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The FAT Website has had over a dozen bloggers writing about their lives around the world for over a decade. Topics cover everything from food, music, sports, travel and general musings on the minutiae of everyday life. The FAT Website blog first started in 1999 as a means for five high school friends to stay in touch as they independently traveled around the world.

Blogs From America – Time Square and Broadway

There’s something a little bit soul destroying about Time Square in Manhattan, a colourful and cheery hell hole that is famous for its gigantic advertising billboards and exists nowadays as a Mecca for tourists from around the world.  I was one of them!  I couldn’t resist the allure of standing there and having my photo taken beneath those bright lights.  ...

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Youtube Friday: The Next Xbox Is Unveiled

The successor to the Xbox 360 was unveiled this week from Microsoft.  Microsoft’s Dom Mattrick announced the Xbox One, which is expected to be released later this year.  In a slightly unexpected move, the conference focused less on games and more on the system’s ability to multitask and switch from gaming to tv without changing the channel.  This tv-watching capability ...

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Crif Dogs

For New York’s finest hot dogs, you must go to Crif Dogs in the East Village. We found out about the Crif Dogs when Anthony Bourdain talked them up on his travel show The Layover.  You might well wonder just how good you can get a hot dog to taste?  Well, Crif Dogs pushes that envelope pretty damn far.  These ...

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Youtube Friday: Eurovision 2013 – Euphoria – Loreen

It’s Eurovision this weekend!  I’ve stayed spoiler-free on the semis so that I can watch the delayed Australian coverage tonight.  But seeing the occasional excitable comment from Angela on Facebook has got me pumped for this year’s installment.  Let’s see if anything can top the singing, baking grannies or the Turkish manboat from last year. Have a good weekend everyone!

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The Art of Buying A Car

A long overdue milestone.  My first car!  Jen and I picked up a Hyundai i30 2013 Elite today.  I don’t know if that means anything to you but basically its a run-of-the-mill four door hatchback.  Just look how super sensible and nondescript it looks.  I foresee myself losing this car in a busy shopping center car park for sure.  Honestly ...

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Kenta Kobashi Retires

Edit: Now with pics of the actual retirement show! 50 years old cancer survivor.  Still doing perfect moonsaults off the top rope 0_o My favourite Japanese puro wrestler Kenta Kobashi retired this weekend.  Although I’m sad to see him hang up the boots, he was definitely in the twilight of his career and its a far better way to go ...

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Let’s Watch: Alfred Hitchcock Films

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder” One of the most interesting things you can do when you immerse yourself in the works of an artist in any medium is to the study the full body of their work and watch how it matures and develops.  Sure, there are some famous ...

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