Alive: aboveground animate animated breathing bright-eyed and bushy-tailed capable of life chipper conscious endowed with life enjoying health enlivened eupeptic existent fine fit fit and fine full of beans healthful healthy in condition in fine fettle in fine whack in good case in good health in good shape in health in high feather in mint condition in shape in the flesh in the pink inspirited instinct with life live living long-lived quick tenacious of life very much alive viable vital vivified zoetic. Kicking: sticking the boot in. Still alive after 11 years and 11 collections of columns Joe Bennett sticks the boot into Beckhamania golf umbrellas beer ads Hillary Clinton all sorts of bureaucrats and a fatso from the Middle East who flies halfway round the world to shoot our deer. But he writes loving stuff too about fish and postcards and Pavarotti and butter and dead dogs. From his fastness in Lyttelton New Zealand's best-loved columnist once again dissects the weird wide and sometimes less than wonderful world with peerless wit and concision.