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Erik Paartalu, who has appeared in 85 consecutive A-League and Asian Champions league matches for the Brisbane Roar, is leaving the club to play in the Chinese Super League. In the last two seasons he’s been an absolute beast in his defensive midfield role.  His composure and passing precision in the centre of the field meant that he was the ...

Los Angeles Flying into Los Angeles from Brisbane is basically embarking on the longest day of your life.  We flew out of Brisbane Airport at 10am, sat on the plane for 14 hours, then landed in LAX on the same day at 7am.  If you don’t get some sleep on the plane, you’ve got a seriously long day ahead of ...

Western Sydney Wanderers 1 Brisbane Roar 0 Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Brisbane Roar 0 Perth Glory 1 Adelaide United 0 Brisbane Roar 1 Brisbane Roar 2 Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne Heart 3 Brisbane Roar 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Brisbane Roar 0 The photo above was taken at the Caxton Street Pub from the January 2nd game against Wellington ...

Survivor:  Caramoan The 26th season of Survivor starts in February and the cast has now been fully revealed.  They’re doing a repeat of the Fans vs Favourites set up.  Well, officially, they are.  In actuality, we seem to be getting Fans vs Goats. ‘Goats’ in Survivor are the contestants that are so terrible/unlikable/mentally-unhinged that a smart, dominant player purposefully doesn’t ...

“Rift could be the closest we’ve come to Star Trek’s holodeck.” – Gamespy “The Oculus Rift changed my life. No, seriously. My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired. Virtual reality has long been the ultimate promise of technology ...

When it comes to tennis, I’ve been a pretty longtime casual fan of the sport.  I’ve never really followed it as closely as I do with my local football or rugby teams but if there’s a major open on the telly, I’ll usually tune in and check it out.  At the start of the New Year, I had a chance ...

Ever look on eBay or Amazon and feel the urge to spend hundreds of dollars on books, toys and knick knacks from your childhood?  It probably goes without saying that as a grown man who collects Lego, hoards video games and owns the complete sets of Tintin, Asterix, Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side that I am someone who ...

I started watching this last night and like your typical BBC nature documentary, it is jaw-droppingly beautiful and amazing in every way.  Check it out if you get the chance. Have a good weekend everyone!

My latest pick up from eBay is Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Dungeoneer.  I blogged before about picking up Out Of The Pit, a monster compendium from my childhood that I absolutely adored.  If Out Of The Pit contained all the creatures that we fought with dice on lazy Sunday afternoons as kids, Dungeoneer was the rulebook that held it ...