To celebrate getting a job this week, I splurged on the weekend and picked up Firefly, The Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection and Bioshock Infinite.  The Hitchcock set includes:  Saboteur, Shadow of Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot.  14 movies! You ...

This week, I finally snapped an eight year long duck.  Someone offered me a job!  It had been eight years since the last time I was successful in a job interview. In 2004, I landed a job as a sales rep when I first moved to Brisbane.  I remember feeling pretty good at the time.  It was the second job ...

Adelaide United 1 Brisbane Roar 2 Perth Glory 1 Melbourne Victory 2 The Red Menace It was a nervy final five minutes but Brisbane Roar have advanced to a semi final meeting with Western Sydney Wanderers after dispatching Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium.  The Roar went up 2-0 in the first half and looked comfortable for most of the game ...

Wrestlemania 29 Wrestlemania 29 won’t likely be remembered as one of the all time great Wrestlemanias.  It doesn’t come close to the best – VIII, X, XVII, XIV – but instead it fell somewhere in the middle.  The impressive Met Life set design, sellout crowd and excellent CM Punk vs Undertaker match were all big positives but some of the ...

Wrestlemania 29 is taking place tonight, emanating from the outdoor Metlife Stadium in New Jersey where a ridiculously large crowd of 80,000 people are expected for a show featuring a whole bunch of old dudes who have been wrestling forever. The card is a mixed bag.  It features a lot of marquee matches but all of them are repeats.  The ...

For any regular reader of The FAT Website, one of my identifiable traits is that I blog a lot.  With few breaks, I’ve been doing it for the better part of twelve years now.  For even more people who know me in my day-to-day life offline, an even stronger identifiable trait is that I love film.  Both my love of ...

R.I.P  Roger Ebert.

You want fries with that?

The West Wing Season Four The fourth season of The West Wing sees the show continue on as strong as ever.  It is however, notable for bringing a close to the Aaron Sorkin years on the show as he left at the end of the season due to disagreements with Warner Bros.  The show also loses Rob Lowe midway through ...

Take a bow, Lara