Great Job, Dick
Published 28 June 2009Did you get caught up in Friday’s Twitter flutter about Jeff Goldblum faux-dying? Right in the middle of us dealing with the loss of Michael and Farrah within hours of each other?
I saw a handful of tweets about Jeff’s demise – I even RT’d one – but the real icing on the cake was Richard Wilkins paying homage to Mr Goldblum’s outstanding career on Friday morning’s Today show. Complete with video montage. You can watch how it all unfolded on YouTube – Part 1 and Part 2.
The website claiming to have the scoop on Mr Goldblum is one of those sites that generates content based on the URL. The http://jeff.goldblum.media…. was what initially gave it away to me. Looking more closely I realised the site didn’t even have a date or timestamp.
But the real give away was the quote at the bottom of the page:
So in the end Dickie Wilkins had that other bloke from the Today show make the apology. Can you say “cringe-worthy”?
It’s one thing for mongs like me to initially believe the fake web site, but there’s a very big lesson in this for real* journalists: DON’T TRUST TEH UNKNOWN INTERWEBS FOR NEWS SCOOPS.
*Yes, I realise some wouldn’t classify Mr Wilkins as a “real” journalist, but he’s more of a journalist than I am.
Obama porn
Published 24 June 2009I’m an unashamed Obama girl. I see or hear Obama on the news and I swoon.
One of my favourite places to check out Obama is the official Whitehouse Flickr Photostream:
And this week this video was released which features John Hodgman more than Obama, but the Obama bits are full of awesome:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY
And all I can say is…
*swoon*
The Cupcake Factory – Drummoyne
Published 23 June 2009If you want cupcakes that are worth driving through torrential rain for, then The Cupcake Factory is your place.
Leigh and I have been drooling at the web site for months (literally) and we finally made the pilgrimage on a sopping wet Saturday to downtown Drummoyne for cupcake goodness.
The shopfront is small with barely enough room for 2 adults and 3 kids to huddle aroud the display window trying to decide which cupcakes to take home. There are at least 15 flavours to choose from and the shop is decorated in heaps of cupcake-themed goodies. They even have a cupcake bouquet made out of mini-cupcakes – really wished I’d snapped a photo of it so I can try to make something similar.
The service was friendly and very accommodating of wide-eyed cupcake fanatics! There really were SO MANY flavours to choose from: chocolate drizzle, malteser, strawberry, white chocolate, passionfruit, double chocolate, rocky road, vanilla, caramel, cookies and cream, jaffa and so many more than I can remember.
And look at the cupcake/icing ratio!
That is the most amazing cupcake/icing ratio I’ve seen outside of my kitchen.
Here’s the cookies and cream cupcake, one of the few that sat still long enough for me to photograph it:
Cupcakes are $3.00 to $4.00 and mini cupcakes are available for $1.00. You can get a box of a dozen mini cupakes for $12.00.
The cakes themselves taste home-made and the icing is the most amazing icing I have ever experienced in a retail cupcake. Most of the flavours are very rich – I could only eat half a cupcake at a time – but stunning. Presentation is spot-on, too!
The Cupcake Factory
Shop 5, 147 Victoria Road (Entrance on Edwin Street)
Drummoyne
Phone: (02) 9719 8737
Don’t forget to check out our list of Australian cupcake bakeries!
Grumbling in the direction of Marrickville Council
Published 22 June 2009I was driving down our street tonight looking for a parking spot – something that sucks as a general rule because we’ve chosen to live in a congested area of Sydney’s inner west. Tonight there are workmen blocking off empty parking spaces with witches hats. There were parking spots as far as the eye could see, but they were all blocked off by damned witches hats
Turns out they’re doing line marking. Because the kerb isn’t enough of an indicator on where to park, apparently.
I try to park in a spot anyway and get waved away by one of the overall-clad blokes and decide to suss out WTF is going on
Me: So where do I park if I actually live here?
Him: Yih, moite thir is sum spots up an’ ’round in (names street 3 blocks away)
Me: *blank stare*
Him: Yih, I fink they done a letterbox drop an’ that
Me: Well, they never made it to my letterbox
Him: Awww shoite!
Me: So this is Marrickville Council’s doing, yeah?
Him: Yih!!
Me: Well, at least I’ll know who to send the memo to if I get mugged!
We both chortled* and he continued blocking available parking spots with witches hats while I drove off to the next suburb to find somewhere to park my car.
Mental note: wear walking shoes in the morning.
* I can’t believe I actually said typed the word “chortle”. I am getting old.
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