10.20pm: The election result is panning out as the media has been predicting – a victory for National. Winston Peters is delivering his concession speech – beaten resoundingly by the young Simon Bridges (majority of 10,862 to national with 89.5% of the vote counted). Winston delivered a gracious speech congratulating Tauranga for voting in a […]
Bloody hell – what a bore watching John Key and Helen Clark talk about nothing. But, how fantastic listening to the commentators afterwards discuss the debate. Jenni McManus in particular stood out. Here are a few choice quotes from her. On Trust: I think particularly after last Friday night with his redundancy package I don’t […]
The people have spoken – Hell Pizza, and presumably Colenso BBDO realised they offended the wrong people. It now appears that the “Thriller” microsite has been withdrawn. As well as being insensitive to the family of Sir Ed, I saw on the news last night they have also offended a New Zealand family by offering […]
I managed to scrape a team together at work for Movember. This is a departure for Click Suite in that we normally celebrate May-stache – but while Movember is for a cause Maystache is just for fun (and a trophy). That’s me as the 2006 Maystache Winner. As I said to my (now) Mo Brothas […]
Hell Pizza, the maverick pizza company intent on shock and offence, have released a microsite http://www.backfromthedead.co.nz/ (brought to us by Colenso BBDO). Called Happy Helloween (I guess that’s a pun) it shows Sir Edmund Hillary, the Queen Mother, and (I think) Heath Ledger, dancing to a re-mix of something that sounds like Michael Jackson’s Thriller. […]
Many many people in Wellington will be as shocked as I was to hear of the death of Margo McAuley. She was a ‘celebrity’ real-estate sales woman who ran her own series of very tastefully designed and conceived billboards. And she was very very successful at selling real estate, which in turn helped to pay […]