December 10 2010
Lager Giveaway and Other Choice Links
posted by Spare Room admin at 8:10 am
Lager Giveaway: Monteith’s are offering Spare Room readers a chance to sample their Single Source lager — a new brew which can trace its hops and barley back to a single source. The idea is to create a beer that’s traceable and true to the land it came from — in this case the barley is from Rakaia and the hops are from Motueka. What? A new beer with no macho-marketing?
We have a dozen Monteith’s Single Source lager to give away to five lucky readers…
December 09 2010
Irish Wanking Bankers
posted by Spare Room admin at 9:13 pmOne articulate Irishman explains the demise of the Celtic Tiger (the Irish economy)…Warning: colourful language.
November 23 2010
Dear John…
posted by Ana Samways at 10:57 amRemember this 1980s ad for a bygone technology? This Kiwi classic for BASF cassette tapes used a catchy tune performed by NZ jingle king (and former member of The Underdogs) Murray Grindlay and ad industry diva Jacqui Fitzgerald — an adaptation of the 1953 Jean Shepard/Ferlin Husky hit “A Dear John Letter”. Pioneering NZ filmmaker Tony Williams directed, creating a Korean War/M*A*S*H* setting and using a Wellington quarry as a stand-in…
November 23 2010
Comply With Me
posted by Ana Samways at 3:31 amA delicious parody with all new lyrics for “Come Fly With Me,” following the much criticised US airport security “enhanced pat downs”.
(Via Boingboing.net)
November 17 2010
Three Pigs and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:29 am
Three Little Pigs reworked: A new, less likely to offend version of the popular story has made its way into US classrooms….
More after the jump…