Sunday People 10
What’s Hot
The Gingerbread Haka stormed the web last week generating over 2000 visitors and 3000 page views to the video on this website. The Baking Industry Association’s treatment of our haka was destined to be controversial. Read some of the comments to see for yourself. I wonder if the new Adidas television commercial promoting the All Blacks for the World Cup will generate the same vitriol, or it is ok if it’s for rugby?
Gabriel and Bob from Wellington restaurant Boulot rocked last Friday. The pork is to die for and the service is just sublime. Speaking of cooking, the blatant use of Hayley Holt’s image in a David Farrar’s post caused a stir amongst that blogs’ readership.
Ins & Outs
It was good to see Andy Ellis made the AB World Cup team but a bummer for Piri Weepu. And it seems David Benson-Pope is on the way out if he did know in advance about the sacking of Madeleine Setchell.
And Wellington has an lively undercurrent of exhibitionists if this dogging article on the Wellingtonista is anything to go by. The new lingo makes me feel old.
For your entertainment
You can now see your favourite MP on the net. Tickets to live narrowcast viewing of the Parlimentary Circus are now available. But to do something much more useful, design a teeshirt with The Hinitiative and the Wellington City Mission.
Finally, Raglan artist, Karla Stevenson is an up ‘n comer to collect and enjoy. This piece is called ‘The Old Bach’.
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 pm
GBH was my 6th biggest cumulative post (visitors, views and search)since starting in April, and certainly my biggest last week. At this rate it’s likely to be the Kiwi marketing coup of the year, despite the controversy.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I can’t work out why Benson-Pope is taking all the heat on this, as I imagine that Climate Change Minister David Parker would have had just as much reason to jump up and down about Madeleine Setchell being hired at MfE.