ISSUE 22 28 September 2009 Credits: EDITOR: Joshua Drummond (editor@nexusmag.co.nz) DESIGN: Talia Musson (graphics@nexus-npl.co.nz) ADVERTISING: Tony Arkell (ads@nexusmag.co.nz) NEWS EDITOR: Grant Burns (news@nexusmag.co.nz) SUB-EDITOR: Louise Blackstock WEB GURU: Jed Laundry (jlaundry@gmail.com)
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MUSIC EDITOR: Nick Johnstone (music@nexusmag.co.nz) FILM EDITOR: Kirill Kruger (films@nexusmag.co.nz) BOOKS EDITOR: Art Focker (books@nexusmag.co.nz)
by Joshua Drummond
GAMES EDITORS: Antony and Chris Parnell (games@nexusmag.co.nz)
“Nexus loves you. But we’d like to know how to love you even betterer”
Contributors 8 Ball, WSU, Kirill, Burton C. Bogan, Dr Richard
You’re a finicky beast. It’s hard to know just what’s going on in your head. You have so many moods. Sometimes you’re passionate, but more often you just... sit. You don’t always do a lot. Oh, you like a good time, sure, but really, you’re just trying to get through your life with all its tiny dramas and repeating scenarios and difficulties and demons. Maybe that’s why you don’t worry, or try not to worry, about the bigger things. It’s difficult to digest fact and figures when you’ve got another assignment on and one that’s going to be late if you don’t really kick it hard tonight. Drink a bunch of coffee and stay up till the birds start shrilling and the cold light breaks through the curtains and you’ve got that funny taste in your mouth, the tin taste of late nights and no sleep. Then there’s the job, and the arseholes that you work with want you to cover an extra shift for them this weekend. It’s all a bit too much. Also, there’s the party on Saturday, and how are you going to balance all that with worrying about the news article you skipped over in Nexus? You need a laugh. It’s eight AM on a Thursday, the weekend isn’t much of a break because you’re working it all away. Nexus is there for you, baby. Nexus is always there. Nexus loves you. Sure, you don’t see us quite like we see you, or how we’d like to be seen, but it’s okay. Shh, it’s okay. We’ll smooth away the stress. We’ll give you something to giggle at in the humourless confines of an MGMT 201 lecture. Nexus loves
you. But we’d like to know how to love you even betterer. You see, we don’t know much about you. We know some things. Like that you enjoy funny articles, and amusing pictures, and even the odd well-written cohesive feature here and there. You like Lettuce and captions and the other things like the caption competition that you enter in an oddly sporadic fashion. You like News, and Reviews, and even Editorials. Sometimes. We know you dislike some things, but we don’t always know what they are. We’ve helped you, lots. We gave you laughs. We gave you distractions and wit and good times, good times. We need you to help us. You see, we feel a bit left out sometimes. Like you suck out all our love but give nothing in return. But you can fix all that, repair this one-sided relationship, make us happy again.
Swainson, Josh, Grant Burns, Mammoth, HCAC, Jason Sebestian, Penny Wilson, Antony Parnell, Nick Johnston, Louise Blackstock, Emma Swete, Hollie Jackson, Jason Sebestian, Dawn Tuffery, Teresa Hattan, Morgon de Groot, Enisa Kartal, Gordon Dawson, Emma Swete, Jed Laundry, and Art. Nexus is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) Because it makes things easier. Sometimes. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS PUBLICATION ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF NEXUS PUBLICATIONS 2003 LTD, ANY OF OUR ADVERTISERS, THE WSU, APN, THE EDITOR, OR ANYONE. NEXUS: PROUDLY PROVINCIAL SINCE AH WHO ARE WE KIDDING LET’S MOVE TO MELBOURNE ALREADY
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