Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2007
Every year around June I spend virtually an entire weekend at the Powerhouse watching queer films. This year I saw four in one day and that is pretty lightweight compared to what I’ve done in years before. When you go to a film festival you go through a whole range of experiences… excitement at the [...]
A meal at Urbane in Brisbane
Almost a year ago I watched Anthony Bourdain ooh and aah his way through a meal at the French Laundry which is generally agreed to be the best restaurant in America. Chef Thomas Keller even made Anthony a special tobacco and coffee infused custard with foie gras because he knew of Anthony’s vices. Watching the [...]
Songkran Festival 2007
Went to the Songkran Festival in Forestdale yesterday. It was sold to me as a Thai Food Festival so it wasn’t hard to get me there, but it turned out to be much more than that. It was a pretty hot day and we were stupid enough to not think about hats so our time [...]
New work location
I’ve been on an Oracle course all this week which meant that I had to go to work down the other end of town. The location of the training is at the Fortitude Valley end of Queen Street which means I’m in the Creek St part of town. This area is all finance and suits [...]
tomber le chariot
To save you a search on babel fish “tomber le chariot” means falling off the wagon in french and “tomber le chariot” is what I did last night. The Tony Ferguson diet has been working well for me so far (5.5 kilos in 4 weeks) but last night I felt like a treat. A quick [...]
Nike Air Force One Party
I was fortunate enough on Tuesday night to snaffle an invitation to the Nike Air Force One Party at General Pants in the Queen St Mall. It wasn’t hard to get, I just sent off an email to Nike. I wasn’t quite sure of the starting time so I rocked up around 6.45, surprised to [...]
Stone in Brisbane
I went out for lunch on Saturday to Stone on Grey Street in Southbank – located in the Saville Hotel. It was picked primarily because it offers discounts in the entertainment book and because it’s menu looked yum. It also helped that they had free parking at Southbank as well even if we had to [...]
The view from here is great
It was hard to not be distracted by the view at work yesterday when there are guys doing motocross jumps at Southbank in Brisbane. Luckily I grabbed my always ready camera and took some footage of their stunts. They saved the best till last with a 360 jump which I have placed on youtube for [...]
First day in Brisbane Square
I moved in to my new office today in Brisbane Square and it’s fantastic. The view is a little distracting, I’ll admit. We’ve taken to yelling “Train” when we see one, but since the citytrain goes by pretty often we’ve amended it to “Special Train” when there is something different. I decided to sit facing [...]
Kiss the traffic goodbye
After the gridlock issues yesterday, of course today’s conversation was about traffic. As part of that discussion Chris brought up an incident he’d had recently while talking to someone involved in the design of the busways. Chris queried why the busways were so lacking in parking spaces. The response was that they wanted to promote [...]
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