The Day the World Stood Still: China, Australia, New Zealand, COVID19 and the Global Sick Day

 

As the herd immunity increases and the hysteria fades, for most healthy individuals the worst part will be the "Great Toilet Paper Shortage of March" and the worst will be practically having your brain skewered through your nose like it was the obligatory probing in every alien abduction story.

Being in a relatively low risk area my experience was the former...

New Zealand however wasn't so lucky, still luckier than most, but first female Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to a young Shelley Duvall (the actress who played the mother from the 1981 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Stephen King novel "The Shining") was riding high on her flawless, over achieving babysitter style of of governing, and, up until last week (I would've posted this sooner but the nature of my business can come in intermittent waves) was about to announce her reelection campaign.

Then "IT" struck...

Suddenly a small, unexplained, family cluster of the virus was discovered, the panic buying kicked in, the entire country went into "standby" mode (this included the South Island, but to a far lesser extent but even they were forced into the bunker)  

Miss Ardern, her co-prime minister and the rest of her team have since shelved the plans for now and, despite experiencing nowhere near the level of craziness that is happening across the pond...  

How to Trump your Dragon: The 2020 U.S. Election

 

In 2016 the phenomenon that is the Donald Trump presidential campaign came into existence, bright amazing reality, berated in the mainstream media (to this day) but something unique, something amazing and something truly historical... is happening again...

Stay tuned

Long time no see, guess I've been a tad busy...First Post of 2016

So, what have I been up to all this time? Mostly just riding a wave of incoming work much like opening up a wardrobe full of ping pong balls, an analogy I've probably used before as an excuse but honestly since I haven't updated this blog since September 2015 I can't account for it... While it'd be awesome to have it something like this...

It's more like this

 So it's an election year, the worlds most powerful country is picking it's leader and it's every but as crazy as it's ever been, so what better than to begin this year's posting cycle with a digital caricature, as drawn lovingly on my new(ish) iPad pro (will be doing a video about it soon)  But the main comparison I drew was Donald J. Trump and Dragon Ball Z, both are:

• Hilarious and exciting to watch and have been around way longer than most people realise/would care to admit.
• Just when you think the bad guy has won the "David vs Goliath protocol" switch is thrown and the story ends with an insane fireworks display.
• Both seem to have massive fan bases despite an overall lack of substance.
•  It's all about machismo, yelling and psychotic hair.