I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse

Ok here’s the deal. You’re at a party in a townhouse attached to Teascapes Cafe at The Spot, Randwick. The time is 2.00am, the temperature outside is about 18 degrees. After a protracted negotiation, you have six reasonably attractive girls offering to kiss you anywhere you want above the waist, either together or one by one (if on the mouth, tongue not included, boo). Photographic evidence will be taken and provided to you for your posterity. In order to collect on this offer, you have to strip to your underwear (briefs not boxers), pop on some sneakers, and walk to the Ritz Cinemas, only 50 metres away. You must strike several poses in front of the Ritz’s front doors, get photographed, and then return home. You are drunk. Do you accept? Do you?

Last night, one fellow who shall not be named, with some um… gentle persuasion, accepted the challenge and was applauded and whistled at by several passers-by for his efforts. Unfortunately upon returning, overcome by a blood alcohol level in the permanent liver damage-range, he passed out cold before he could reap his rewards. Photographic evidence is now available to the highest bidder.

  2:21pm (GMT +10.00) tomorrow  •  Life  •  Tweet This  •  Comments (1)  • 

Time extension!

An extra hour to sleep in, or an excuse to stay up an extra hour later?

  11:25am (GMT +10.00) tomorrow  •  Life  •  Tweet This  •  Add a comment  • 

Apple’s 30th

Apple’s 30th anniversary is today. I wonder if they’re going to be releasing anything new. Ever since I figured out that the bus ride back from work is almost exactly 40 minutes, ie the length of a television episode, I’ve been thinking of getting a video iPod. However, the main thing that’s been making me hold off is that there have been rumours of a new large-screen video iPod with Bluetooth capability. Unfortunately, given that the usual rumour mills have been devoid of any mention of this recently, it doesn’t look like it’ll be here soon, let alone for Apple’s 30th birthday.

  2:29pm (GMT +11.00) tomorrow  •  Consumer Electronics  •  Tweet This  •  Add a comment  • 

Australian content on TV is not so Australian?

My friend Jonathan did a story broadcast on ABC Radio (fast forward to about midway in) about “a couple of Home and Away writers who got frustrated at the unrepresentative nature of their show and other Aus TV – ie all blond Anglos, so they are launching their own new TV series written by Sydney young people called Represent. The official launch is next week”.

Interestingly, Australian laws require television broadcasters to show a minimum quota of “Australian content”. The Government’s reasoning behind this is the preservation of “Australian culture” against incursions by foreign shows/culture, but I’ve never found Australian drama or TV in general very representative of Australia at all. If you look at the racial makeup of Australia, it’s not reflected on TV. But from the sounds of the story, it’s more about making Australia a tourist attraction (ie all foreign viewers want to see are blond surfies on beaches). US TV seems to do a slightly better job in this respect. “Represent” should be an interesting show, although of course if it gets picked up by a station, it will launching on a national broadcaster (ABC or SBS) and not a commercial one.

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