The Manchester United vs A-League All Stars game didn’t quite live up to its billing on the pitch.  Firstly, three of the A-League’s biggest marquee players (Del Piero, Heskey, Ono) all declined to play in the game.  Secondly, the rest of the best of Australian A-League talent was in Asia playing international matches against Japan and China for the Socceroos.  ...

For my birthday weekend, Jen bought me tickets to the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo in Australia which ran for 3 days in Melbourne.  It was the brainchild of Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, co-creators of the hugely popular online comic strip Penny Arcade, who wanted to create a version of E3 that was always accessible to the general public (E3 ...

I caught up with a bunch of friends on Sunday. For breakfast, I reunited with my ol’ university flatmate Kolitha.  He lives in Papa New Guinea nowadays but his work occasionally brings him through Brisbane.  I caught up with him and his special lady for breakfast.  It was a good revisiting old memories (I can’t believe uni was ten years ...

I’d buy one.

This would be cool as hell. Have a good weekend everyone!

Current holders: England (since 24 August 2009) Series Records: Australia – Won 31 series, Lost 30, Drawn 5 England – Won 30, Lost 31, Drawn 5 Fixtures: Australia in England 1st Test – Wed Jul 10 – Sun Jul 14; Trent Bridge, Nottingham 2nd Test – Thu Jul 18 – Mon Jul 22; Lords, London 3rd Test – Thu Aug ...

  www.theawkwardblog.com   Longtime TFW readers will remember Angela who used to blog on this site.  Good news~!  She’s back on the blogging bandwagon.  You can read her stuff at The Awkward Blog.  Unlike The FAT Website, it actually looks like a blog made this decade.  Nice big colourful images, a tidy, minimalist layout and plenty of instagram filtered images.  ...

A week ago, Labor was staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation in September.  Julia Gillard was somehow losing a popularity contest against conservative leader Tony Abbott who typically ranked at about a 35% approval rating.  Labor were looking at losing by ten points in two party preferred polls and that had been consistent for about six months. So last ...

On the 7th day of the 7th month, 77 years after the last British men’s champion and in his 7th Grand Slam final, Andy did it.

It’s hard to believe that just one year after he made the earnest, flag-waving ode to Americana that was Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock would follow it up with Shadow of a Doubt, a creepy paranoia-inducing thriller about an uncle who visits his sister’s family from out of town.  Sweet nature sixteen year old Charlie loves her uncle who has the same ...