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There’s something a little bit soul destroying about Time Square in Manhattan, a colourful and cheery hell hole that is famous for its gigantic advertising billboards and exists nowadays as a Mecca for tourists from around the world.  I was one of them!  I couldn’t resist the allure of standing there and having my photo taken beneath those bright lights.  ...

The successor to the Xbox 360 was unveiled this week from Microsoft.  Microsoft’s Dom Mattrick announced the Xbox One, which is expected to be released later this year.  In a slightly unexpected move, the conference focused less on games and more on the system’s ability to multitask and switch from gaming to tv without changing the channel.  This tv-watching capability ...

For New York’s finest hot dogs, you must go to Crif Dogs in the East Village. We found out about the Crif Dogs when Anthony Bourdain talked them up on his travel show The Layover.  You might well wonder just how good you can get a hot dog to taste?  Well, Crif Dogs pushes that envelope pretty damn far.  These ...

New York Knicks vs Brooklyn Nets If you ever have a holiday in America and you have even a passing interest in sports, its worth getting along to a game at one of their four major sporting leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL).  They offer an opportunity to watch a sport that is typically played in few other countries and ...

It’s Eurovision this weekend!  I’ve stayed spoiler-free on the semis so that I can watch the delayed Australian coverage tonight.  But seeing the occasional excitable comment from Angela on Facebook has got me pumped for this year’s installment.  Let’s see if anything can top the singing, baking grannies or the Turkish manboat from last year. Have a good weekend everyone!

A long overdue milestone.  My first car!  Jen and I picked up a Hyundai i30 2013 Elite today.  I don’t know if that means anything to you but basically its a run-of-the-mill four door hatchback.  Just look how super sensible and nondescript it looks.  I foresee myself losing this car in a busy shopping center car park for sure.  Honestly ...

Survivor: Caramoan “Show me your teeth!” I don’t quite know how it came to this but here we are at the final tribal council and there is a contestant badgering Dawn, an elderly Mormon mother of six, to take out her false teeth so she can reveal her insecurities on national television as penance for voting someone off.  That’s reality ...

Performed by International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield. Such a badass dude. 🙂

Edit: Now with pics of the actual retirement show! 50 years old cancer survivor.  Still doing perfect moonsaults off the top rope 0_o My favourite Japanese puro wrestler Kenta Kobashi retired this weekend.  Although I’m sad to see him hang up the boots, he was definitely in the twilight of his career and its a far better way to go ...

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder” One of the most interesting things you can do when you immerse yourself in the works of an artist in any medium is to the study the full body of their work and watch how it matures and develops.  Sure, there are some famous ...