I found it!!

In a masterful feat of googling with minimal information, I found the song Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova and the Frames closed their gig with- and no, I didn’t find a set list.  I remembered the song was by someone named Mick and that it had the word day in it.  Search string: Mick, days, lyric, [...]

Cloud Control are Awesome

I mean, you already knew that, but this video further cements their place in the Hall of Awesomeness.

Cloud Control: Buffalo Country from shoottheplayer.com [...]

Worldwide Blogger Bakeoff

You know I’ve been working on my cakes lately, but I’m dusting off the bread recipes, having just joined the Worldwide Blogger Bakeoff. (hat tip Joel)

It’s a really cool concept, and a great way to get to both bake AND raise some money for important aid projects.

There’ll be lots, lots more on this later, so [...]

The End of an Era

Farewell, Tadhg

Farewell to Tadhg. Fair play to you.

The end of an era. Oh, we use that phrase too readily. But today, with Tadhg Kennelly apparently due to announce his retirement from AFL football, an era of my life truly has ended.

I swore, after last night’s wank-fest, to put a moratorium on personal pretentions on this blog for a while, and try to focus more on politics. Parliament is sitting for the first time in 2009 next week, and it will be interesting to check out what is on the agenda.

But Kennelly’s retirement trumps any personal oaths, and so I shall, for the last time, tell the story of how I followed the career of Tadhg Kennelly.

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2009: Pretty damn good

Amazingly self-indulgent post right here, but I realised something tonight: 2009 has been AWESOME so far.  At least, it has been for me.  Less than 30 days in, and already I’ve:

visited, hiked along, took 288 photographs of, and ate the world’s best Gong Bao Ji Ding at, the Great Wall of China.  Once in a lifetime, [...]