The Chicken Salad Sandwich at The Fed on Federal Street, Auckland. It comes with dipping gravy, people. DIPPING GRAVY.
The timeless design of the Atari 800XL.

Atari never really got it right again. Their 8-bit computers, both before and after, look horribly dated now. For proof check out the Atari XE.

Ugh.

3. Adele Jackson's illustration work. Really looking forward to her contribution to Three Words, a New Zealand women's comic anthology due out next year.

4. Nothing Fits a comic book by Mary Tamblyn and Alex McCrone about clones, Egyptian gods, cats selling fried goods and fighting rat monarchs. It's a genre mish-mash quest story on the outside, but it's really about families and relationships. Particularly the kind that fuck you up. I recommend purchasing with haste, but you can read the whole thing online.

5. This great art by Rene Astle I bought at the Spark Centre. I love how fluid the figures are and how his lines are assured and strong. I wish I could draw with such confidence. My favourite is the guy second from the right.

6. This actually arrived in the mail as I was writing this post. It's a book and album by Jason Webley and friends. To crib from the Kickstarter page: "It's based on the life and writings of Margaret Rucker, an Everett pioneer whose scrapbook was found in a dumpster in San Francisco."

The project is a living emblem of that fascination that comes over you when you find old letters from people you never knew or a box of decades old photos. The book is fascinating. The music's not bad either. Favourites so far are both by Eliza Rickman: Lark Of My Heart and Maker Of My Sorrow. I believe there are still copies available for sale.