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

Jen and I recently went to check out the Australian stage production of Wicked – The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz.  The Australian adaptation of the enourmously popular Broadway musical boasts an impressive cast of young local talent, television icon Bert Newton performing as The Wizard and big budget production values.  Just how big is the budget?  The ...

NB: After blogging about a 30 round A-League season over the past seven months, I’m feeling a little bit drained writing about The SportsWebsite all the time so I’ve decided to cut back on the Super 15 blog to just the Reds’ home games. The Queensland Reds were a revelation in the 2010 Super 14 after coach Ewen McKenzie re-invented ...