Here in Australia a popular late night drunk food is a trash plate called, depending on region, the halal snack pack or AB. It’s hot chips covered with doner kebab meat (most popular being a combination of chicken and lamb), slathered with barbecue and garlic sauce (at the very least, you can request additional…

Back in the mid 2000s Sue Perkins (host of Great British Bake Off v.1) and food critic Giles Coren did a series called The Supersizers Eat… where they ate the food of various periods of history for a week and wore funny costumes. The first season focused on British history from the Edwardian era forwards, the second…

True story: on one of the attempts at this movie that got closer to actually happening, the Top Dollar character was a woman and was going to be played by Andrea Riseborough. I THINK this was the version that Jason Momoa was attached to, and that plot wasn’t in any way closer to the original comic but was quite…

The movie, which I love, is in a few crucial ways so so different to the comic. I’d actually be very interested in seeing one that’s closer, which one of these tanked attempts was supposedly going to be. The treatment that Nick fucking Cave apparently wrote at some point? I want to read it!!

Lupita Nyong’o’s  expression behind Will Smith’s shoulder. 😂

Every professional production of West Side Story I’ve seen, it’s Anita’s show. I think “yes yes this is fine but why isn’t the show about Anita???”

There weren’t any in Australia at least that I was aware of at this time. We only got a couple of big Mexican style franchises relatively recently. Although funnily enough a few TGI Friday restaurants have since opened in Australia.

I’m dating how long I’ve been reading these sites for by this, but when I went to America (NYC specifically) there was one day I ate mozzarella sticks at TGI Fridays specifically because of that piece Caity Weaver did for Gawker.

I hope any scepticism about this story isn’t anything to do with people considering elderly women unlikely targets for sexual assault… 

Two cairn puzzles are all that remain between me and finally clearing two last areas at fucking last. I haven’t played in a while but will get round to Ragnarok soonish. I’ve also decided I’ll be seeing if they’ve patched out the “carry an oil jar to the cairn and use it to cheat the height” hack someone discovered a…

I like to get a choc top ice cream (what we call them here in Australia, not sure if they’re called different elsewhere) when I go to the movies. The perfect point to open and eat it when the ice cream is at optimum consistency is after the slide show commercials for local businesses and moving commercials for the big…

One of the (many) things that always gets me about the “decriminalising sex work enables trafficking” thing is that across the board significantly more human trafficking victims end up picking fruit, digging ditches, cleaning toilets, constructing buildings, etc, but the sex work abolitionists never seem to give a…

Always been a bit intrigued at how antifreeze is apparently delicious hence its use as a poison.

I’ve made a roast goose once and that was enough. I used the recipe in Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat that has a mashed potato stuffing. It tasted good but I’ve had better roast duck, the amount of fat you have to siphon off throughout is stressful, it’s annoying to carve and doesn’t serve as many people as it looks like…

I have been a long standing Vampire Chronicles fan and an apologist for some of her more crappy books too.

Fellow weirdo here. I hope they never drop the modern day stuff entirely. The in-game encyclopaedias where the modern day person compiling all the info for whoever’s in the Animus adds their own little annotations and comments are always delightful.

I think I’ve mentioned it before but in my family it’s my mum’s old school Aussie ice cream Christmas pudding. (Christmas Day is typically around 35 degrees C where I live.) You mix good quality ice cream (she mostly uses vanilla or toffee almond) with a bit of thick whipped cream to get a slightly softer consistency…

I witnessed an armed robbery at a petrol station and my statement was so devoid of useful detail it was grimly hilarious. We don’t usually go around thinking “Something could happen, I’d better take note of all details, events and people around me just in case!” 

Baby Grinch nothing, those of us old enough to remember (and a 30 year old isn’t to be fair) know Baby Yoda owes everything to Gizmo the Mogwai from the Gremlins movies.