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Monthly archives: November 2006
being a bimbo is deluxe
Bimbo Deluxe has a great business model. Make good quality simple pizza and sell it for $4 on Sunday – Thursday nights to packed rooms of 20 and 30 somethings who will spend plenty on drinks while socialising and being fabulous in the company of other fabulous people.…
vodka but no tears
Borsch Vodka and Tears on Chapel St in Windsor (south of High st) is one of my favourite bars in Melbourne, and the food is amazing. I have not been there for months and my latest visit was as enjoyable as all the previous ones. Try it, hopefully on a night when you don’t have to go to work the next day. BVT has been well reviewed and blogged about here and here.
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men’s reproductive choices
Men really need the equivalent of feminism to develop a framework for changing their social roles. Traditional male roles can no longer be taken for granted and, in many cases, simply don’t work. This is particularly true with regard to relationships, sexuality and parenting. More male voices should be contributing ideas to discussions of these topics.…
electric cars and dreams of the future
It’s strange what the future creates. As a child I dreamed of flying cars, electric cars, travelling in space and living in a dome underwater as possible future activities. The real world has given us mobile phones like Captain Kirk’s communicator and the internet, which I thought was just too fantastic a science-fiction concept to ever come true in my lifetime. Actually, we also did get electric cars, but GM then destroyed the beautiful technology they created.…
gallery visiting
I have recently been visiting the Helen Gory Galerie in Prahran. Helen exhibits the work of some exciting emerging artists, and the Thursday evening openings, like the night of the 23rd shown here, are very well attended.
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Le temps qui reste
On Tuesday 21st I attended a preview screening of Francois Ozon‘s Le temps qui reste (Time to leave) at the Kino. It’s about a young man faced with his unexpected forthcoming mortality due to cancer. It’s one of the most depresssing films I’ve seen. It’s even more depressing than Un couple parfait, which also starred Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (she is in Le temps qui reste and Ozon’s previous film 5×2). Despite this very poor sales pitch, it is definitely worth seeing.…
SOS
My new favourite restaurant is SOS. It’s vegaquarian and stylish. I particularly like the long mysterious corridor you walk down to enter the restaurant. The food is wonderful and great to share with someone delicious.…
farmers on parade
I was looking out the office window on Monday 20th and saw horses and riders crossing the bridge over the railway lines at the bottom of La Trobe St. It looked like a parade, and it was only later that I read it was a political protest. I totally missed the message!
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