That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Coolguy.website

Residing so peacefully in his digital home

Hello, I am Zach Mandeville and this is my homepage! I am a comedian, writer, and friend living in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

This space is my online home, garden, notebook, library, lab, altar, riverside picnic, and chill zone. It is my calm spot on the web and I hope you find some nice stuff here too.

You can read the original manifesto for this site to understand my inspiration.

Upcoming shows

If you want to catch me in person, and we don't already have lunch plans, then come on out to a show!

Gearhorn
August 07, 8pm to 10:00pm at Newtown Community Centre

The next airhorn is a big one! We are doing a faithful recreation of everyone's favourite 2000's show Top Gear! You picked the theme, we put on the show!

This is going to be jampacked with laughs and car facts and the feel of everything aging poorly.

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If you want to keep in touch with me subscribe to my newsletter! It is an eclectic, entertaining ramble sent out seasonally.

You can also email me directly at webmaster[at]coolguy[dot]website

I'm also on Cuba and Dixon a lot and hang out at the Newtown Community Centre often too. If you see me and wave, I'll wave back, then prolly come over and talk to you. We can figure out somewhere to go from there.

I've got a new radio show!

Logo by Angelica

My friend Leki and I started a weekly radio show, Rabbit Hole Radio.

It airs on the radio every Monday, 9pm on Radio Access Wellington, and can be listened to online after on our show page.

We also have our own homepage, but it's v. small and slight at the moment: rabbitholeradio.nz

And my pride and joy Airhorn!

My friends and I regularly put on a weirdo comedy show I am so proud to be a part of: AIRHORN.

It happens at the Newtown Community Centre. Awarded the most innovative comedy show in Wellington, two years running, and the mayor of wellington said we were ushering in a new golden age. You gotta check it out!

We have a website here: airhorn.nz

Recent Changes

Added Rabbit Hole Radio and Airhorn to home page.
9 Jun, 2026

I have a new radio show I wanted to share, and realized I hadn't really talked about Airhorn on my homepage, and it's a huge part of my life. So I added both to the homepage, to give a better view of what I am up to now.
French Translation for Map is the Territory
1 Jun, 2026

My friends Vincent and Anouck made a French translation of Map is the Territory. It made me really happy, so added it to coolguy as well as solarpunk.cool. check it out →
Added more links
29 May, 2026

I added my friend Miles and some awesome local groups to my links page. But also added a links page, if you didn't know it was there. check it out →

Visit the full changelog to see every change to the site (since I started tracking it).

Explore my site!

A drawing and quote by Ted Nelson, from his book "Computer Dreams". He is a hero of mine and inspiration for this site. I wrote an ode to him you can read.