Not long now till Frank Darabont’s adaptation of the excellent Walking Dead comic book series makes its way onto TV.  I like the look of the cast in the picture above.  I think they’ve done a pretty good job matching up the actor with the character they’re playing.  I hope it gets picked up for an expansive second season as ...

Universal appeal.

A Pianist, an African warlord and the guy from That 70s Show walk into a jungle...

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This World Cup has been an interesting ride.  There has been plenty of talking points and a lot of crap early on but then in the later stages of the tournament the good stuff started to shine through.  Germany and The Netherlands have been particularly entertaining and we all came to love Maradonna, that Paraguayian naked lady and Paul the ...

Stupid psychic octopus 🙁

AUSTRALIA’S richest man Frank Lowy is suing The Age newspaper in a defamation action relating to claims about the 2022 World Cup bid. Football Federation Australia, of which Mr Lowy is chairman and Ben Buckley the chief executive, commenced proceedings against the newspaper in the Supreme Court of New South Wales today. The Age – a Fairfax newspaper based in ...

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of the author Jose Saramago. Saramago was a Nobel prize-winning writer who was hugely popular in his home country of Portugal where it was reported that some 20,000 people attended his funeral (!) when he was buried last week.  He had a good innings, living to the ripe old age of ...

Either the World Cup Rainbow or Paul the Octopus is going to be wrong.

It’s been a little over twelve months since The FAT Website came back from its downtime in 2008 to 2009 when our hosting expired and the site was rebuilt from the ground up with a new design.  I thought since we’ve passed the one year anniversary of our return, it would be a good time to reflect on how the ...