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June 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Half Time At The Housewarming, The Fire Roaring, The Pass-Around Food Is Lovely…
Eventually ol’ Fitzy or Trev or Mucka or Graeme or whatever the name was, asked me what sport was my favourite – my rugby-bluffing had been going about as well as the game itself. I told him I watched a lot of basketball – and loved it. And he gestured, adding “oh yeah, the hat”. […]Archive
January 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Rob Simonsen: The Way Back (OST)
Rob Simonsen The Way Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music The Way Back was an okay movie, an occasionally ‘good’ or at least thoughtful movie – but where it’s been heralded as a great sports drama, the real story was the one of addiction and attempts at redemption; not really a sports drama at […]Archive
November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 237: Jackson Nieuwland
Welcome to episode 237 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
November 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Three-Pointer
1. I love basketball! 2. I’m not very good! 3. This doesn’t matter!Archive
May 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 250 – Hawks vs. Huskies, Napier, 2019
Over the last few years I’ve got back into basketball – at first casually, and then with a lot more interest – even buying a ball and going back to shooting hoops and obviously I’m currently bereft because there’s not only no live basketball to get to (or watch on TV) but also I’ve finished […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of Hobbies Where You Kinda Suck: The Wonderful Experience of Being Quite Shit
I was never the greatest drummer. But I made a living from it. For a while. I made more money playing the drums in bands around the country than I have ever made from writing. I’d pack the car for a weekend and play songs I didn’t love to audiences there for beer and I […]Archive
February 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Dream Team
Summer Olympics, 1992. The American basketball squad was called The Dream Team; it was the first time they’d let all the NBA players of the day into the national team. It was like something out of an action movie; a revenge-play because they’d been beaten by the Soviet Union. They couldn’t get Sly Stallone, Bruce […]Archive
April 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 224 – Cigna Saints, Wellington, 2019
I had a really great chat with a Facebook friend the other day. We had never met. But he recognised me and got chatting about things I’d written and from there we had a huge conversation about the arts and culture and content and contributing and how being an audience member, a consumer, is part of the […]Archive
February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman