www.theawkwardblog.com   Longtime TFW readers will remember Angela who used to blog on this site.  Good news~!  She’s back on the blogging bandwagon.  You can read her stuff at The Awkward Blog.  Unlike The FAT Website, it actually looks like a blog made this decade.  Nice big colourful images, a tidy, minimalist layout and plenty of instagram filtered images.  ...

A week ago, Labor was staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation in September.  Julia Gillard was somehow losing a popularity contest against conservative leader Tony Abbott who typically ranked at about a 35% approval rating.  Labor were looking at losing by ten points in two party preferred polls and that had been consistent for about six months. So last ...

On the 7th day of the 7th month, 77 years after the last British men’s champion and in his 7th Grand Slam final, Andy did it.

It’s hard to believe that just one year after he made the earnest, flag-waving ode to Americana that was Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock would follow it up with Shadow of a Doubt, a creepy paranoia-inducing thriller about an uncle who visits his sister’s family from out of town.  Sweet nature sixteen year old Charlie loves her uncle who has the same ...

Australia 21 British and Irish Lions 23 Australia 16 British and Irish Lions 15 Australia 16 British and Irish Lions 41 British and Irish Lions win the series 2-1 For the uninitiated, the concept of the British and Irish Lions Tour is that they are a team comprised of the best players from England, Wales, Ireland (and sometimes Scotland) who ...

It’s been a whole six months since we’ve been on holiday but thats all about to change in a fortnight.  Jen and I are off to Melbourne for my birthday.  As is our traditional, we’ll be treating ourselves to a nice dinner on our weekend away but the main activity we’ve got planned is attending the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo ...

I’m coming up to the end of my probation in my job and its going really well (I think).  I’ve just finished a big recruiting drive and I’ve now got a gun sales team together that can crush our targets for the second half of the year.  It’s an eclectic bunch including a fork lift operator, a Lithuanian business woman ...

Have a good weekend everyone!

If you ever wanted to find a renewed appreciation for just how good shows like Game of Thrones are, spend 45 minutes watching CBS’ pilot of Stephen King’s Under The Dome.  The concept of the show is unashamedly escapist sci-fi fare – a giant invisible dome suddenly materializes over a small American town.  Cut off from the outside world, they ...