janeyo

Pop culture books my ticket. I usually get sent in a travel direction by some kind of pop culture pursuit or event - the mid-century...

...or is it just too busy messing around with its Facebook profile?...

Just an FYI for people (spotted on the the AirAsia website):...

Love and thoughts to you at this awful, awful time.

Qantas. They give good snack.

When you automatically wince and squint in fear of those surprisingly tough drink lids giving way and launching the contents at you at point-blank range.

Pine-Lime Splice Happiness on a stick

And I bet you had actual elbow room to eat instead of that kind of collapsed-foal thing you've got to do where you can only bend from the wrists down and you have to kind of rest your rock-hard bread roll on your chest and stab at it with a plastic knife to get the mock butter in.

Don't know if it's still running but Duckie at the Vauxhaul Tavern (cowering under an underpass) is one of my favourite London club nights - though hardly a club, more a shabby night out with a Lily Savage look-a-like...

I'm liking the resurgence of Billboard in the city. Small and basementy and the sight lines are pretty good.

What about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? Probably aren't going to blow the history books apart but worth a mention for the fuzzy guitar, right?

I love Jon Stewart,what kind of schizophrenic 'breakfast' is this?! It's like it's trying to be the popular breakfast kid or something... do you wash it down with a Bud?

Coffee - the only reason to get up in the morning

- and therefore the only reasonable place to go for the morning brew is Batch on Carlisle St in East St Kilda. Eye-wateringly strong, majestic black coffee. So good it even got a mention in a New York Times article researching why coffee was so good here in Australia.