April 28 2008
Remedy For Restaurateur’s Bruised Ego and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 11:43 am
Retro ad: Scary Mary Quant-designed Adam and Eve magazine ad.
I’m so glad I’m over 30 and don’t have these conversations anymore.
Picture this: Daniela Edburg’s Drop Dead Gorgeous is a photo essay combining binge eating and movie deaths. “Death by Bananas” is a nod to Hitchcock’s The Birds and “Death by Cotton Candy” uses a Wizard of Oz tornado of spun sugar.
Evangelical publishing: Poneke’s book review of Absolute Power, by Ian Wishart, who responds in Poneke’s comments section.
15 things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else has, or ever will:
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
Remedy For Restaurateur’s Bruised Ego: Throw your cash at a hate campaign. Stir and watch the punters pile in to your restaurant? Two of the biggest egos in Auckland clashed last week after Restaurateur Richard Sigley (proprietor of Wellington’s Shed 5 and Pravda and Auckland’s Jervois Steak House, Pasha Bar and Euro) had a hissy fit over not making it into Metro’s Auckland’s top 50 Restaurants. Sigley took a full page ad in the Herald on Sunday with a recipe for the “Preparation of Metro Food Critic Testicles” and set up a website where people can moan about Metro magazine. The debate is off to a healthy start, with ‘Anonymous’ — who didn’t have a good Euro experience — being set upon, plus an insider who has created his/her own 20 bitter questions, and the anticipated positive Euro experiences/Metro bashing. A cynic would suggest this is merely a publicity stunt and an innovative way of generating feedback for the restaurant and the magazine. Either that or a bad case of sour (rather than fried) grapes. Join the fun here.
Wikipedia edit map: A world map that shows the location of page edits on Wikipedia, almost in real time.
Advice: 7 deadly sins of relationships.
Video: Don’t you hate it when the women you’re flirting with casually drops into conversation that she has a boyfriend? This guy really hates it. (NSFW language)
April 28th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
[...] So it seems we’re not the only ones who have an assortment of issues with Metro. Spare Room reports that Restaurateur Richard Sigley (proprietor of Wellington’s Shed 5 and Pravda and Auckland’s Jervois Steak House, Pasha Bar and Euro) had a hissy fit over not making it into Metro’s Auckland’s top 50 Restaurants and set up a “Serve Metro” website (promoted with a full-page) newspaper ad for people to come and bitch in the comments section of a blogspot site about the magazine. Hey Richard – maybe if you’d like your restaurants to be viewed in a better light, maybe you’d like to look into Shed 5’s problems with a serious lack of (fresh) soul first… [...]