June 21 2009
Waiting Topless and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:24 pm
Retro TV: NZ On Screen has Beauty and the Beast Christmas Special from 1982. Fronted by Selwyn Toogood and screening weekday afternoons from 1976 to 1985, a group of female panellists tried to solve the problems of housewives across the nation. Toogood played the bloke as a foil to his wise panel of ladies. “We tackle every problem, be it incest, love or tatting. We answer every problem without an eyelid batting,” chimes a poetic panelist. Resplendent with sit-down sing alongs, it looks like it was made for the retirement home crowd.
My new favourite blog: First there was the Hospital Food Blog, now here’s the School Food Blog.
Get out of the house: Film Festival Programme is out. Go here.
Mmmm: Leighton Smith… er, ruminates…
Waiting Topless: a short documentary: The Grand View Topless Coffee shop in Vassalboro, Maine opened in February 2009, “Yes, I am a topless waitress, but I’m just a regular normal person in society…I honestly don’t think in this economy right that there is a job out there that would pay roughly the same.” Tasteful, but NSFW.
Strange Products: Busting on the golf course? Try this, but only if you have a penis.
Video: Hey Telecom NZ! Now this is how you market high speed internet; with originality and humour. Not with a Brit celeb famous for crashing, fudged stunts and a wacky fashion designer. (Delivery of much hyped speeds not necessary)
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
In the topless waiting video, did she say that “in this current economy” she couldn’t find a job that gauranteed $100 a week, or $400 a week? She mumbles it and I can’t make it out, but the difference would make a considerable difference to the obvious wailing of the soundtrack.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
I am pretty sure she says 400 dollars per week and she also says she “only works for tips”. What happened to wages !
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
Remcamoli – a lot of US service industry workers (tour guides, waiting staff etc) aren’t paid wages, they only get tips. Thank goodness for minimum wage here eh!
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I love this quote from the Uroclub ad – “comes equipped with a unique removable golf towel clipped to the shaft that functions as a privacy shield!”
Um, so which ’shaft’ do you think they are referring to?
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am
Gives a whole new meaning to the term “water hazard” as well.
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
That Uroclub is cool. Would it look strange carrying a golf club at the pub? Sometimes the toilets can seem so far away.