Kia ora, these are –
2014 WednesdayBusk Gertrude Stein Sick Joke of the Year -for his masterly evasion tactics, tap-dancing a speciality, winner of the Best Lyric, CRAFTY (can’t remember a fucking thing, yeah) – let’s hear it for Amnesiac‘s lead singer – John Key
2014 WednesdayBusk Emma Goldman (if there’s no dancing at the revolution I’m not coming) Star of the Year Award – Ngawira Logan who leads the Exercise Classes for Kori Kaumatua at Nga Purapura. Twice a week she instructs us, cajoles us, persuades us into doing stuff we never thought we could or would do including dancing. The class has grown and grown and grown – still room for you though…Homai te pakipaki.
2014 WednesdayBusk Kate Sheppard (All that separates us, whether of race, class, creed or sex, is inhuman and must be overcome) White Ribbon Award – for her staunch work for Women and Children, President of the Federation of Labour, Helen Kelly.
2014 WednesdayBusk Sappho Prick of the Year – and current holder of the Smiling Smiling Villain 2014 Iago Master Manipulator award, (that’s who I am, I call women Honey and Love, I’m sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings) Roger Sutton, former Head of CERA, found guilty of serious misconduct. Roger beat other entrants on the Gall-O-Meter by a country mile.
2014 WednesdayBusk Mae West Dicks of the Year Award– The Roastbusters – for showing us that mysogyny still rules – police say photos and captions saying we got these under-sixteens drunk and then had group sex with them, is teenage boys boasting, not evidence and the court agrees with them.
2014 WednesdayBusk Mother Jones No Bullshit award – Sue Bradford – for resigning from the Mana Party when they began their affaire with the Internet Party. As for Laila Harre, what the hell were you thinking? Oh Laila.
2014 WednesdayBusk (Solidarity forever) Surprise Surprise Trick of the year Award – raise a glass of red to Andrew Little – everyone (except me) said he’d be a union pawn, a failure, monosyllabic, grim, the death knell of the Labour Party – then he did exactly the opposite. I claim no prescience, no faith, he wouldn’t have been my first pick (silly me) if I’d had a vote but I just got sick of everyone moaning and wondered what happened to ‘wait and see’?
2014 WednesdayBusk Ukulele For Beginners (if anyone plays Red River Valley again, so help me, I’ll chuck this ukulele in the river) award, to my Ukulele Group, in five years we’ve passed the sign saying hopeless and are now approaching five-star territory – on the good friends rating though, Jamie, Jill, Joy, Margarette – ten stars to each one of you.
