I love radio. I love it when it's done well. I love it when it's done, err, not so well, but well enough that it still brings a smile to my face. Like this clip here: Thanks Josh and Tom for this. Made me smile.
From 3news.co.nz: "A six-year-old boy has been found hiding in a cardboard box in his family's garage after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles through the sky on live television." What the...? No, really: WTF? (Play video to see John agree with me...) As if this story making 'news' wasn't bad enough, a video of the little grimer has now surfaced on youtube. Of him rapping with his mates. Sigh... Crapsicle.
The main source of heat in our home is a wet-back log burner in the living room. It's fantastic at its job when loaded with tea tree logs and a load of dried pine cones. The fact that it is wet-back, means we save on our electrical water heating costs as well. Recently, however, the log burner was out of service for several days while we waited for a chimney sweep to visit. This occured during a really cold spell in Auckland and I am forced to admit we plugged the small, pretty hopeless electric heater in. Its inefficiency meant we ...
A good friend of mine currently living the United States drew to my attention the headline chosen by the New York Post this week to report on the Iranian election crisis: 'Turban Warfare'. Obviously some little misinformed spade at the Post came up with this irrelevant pap some months after 9/11 and has been waiting for a 'suitable' time for its publication for the best part of eight years. When turmoil erupted in Iran recently, they presumably ignored the advice of several more-educated interns at the paper and ran the headline anyway. It's a real shame for them, getting it wrong on ...
My lack of posts throughout May was to simply due to the sheer expense and consequential stress the month managed to bring. A puncture on the return journey from Matakana at the beginning of the month was to set the bad luck rolling, this alone resulting in the need for two new car tyres to get the car through its WOF (Warrant of Fitness, like an MOT, but spelt different). On returning home that night, we prepared some food to cook, only to see the little blue flame of the gas stove flicker out and not re-ignite until I refilled the ...
I know I’m officially ‘going on about it’ now, but I really can’t wait for Outrageous Fortune Series 5 to start! I don’t think I’ve seen a TV show as good as this since The A-Team.
Here’s the ‘Coming Soon’ ad they’ve been playing on TV3:
Super choice!!
I mentioned a while back that we had gotten into Outrageous Fortune, since moving to West Auckland. For those of you who haven’t seen it, OF is about a family trying to go straight after living with crime in their DNA since, like forever. The show features an amazing cast (Ugly Betty fans may recognise one; Black Sheep fans may recognise another!) who put on a really good show, the scripts are excellent and the storylines cover just about every aspect of life. There are also a few local-to-us scenes and West Auckland mentions.
It’s just really darn good and we have become as close as is possible to being addicted to a TV show. We are about half way through series 4 and desperate to finish it before series 5 begins on TV3.
So imagine my delight when I found this yesterday:
Talk about timing! I reckon we’ll just finish Series 4 just in time… Go Westies!
Good stuff. Since the very first time I watched the Dudley Moore classic ‘Crazy People’, I have been wanting more advertisers to take gambles on campaigns like this. Not full on detrimental stuff, just a bit more honest.
Cadbury’s and Moro have done just that with their latest gem of an ad: ‘New Zealand’s 4th Favourite Bar’. It’s totally not honest (well, it could be, but for the ‘allegedly’ featured at the end of the ad), but it makes a refreshing change from bores like ‘the diamond standard’ or ‘kills 99.99% of all known germs’ (both from other choc ads!). To make matters better, it’s a really funny ad too…
Has anyone else ever surpassed your expectations with an advertisement? Anyone ever deprecated their own product in the name of sales? Comments below, please. I’d love to know…
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