poster kids: advice

Tena koutou e hoa ma

(Formal greeting to three or more friends)

This post is dedicated to our number one fan who goes by the name of L. This is because I think it's great to let people who do something you like know that you like it, since they'd never know if no one bothered to say anything. L's comment on my earlier post about THE PRIZE is an example of this, because now I know that people I do not know personally read and njoy this blog which makes me happy and inspired to write more posts such as this one.

Too often I have read or seen something that I really liked, seen the creator at a later date and not told them how much I liked it, because of some weird stigma that it's somehow embarrassing or creepy to acknowledge someone else's work if you don't really know the person. As a result I now try to acknowledge generally awesome acts of creativity, whether it is through commenting via the internet or telling them in person (and probably freaking them out with too much enthusiasm...) I've always been pretty good at thanking food live bands after they play (on one occasion Nick and I both bought the Alazarin Lizard album after they played at the Dux then went around each of the band members asking for signatures) but I still need to improve on work of the visual/written variety. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that praise is good so you should aim to praise at least one person today.

BACK TO HAIKU WHAREPAKU: These haiku were conceived on the night that spag junx hosted Lucy's 21st party, so as a result i'm not sure who wrote them as there was a large influx of people using our wharepaku. It was a good night that involved flowers.