe not.
Abe Vigoda in Fish
Rogue Trooper art by Will Simpson
A 2000AD cover of Slaine by Glenn Fabry. A close up of Slaine's face, sweaty and stubbled, an eye swollen and bleeding, his hair falling through the letters of the 2000AD logo. He utters the single word SLAY.
Chicago's river turned green for St Patrick's Day.
A partial section of the lyrics to The Four Horsemen by Aphrodite's Child, where random fa-fa-la-la sounds regularly repeat.
The Second Hundred Years, with Monte Markham as two characters, one his own Dad who had been buried in snow for 60 years so they were the same age.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers dancing on a painfully obviously stage-bound set.
Iron Man MK1
Pog Design's TV calendar schedule only shows one lonely TV show from my choices beginning, and even then not until the 21st.
Better Off Ted, a hilariously subversive comedy about an evil chemical company run by decent but quirky people.
The UK Government ads for its Cyber First programme
Thought balloon
The Bad Guys, an animated movie about talking animals who are also criminals
The Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art
Rick - The Young Ones
Lickspittle 1
UK comedian Jimmy Tarbuck
Doc Brown changes his mind
Snoopy and Woodstock on a red doghouse. All made of (genuine) Lego.
Floyd Pepper and Janice from the Muppets
Eddie and Rhiannon, Sophie's Friends. A couple of hippie freaks who seem to have forgotten what year it is
Keith Shackleton draws animals with a charcoal stick
Jeff Goldblum's famous Jurassic Park quote
The Labyrinth is populated with Jareth and Sarah, against some forced perspective Escher stairs.
It's me and my Mum circa 2014
Kristy McNichol as Buddy Lawrence in the 70s show Family. She was also in Apple's Way around the same time.
The Perlin Noise Skies
Evening Rain
Planet of the cardboard walls
Magellan, an early search engine portal
Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer, and Michele Dotrice as Betty Spencer, in Some Mothers Do Ave Em
More Escher topsy turvy shenanigans.
Cobblers. It's rhyming slang: "cobbler's awls" for "balls"
A small 16x16 assembly of Lego pieces with archways and stairs to nowhere, Escher-style
Thomas the Tank Engine sequel series
Troi wore a skirt in the first episode, and then an ugly jumpsuit ever after. Shame.