Posts by Russell Brown
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Just as long as it's not the one that pops up from the side and plays video.... urgh, puts me RIGHT off the advertiser, and the site.
Won't happen here while I draw breath.
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Wishart's sailing close to his own flatulence on this one. Schollum and Shipton are pond scum rapists, but Rickards might have grounds for defamation if his lawyer catches sight of his latest ramblings on The Barking Mad Room blog...
I'd be surprised. There are obvious risks for Rickards in going to a civil court, and Wishart would presumably be able to call his police sources as witnesses. I think a defamation action would probably be a disaster for Rickards.
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You should place the top leader board ad below your site header as it looks kinda weird being the first thing you see. To me it needs framing in your site not drifting above it like a geocities ad or something.
That's one of those calls you make. It was influenced by the fact that the PA System banners already run above the mastehead.
Good luck on the ads, there's good money to be made in advertising backed web sites these days.
Yes. And I'm very happy to be partnering with Scoop. Al's my homeboy from way back, and I think Scoop has shpwn the eay for independent sites.
Agency creative is still an issue for me, but perhaps we can be a positive influence there.
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Or the inexplicable preference to random stuff drenched in sweet-and-sour sauce made using industrial process.
Oh God, New Zealand's odd affection for dodgy sweet-and-sour sauce. That goes back a way. The night of our senior ball, my date and I went to The Chinese Restaurant In Christchurch That All The White Folks Went To and ate battered meat drenched in sticky red sauce. We felt quite sophisticated.
But this is country where dining out bordered on the illegal for decades.We really knew how to fuck up food, and we merrily fucked up some of the finest raw ingredients in the world.
Before it all changed, Dunedin was generally your best bet for Chinese dining, although I was introduced to both Malaysian and sashimi (and wasabi!!) in Christchurch, by my girlfriend's bohemian intellectual American parents. There wasn't a Japanese restaurant, so they served the sashimi at home, with wasabi brought back from Auckland, I think.
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One time, I ordered french toast from a hotel cafe in Hong Kong, and got what appeared to be a deep-fried peanut-butter sandwich with golden syrup drizzled over top.
You know, there are probably people who think that sounds like a good thing ...
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I know it can work - but for example, I somehow doubt that foodcourt butter chicken (Indian food cooked by Indians for their idea of what white people want ...
Balti's a great example of that. It's frequently perceived as a genuine style of cooking, but seems to have emerged in tropical Birmingham as recently as the early 80s. The word means "bucket", basically. But when "balti houses" started turning up in London, they were widely greeted as the new, hip thing. I knew a guy who used to delight in giving his East End Indian mates gyp about the meaningless word they stuck on their restaurants to cash in.
But, then, the people who ran yer traditional British curry houses were mostly Bangladeshis anyway ...
And just to throw it all up in the air, Wikipedia reckons butter chicken is "a traditional Punjabi dish" (Little India serves it as Murg Mumtaz), but chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow as a local attempt at butter chicken itself. I've eaten curry in Glasgow: if you don't like creamy sauces, you won't find much to your taste.
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Dear old Darth. He's not exactly weighing up the arguments, is he?
And he's making stuff up. Nearly every opinion poll conducted went in favour of civil unions. The anti-homosexual law reform petition was such a shabby affair as to make baby Jesus cry. And he cleverly avoids the fact that while abortion law reform was introduced under a labour government, it was passed under a National one.
Another point he also misses is that it's very rare that people want to reverse those decisions. Even Maxim didn't want a reversal of homosexual law reform. I rather doubt even Darth does. The CIR petition to reverse prostitution law reform was a notorious flop. The drinking age question is the exception. And even there, he fails to note that Jenny Shipley voted for the original bill and that dreadful Helen Clark voted against.
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Ultimately, these are the choices of the chefs/restaurateurs themselves and reflect their compromises and expectations of what the market will respond to when it has 'ethnic' in mind ...
No doubt. But I guess that's happened to various cuisines as they've migrated anywhere (eg: Singapore, or the Vietnamese take on their coloniser's cuisine). Still not an excuse for that Poon place though ...
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Seatoun can be Ardbeg.
Now there's a whisky I actually don't like ...
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You'd think it was local body election year!
Dude! Your Gravatar turned up!
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