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Moata Tamaira

Moata is a freelance writer, award-winning blogger, and self-confessed library nerd from Christchurch. Advanced snark expertise. Lead choreographer of living room YouTube dance parties.

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The Geek Edit: Star Wars

By Moata Tamaira

It’s less than six months until a new Star Wars movie hits our screens with the release of Episode VII: The Force Awakens  on…

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Front L-R - Host Brendon Bennetts with panellists Jeff Clark and Erin Harrington. Rear L-R - Panellists Centuri Chan, Ben Allan & Matt Powell
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Is ‘The Nerd Degree’ your new favourite podcast?

By Moata Tamaira

What do you get if you cross the panel quiz show format with a handful of unabashed pop culture enthusiasts and record it in…

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How to dress like a Tardis (without looking boxy)

By Moata Tamaira

So you want to express your Doctor Who fandom via the medium of clothing. Fair enough. You don’t have to look too far to find…

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Taste Test Lab: Alcoholic Ginger Beers

By Moata Tamaira

There was a time when if you asked for a ginger beer at a bar or café you’d get a confused look and be…

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This Video Will Change The Way You Feel About Ricky Gervais Forever

By Moata Tamaira

Ricky Gervais is a polarising figure. He’s an outspoken atheist. He’s prone to spouting off in a way that makes him seem quite arrogant….

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HAPA Design Store: Loving The Local

By Moata Tamaira

To step into HAPA design store is to enter an Aladdin’s cave of beautiful, covetable things. You know, if the cave were actually a…

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Those ducks were witness to so much...
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Know Your Kitsch: Three Flying Ducks

By Moata Tamaira

Is there anything you can hang on a living room wall that screams mid-century, middle class suburbia more than a trio of ceramic ducks?…

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Who' da boss? YOU da boss!
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How to… Library Like a Boss

By Moata Tamaira

Forget what you think you know about libraries. Dusty leather tomes watched over by even dustier leathery librarians? That’s Old World thinking.

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The Ultimate Princess Bride Movie Snack Guide

By Moata Tamaira

Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters…jelly snakes?

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