NZ summer rulz, okay?
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3741 21st Jan 2012
We’re Kiwis, so yeah, we’ve never learnt how to spell “sensible”.
Jon Bridges
Jon Bridges is a freelance writer, sometime TV presenter and fulltime TV producer who currently makes the TV3 comedy show 7 Days. Jon comes from Palmerston North and it was his desperate need to find something interesting to do there as a teenager that led to an interest first in escapist writing, then to actually escaping the Knowledge City, which he now regards with an excess of nostalgic tenderness. Jon’s first love is cycling and he constantly struggles, when writing his far-fetched humorous columns, to avoid writing each and every one of them about some aspect of bicycle culture. He’s sure that one day he will be made Minister of Bikes. Jon is married to Gemma and lives in Balmoral, the Palmerston North of Auckland. Uncomfortable writing in the third person, Jon has kept this biography short.
Sick from work
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3733 23rd Nov 2011
How do you convince the boss you’re sick without lying?
Jon Bridges solves natural mystery
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3725 3rd Oct 2011
A skinny Kiwi and some fat Americans solve one of nature’s great mysteries.
Captain James Cook’s ship’s blog
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3719 20th Aug 2011
Captain Cook’s ship’s blog endeavours to go where no man has gone before.
Bananarama/Bainimarama
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3711 20th Jun 2011
Fiji’s leader talks openly about coups, censorship, the World Cup and Bananarama.
Larger than life
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3705 9th May 2011
My life pales into insignificance beside a ginormous flatscreen.
Nouns and verbs
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3701 11th Apr 2011
Hate nouns being turned into verbs? Serenise yourself.
Hits and myths
By Jon Bridges in Inbox
Issue 3688 15th Jan 2011
Thanks, New Zealand On Air, for funding a series in which I will dismantle great New Zealand myths.