Posts Tagged ‘melbourne’

Donny Shoppo.

Yes I am one of those suburban types who likes to pour scorn on anything beyond the perimeter of my usual traversal – i.e. anything much beyond, say, Camberwell in the East, Yarraville in the West, Brunswick in the North and Brighton in the South. And that’s being generous. But I had heard whispers that [...]

Breakfast in Melbourne

I don’t think I’ve ever plugged a website on my blog before, but hell, why not start. Breakfast Out is the missing guide to breakfast in Melbourne, and offers surprisingly comprehensive coverage of Melbourne’s multifarious hip & groovy egg-and-bacon houses.
Yesterday I went to cool Cibi nestled in a completely non-descript, signless building in the [...]

Melbourne City Council Mayoral Elections – how the candidates would “vote”

Candidates in the mayoral elections publish charts of how they’d like you to distribute their preferences, and these charts make interesting reading. I wondered – who’s the most popular candidate among the candidates?
Totalling up the preference votes democratically, you get this:
52 Singer
56 Fowles
56 Ng
58 Bandt
63 McMullin
65 Morgan
67 Crawford
69 Columb
72 Doyle
80 Roberts
88 Toscano
Singer is the most popular among the candidates, Toscano, a “radical activist(s) who have over [...]

An imperfect storm

SO much bullsh in the ether about how we get around at the mo in this town, Melbourne. The car lobby’s whining about the cost of petrol (only going to get worse, suckers) while the Labor Party in Victoria is split over Rod Eddington’s proposals for a cross-city tunnel (costing billions of dollars and only [...]

Spaghetti Tree.

There is only one thing worse than muzak. It’s muzak reinterpreted LIVE by someone for whom ‘talent’ and ‘ability’ are still goals. Played loudly. While people are eating.