A brief history of New Zealand’s weirdest mystery food dumpsThe Spinoff summer reader, Friday January 3
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff’s “not quite” Daily summer reading list, published twice weekly throughout the festive break and brought to you by Resene. Today on The Spinoff: Ten ambitious political predictions for the year ahead; how a NZ animation studio is resurrecting Badjelly the Witch; remembering the local opera star brought low by mental illness; and the perplexing half-a-million-dollar decision that still haunts the book industry.
“The first sausage arrived in the summer of 2022” is the perfect opening sentence to this unwieldy sausage saga from Stuff. Waiheke resident Jacob Coetzee thought the first sausage he found in his mailbox was left by a passing drunk, until he kept receiving snags regularly for months. After sending a picture to a group chat, the plot thickened. “Some of them had been sausaged as well,” he said. “That’s when we realised we had a serial sausager on the island.”
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Ten wild political predictions for 2025 The NZ ‘voice of the century’ who wound up in a psych hospital for 16 years How Mukpuddy conjured up a bold new vision of Badjelly the Witch ‘It was just the right word’: When ‘bugger’ took New Zealand by storm On being undeniably, irretrievably old
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The half-a-million-dollar decision that still haunts the book industry All 85 of The Spinoff’s rankings, ranked from worst to best Remembering my awkward high-school exchange to Germany Prison or nothing: The ‘self-perpetuating downward spiral’ in New Zealand’s mental health system
The Spinoff’s Anna Rawhiti-Connell is joined by Emma Wehipeihana and Hayden Donnell, live on stage at Q Theatre in Auckland. They jump backwards into the year’s headlines, political dramas, and some of the best Spinoff yarns. Listen to the recording of this Spinoff Live event for a smattering of karaoke, a Ray Gun retrospective, a vote on whether Hayden is "brat", predictions for 2025, and some spicy takes about 2024's big moments.
Page-turning rural gothic: Ash by Louise Wallace, reviewed Ka tuku te rākau: Handing over the baton of protest to a new generation A drink with Lucinda Light, the greatest MAFS participant of all time Getting jiggy with it: Inside the wild world of competitive speed puzzling
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