Long before the FAT website was endorsing political candidates like Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama, thirteen years ago we were singing protest songs in support of Anwar Ibrahim, a progressive opposition candidate in Malaysia who ran against Doctor Mahatir in Malaysia.  Anwar was jailed for trumped up sodomy charges to derail his campaign in 2000 and was freed four years ...

DISTILLERY Glenfiddich TYPE Blended Malt, casks ranging from 13-30 years ALCOHOL 47.6% REGION Speyside COLOR Golden honey NOSE Like the stuff dreams are made of (serious answer:  honey and pears mostly) PALATE Spicy fruit, salt, treacle and bitter chocolate. FINISH A very strong and distinguished flavour that lets you taste and savour its palate on your tongue.  It’s potency belies its ...

Black Mirror Black Mirror is a three part futuristic drama created by Charlie Brooker.  Each episode is thematically related in showing a rather bleak and morbid view of how the future could be if taken to an extreme length.  Some of the themes and motifs that are covered include 24 hour news media, reality television, social networking and video game ...

Brisbane Roar played Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium in Round 16.  Their first encounter since Brisbane thrashed Adelaide 7-1 at home.  But this was different.  We are no longer the high flying Brisbane team with an undefeated streak and Adelaide United have re-invented themselves under new coach John Kosmina.  In fact, they are now unbeaten in five games.  A rare ...

A few hours after the jubilation of snapping our five game losing streak and beating the Melbourne Victory 3-1 last week, a nagging thought entered into my head and presumably the heads of a few other supporters.  Did we actually improve or are the Melbourne Victory that bad? It turned into more than just a suspicion during Round 15, the ...

Cruisin' UAE

We don’t have prime ministers like this any more 🙁 Have a good weekend everyone.

Amanda Palmer played a free show at the Gallery of Modern Arts yesterday afternoon.  It’s about two minutes walk from where I live. There was a pretty good turn out.  I reckon about two hundred people?  It was kind of nice to just chill out on the lawn in front of the gallery and just lie around listening to someone ...

Achievement Unlocked – Friends with Songsak Yankleeb

The Round 14 clash between Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory took place at Suncorp Stadium on New Year’s Eve.  I had ribs before the game at the Caxton Hotel to celebrate the end of the New Year.  They were delicious. “Harry Kewell will score his first A-League goal (in open play) this game” I predicted to my wife and friends ...