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The Green Party’s national office is on the corner of Courtenay Place and Cambridge Terrace, so when Monsieur Jackson has his film premieres we get ringside seats.

Your friendly frog is therefore blogging with the King Kong red carpet business unfolding beneath. Not so much a corridor of power as an avenue of enthusiasm.

While Miramar is the kitchen, the Embassy intersection is the front porch of Wellywood. But, as regular residents of these parts, feelings in this office were mixed when Weta’s Tripod landed outside their window a few weeks back. Some round here didn’t like having such a mechanistic thing in their line of sight, but I suspect they are from the wannabe Ent wing of the party. Personally, I reckon anything that mucks about with the psychogeography of the cityscape is a good thing. If everyday life had more texture maybe the masses wouldn’t feel so inclined towards celebrity worship.

Having made that off-hand elitist comment, I must say that my inate dubiousness about the cult of celebrity is in this case weighed against the general Buy Kiwi-Made-ness of this whole delightful phenomenom. IMHO, it’s time the world tried to live up to New Zealand standards, rather than vice versa :).

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