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The Super Bowl this year had a much maligned musical performance from the Black Eyed Peas that had a lot of people yearning for some of the performers from yesteryear.  So for this week’s Youtube Friday post, I thought I’d put up one of my personal favourites:  Michael Jackson at the 1993 Super Bowl Half-time Show. Have a good weekend ...

I didn’t actually get to see this game because I was down in Sydney for the Conference.  The game was supposed to be played at Dairy Farmer Stadium but because of Cyclone Yasi, it had to be moved to Skilled Park.  This game attracted a record low attendance which is probably what you get when the top team plays the ...

This might be a good time to talk about my new job. I alluded to having a new job earlier in the year but haven’t really had a chance to write about it.  Partly because on my second day in the new role, the Queensland Floods happened and I didn’t go to work for nearly two weeks, so there wasn’t ...

A montage of Japanese MMA fighter Genki Sudo entrances to his fights. My favourite is the mechanical KFC bucket hat that shoots steam out the top. Have a good weekend, everyone.

Man, I don’t know what the deal is with the weather in Australia at the moment but I think this diagram summed up the situation in January quite succinctly. And just as Queensland started its recovery from the Floods, now we’ve got this stupidly large cyclone coming our way.  Seriously, it’s like the size of several European countries.  Just look ...

For a football tournament that I went into with some pretty low expectations, I derived a surprising amount of entertainment from the 2011 Asian Cup. Firstly, both Japan and Australia totally cleaned up the rest of Asia, piling on big scores and playing entertaining games throughout the tournament.  Japan played no less than four games where a last minute goal ...

Brisbane played their second home game at Skilled Park on Saturday against the Melbourne Heart.  Having tied the 22 game undefeated streak of Apia-Leichardt from 1987, this would be the game to break the record.  For Melbourne Heart, they currently sit in 6th position in the A-League standings and would be desperate to secure some points to ensure they qualify ...

Robot is a Tamil sci-fi film starring the smoking hot Indian actress Aishwariya Rai and some guy I’ve never heard of.  Released in cinemas in October 2010, it is apparently Bollywood’s most expensive film ever made.  From what I can tell, it is also probably the best action film made in Bollywood too. Just look at this clip (which is ...

On a two week break that was imposed by the recent floods in Queensland, the Brisbane Roar got their season back underway at Skilled Park in the Gold Coast on Australia Day.  The Roar’s usual homeground, Suncorp Stadium, will still be in recovery mode until possibly the final game of the season. It was my first trip to Skilled Park.  ...

You wouldn’t have expected it a couple of weeks ago but it was bone dry and absolutely scorching weather for Big Day Out 2011 in Queensland. This was the 19th year that Big Day Out has been held and it continued the festival’s trend in recent years of really serving up a seriously eclectic mix of artists.  The headlining acts ...