I recently finished reading a copy of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces on a recommendation from Something Awful’s Book Barn. It tells the story of an obese and slothful middle aged man named Ignatius J. Reilly who lives with his mother in New Orleans and is forced to find work for the first time in his life when ...

I’ve alluded to it before in the last two years but now I’m seriously considering doing the unthinkable: I think I might buy a FIFA game instead of Pro Evo this year. It’s not a decision to be made lightly. But first, a history lesson:  Football is an important part of the fabric that makes up some of the friendships ...

Well this was a fucking horrible thing to wake up to this morning  🙁 MISAWA PASSES AWAY AFTER BACKDROP IN HIROSHIMA MATCH Mitsuharu Misawa, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, was declared dead at 10:10 p.m. Saturday night at a hospital in Hiroshima after being dropped on his head in a tag team title match. Misawa would have ...

So I booked in my Facebook username today and went with a rather predictable “facebook.com/edo.inoue”.  I’m still not sure I understand the point of having a Facebook Username but there was a lot I didn’t understand about Facebook when Pat first recommended it to me two years ago. I went out drinking last night with a friend from work in ...

Back to the Future.

I like to blog about life in Australia.  It’s got plenty of charming idiosynchracies, colourful characters in the public eye and very brown geographical features.  I like blogging about Brunei and my memories of growing up there.  I don’t blog very often about Britain.  I really should though.  I have family there, many of the TFW bloggers call it their ...

A review of the long-delayed reboot of the Star Trek franchise from JJ Abrams

I flew back to Brisbane for the Queens Birthday long weekend.  Not only was it a chance to spend some time with Jen, we were both also invited to a trip to northern New South Wales with some friends for a camping trip.  Jen hadn’t gone camping for about six years and I flat out could not remember the last ...

When I was six years old, my brother Stu got a Commodore 64 for his birthday.  We used to load games on a cassette tape that could take up to 999 seconds to load. Then, when it finished loading (if it didn’t crash) we were treated to this: I was enthralled and it started a life long love of video ...

I’m still in the process of uploading the old archives onto the site.  I do a little bit every night.  I’m probably only a third of the way there.  While its a bit of an effort, its been highly entertaining reading the old entries from everyone.  I’m surprised how different we seem even five years ago, let alone the original ...