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The other day, as I often do on the weekend, I betook myself to a café to write in my journal or pick at the short story I’m currently drafting.
The Glen had an appointment with the extrasupergood physios at the Gabba so while he was there getting prodded by the people who prod our Lions, I wandered over to the nub of road and shops that is the end of Logan Road and found a spot that wasn’t too full of people catching up over hollandaise and the heads of toddlers.
It’s called Bistro Bistrot.
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The Edge is opening in three and a half weeks and everything is hugely flat out with tons to do in not much time. Actually, it's been like that for a while. Like since I started in mid-November.
The launch party is going to be awesome. Seriously. But right now I'm kind of looking forward to it because I can't wait until it's over and we can start business as usual here.
If you want to hear from me about it, sign up for the enews because it and the other official Edge stuff is the only think I really have time to write just now!
1. Couples Facebook pages
2. Giving up gluten when you’re not intolerant/coeliac (not including giving it up to see if you are or not!)
3. Fundamentalism
4. The idea that watching TV doesn’t use your brain
5. Bed sheets with brand names on them
6. Spoilers on non-turbo charged four cylinder cars
7. Being proud of monolingualism
8. Slagging off abstract art because ‘I could do that too’. You don’t though, do you? Huh?
9. Single ply toilet paper
10. Office politics
When he first took the stage last Wednesday, Paul Barry seemed pretty sick of talking about his latest book, Who Wants to be a Billionaire. He was speaking at its Brisbane launch hosted by West End’s Avid Reader book shop.
It seemed reasonable, really. Who wouldn’t be sick of it after the media stormlet that centred on it over the last few weeks? (The whirlwind subsided once the book was released and people actually read it.)
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I'm just as surprised as the rest of you.
Let me know what you think and where it could be improved!
1. Personalised number plates
2. Chart music ring tones
3. Throwing the bouquet
4. Technophobia. Particularly dissing social networking websites because you feel pressured by them
5. Calling your mobile phone your ‘moby’
6. The assumption that there’s only one path to fulfilment/enlightenment/spiritualness
7. Teetotalling for non-medical reasons
8. Hen’s nights that involve veils or any kind of retarded headgear
9. Linguistic snobbery
10. Any form of evangelism, religious or no
The cabbie who drove me home after a late night at work the other day was a terrible, terrible driver.
