I was perusing my old blogs and found that my Dangermouse - the coolest cartoon hero ever  blog has received 2115 views, this greatly suprised me - though it shouldn't have, Danger Mouse really is the coolest cartoon EVER in the history of the universe and he has some stiff competition.

This was followed by my Trans Tasman Rivalry blog with 1901 views and Kiwi in Korea 6 - Busan with 1591 views.   Pete Sweet (The Mighty Boosh) and RIP Beryl Cook trailed with 796 and 710 views respectively.

What is your most viewed blog and why do you think it is? 

Clearly if Danger Mouse was Antipodean he would be a Kiwi....

Hope you all had (or are having ) a great Halloween

I bought some lollies but only a couple of kids came by, if I had known it was only going to be those two I would have been more generous in my handouts.  Halloween is not traditional here so the neighbourhood is not filled with scores of kids dressed up.  Often parents take kids to organised events as they are perceived (perhaps rightly) as being safer.   So if anybody has a hankering for Fruit bursts or Mackintosh lollies come on over to my place....

I hand out these because they are wrapped, but what is your favourite treat/lolly/sweet/candy/confectionary (whatever the heck you want to call it)

Woo hoo the rugby was on last night (in Tokyo), I didn't stay up to watch it coz I knew the All Blacks (that's the NZ rugby team for the odd person on the planet who may not know) would beat Australia easily *cough cough*.  We did win  (the final test for the Bledisloe cup) and I am taking this moment to gloat unashamadly over the Aussies on here  (it's because they usually beat us at cricket which is a far superior game).

I recently found Crow Zero II on http://www.asizia.com/movie/42/J-Movie-:-Crows-Zero-II-2009.html and it reminded me of how cute Kiritani Kenta is (the mustouched gent in my profile pic).  and Tokio is my fav character.   Here is a couple of other shots (the stache is for a character he played in Rookies, where he looks kinda ridiculous but I don't care, I think he is lufferly - his interests are traveling, drumming and shamanism *sigh*).  

Hi folks

sorry I have been awol for so long, being a AnDholic was interfering with my job searching and I thought I would not come on until I had found full time work, well I still haven't found full time work but I am working part time in a bookshop - which I totally love

I hope everyone has been well, I have missed you all very much!  I don't have much other news - my daughter is learning the accordian, I am learning the bodhran (Irish drum) and penny whistle.  I tell ya, it's the height of cool in my house.  I have acquired another teen who now lives here (as you do) and work on my property is going very very slowly (it's a finance thing).  All is good though and I hope you are all well too.

At the moment it is the Nelson Arts Festival so here is a couple of photos of the Mask parade that opens it (done mainly by local schools).

The Topp Twins are a New Zealand much loved musical - comedy duo, they have been round for a long time, well before Flight of the Conchords.   Jools and Lynda Topp have been performing for NZ audiences for 30 years, both on the road and on the telly.   Now they have put out a film/documentary Topp Twins; Untouchable Girls and I'm off to see it tonight.  I'm really excited.

This from a recent review: (the brackets are my explanations)

Paul Horan, a well respected comedy writer, says in the documentary that “On paper, they (the Topp Twins) shouldn’t work. On paper, they should be commercial death. But they totally deliver to the audience. Time and time again”. And deliver they do. Through interviews with both prominent New Zealanders such as John Clarke (classic NZ comedian now based in Australia) and the colourful characters conceived by the Topp Twins, the documentary explores the many displays of political anarchism that the Topp Twins have been involved with over the past few decades. From Bastion Point (Indigenous land rights) to Nuclear Free New Zealand and the Springbok tour (apartheid vs rugby) of 1981 to the Homosexual Law Reforms of the late 80s, the Topp Twins have been an integral part of bringing all these issues into the New Zealand publics’ consciousness.  You would expect that a documentary that covers so many controversial periods in New Zealand’s recent history would be quite arduous to watch, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSDaOscM_I

Anyone remember Roger Fan blogging about Paul Potts on Britain's Got Talent, well although it brought a smile to my face it did not bring tears to my eyes.  This however....

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

it appears all of the clips of youtube of this have had embedding disabled by request, I can recommend following the link though