The Good, the Bad & the Brownlee

Christchurch Rebuild: Tumblin' Tumbleweeds

Christchurch's Fabulous Festival of Bureaucratic Inertia

Tales From the Rockstar Economy

Gerry's totalitarian bureaucracy delivers for its Australian-based parent.

Happy Anniversary from the CERA Boys

All Fun & Games Until Someone Loses A Court Case

Roger Unchained

 

No more Mr Pop-Up Picnics.

The Damnation of Roger Sutton

With apologies to the memory of Boris O'Klein.

Roger Rebuild

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery CEO Roger Sutton kicks off the year with yet another warm fuzzy-laden speech from the throne.

The Boss Sings the Boss

In a rare public performance Earthquake Commission supremo Ian Simpson swore on a stack of PDFs that, perceptions aside, his organisation was really and truly doing its best. Quake czar Roger Sutton was sufficiently moved to renounce stadiums and convention centres and dedicate himself to ministering to widows and asthmatics. Or something like that.

Lyrics: © Bruce Springsteen, My Best Was Never Good Enough

Choking Hazard

Christchurch City Council's star action figures.

Going somewhere kids?

Fairy Gifts From the Gerry Godmother

Damping Down the Demand

"People are really keen to hear what's going on. It's almost an insatiable demand for information."

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery frontman Roger Sutton revealed his true colours asserted his priorities at Thursday's $700+ per head Seismics and the City event when he stressed the need to keep the lid on people's expectations in post-quake Canterbury. So no rarking up of the insurance industry or intervention in the out of control housing crisis, but every chance of yet more pop-up picnic events.

Gnome Scam Alert

It's Fraud Awareness Week, and while it may be all but over the residually garden festival-themed folks at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority have issued a timely warning. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with closing those pesky quake-related loopholes that your insurance company discovered.