For reasons unknown I am currently scrolling through a page of Oscar Wilde quotes. Expect one to show up on Facebook-Twitter-LiveJournal-WindowsLive (etc) some time soon.
I know it seems like a new, great, stylish and very Web 2.0 kinda thing to have an online brochure with pages you can turn and all, but please MQFF, for the love of Christ (or sequins, whichever you value more) can you just provide a PDF?
So my old workmate Michael is promising to shave his head for World's Greatest Shave if he gets $1000. This coming from the man who (in no doubt the campest Filipino accent ever) asked for a cordless hair straightener when he went camping once back in Broome, or so I've been told.
I've said this many times before, but I do love SBS's approach to films over Christmas. Rather than forcing yet more heartwarming, "I believe in the spirit of Christmas" sappy Americo-centric fare down our visual throats, you can always count on Australia's other public broadcaster to go all-out gonzo and provide us with decidedly un-Christmassy
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So today we decided to celebrate (why? Well, why NOT?), and go somewhere nice for dinner. Somewhere nice, not in the city, and where we've not yet been before. After learning that Hellenic Republic was fully booked, I caved and suggested we walk up Brunswick St. And so we did.
(Settlement happened Fri 9th Oct - 2 weeks overdue - been living here since I got back into the country last Tues, and mostly unpacked. For those who want to know the gory details.)
Seriously, if the thought of Yuletide cheer and all things Jesus leave you a little cold over Christmas, you could do much worse than watch SBS or its new equally fucked-up sister channel, SBS 2. Last night they repeated what is perhaps the most unChristmassy gay German Star Trek/Wars parody this side of ... well, somewhere, the hilarious
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