It’s Wrestlemania Weekend on The FAT Website.  So here’s a wrestling-related Youtube clip to start your Friday.  It’s a fan-made song called Custom Made which is made up of promo clips from ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair.  This is a pretty great song to start your day with.  Charlie Sheen has nothing on Ric Flair in his hey day. So without ...

I first read about the KFC Double Down burger about a year ago on the Internet.  It gained a certain measure of noteriety for being one of those ridiculously excessive and unhealthy American fast food meals you read about and can’t quite believe exists in this day and age.  For the uninitiated, it is a bacon and fried cheese sandwich ...

One of my favourite aspects of trying out a restaurant’s degustation is the social experience that comes with the evening.  By my reckoning, if you’re trying out a multi-course tasting menu, you’re usually eating and drinking with your friends for about four or five hours.  Over the course of that time, everyone is going through a world class culinary journey ...

I just came back from a ridiculously great weekend trip down in Melbourne.  It was arranged through a sales competition at work which my brother-in-law Dom won by a handy margin.  The prize was an all expenses paid trip to Melbourne which included an invite to the McLaren F1 VIP party.  Dom very kindly agreed to take me along. I ...

This weekend I’m travelling to Melbourne for a bit of fun.  It’s an ‘F1 Weekend Getaway’.  So I thought I’d post a related video for the occasion. The weird thing is I’m not actually going to the Formula One race on Sunday.

I feel compelled to share this link with you all.  It’s a collection of unrelated black and white photos of people and animals from many decades ago.  I have no idea how this collection of images was compiled.  I just know that I found the pictures creepy, fascinating and very funny. The little fella on the right cracks me up.  ...

Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen tells the story of a decrepit old man in a nursing home named Jacob who can’t quite remember whether he is ninety or ninety three.  Although Jacob has many children and grandchildren, he feels lonely and abandoned.  Through Jacob’s narration we flash back to his life in prohibition-era America where, in the span of ...

Fight for your right

In the latest instalment of Visually Interesting Obscure Films, I present Cargo, a shoestring budget German-language Swiss produced sci-fi film.  It’s actually pretty darn good.  If you can find it screening anywhere in your local cinema, check it out! This is what a $4 million dollar budget in the Swiss film industry gets you: My review of Cargo can be ...

Emotional baggage