I�m in Barcelona.
Top tip - stay the hell away from Mickey�s Tapas Bar on La Rambla. The paella is crap and they charge 21 Euro for a pitcher of sangria, which in the case of Mickey�s is some red goon and fanta with a few bits of orange.
(One highlight of La Rambla was Zareen�s dancing upstaging the Michael Jackson impersonator who, coincidentally, was a Spaniard considerably darker than MJ himself and stubbornly refused to molest the nearby kids.)
Instead, go to Marcelino�s on Muntaner street. The grub is good and cheap and glasses of wine go at 90 euro cents (about $1.60), as do coffees. The rabbit with garlic sauce is a Catalan favourite, apparently.
Paris isn�t as plagued with dog turd as rumoured, and it a swell town. Hanging with my ex-housemate Joey was rockin, and we saw some terrific jazz. The picasso museum is hot stuff, as is the museum di carnival, which has a lot of revolutionary and napoleonic era art and artifacts. French people are exceedingly friendly by the way. And you can smoke in hospitals.
Tokyo is crazy. Interestingly you can occassionally detect traces of a proud and noble culture under all the Hello Kitty, neon and school girl mania. It was obviously this proud and noble culture that inspired me to get rotten drunk at Gaspanic - a 10 square metre underground hip hop club populated with African American ex-pats and local girls in tasteful costumes.
I will write a full report later.
Props to Pakistan for flogging England by an innings and 100 runs even without �that man�Afridi.
Highlight - double century to no namer Mohammed Yousef (WHO?-sef).
fancy dave says:
While you're in town, check out this joint:
http://sebastiangroup.com/ing_rest_egipte.htm
Egyptian-themed, top-quality, try the ceviche (citrus-"cooked" seafood entree) and their version of the very worthy abovementioned garlic rabbit. I ate both, and it took me a while to stop going on and on about it. And now, another opportunity arises!
fancy dave says:
Actually, they call the seafood dish "Esqueixada de bacalao".
Catalan freaks!
Barney says:
You? Go on and on about food, Fanc? I find that hard to believe.
Giovanni says:
Thanks FDB. We´re in town for another night and arvo so we will endeavour to check it out for dinner tonight.
Will go into la sagrada familia in about 5 minutes. Gaudi started work on it in 1882 and it will be finished in a mere 20 years from now. Obviously not a tilt-up job. The CFMEU go-slow is definitely working, imagine how much wages on-site have increased in the last 123 years!
And what about Inzamam ´Man of the series´ Ul-Haq with scores of 53, 74, 109, 100 and 97 against England?
K to the L says:
Hey, speaking of Fancy Dave, has anyone been watching [i]That 70s Show[/i] this week?
Why didn't anyone tell me that Fancy was guest starring?
[img]http://www.djkl.com/news/uploads/fancyhyde.jpg[/img]
Barney says:
My American mate Tib (aka Adam) who lived over here for 6 months a couple of years ago is this dude's doppleganger. Absolute spitting image. So much so that when he went back to the US after 6 months of me forcing him to grow a fro to compensate for my own inability to do so (this was prior to it becoming a punchline with the success of the immortal Guy Sebastian lyric "you got your oh; I got my fro") he was at a baseball game and they put the tv/big screen camera on him and announced to the entire arena that whatever this guy's name is was sitting in the crowd.
Tib waved and smiled and was later ushered with 3 friends to the VIP section where they enjoyed free booze and female attention for the rest of the game.
That's America for ya…
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Uninteresting Tidbit - that guy is real life brothers with the eldest brother in Malcolm In The Middle…
Whatever happened to that?
theHirsch says:
My guess is he went the way of Macaulay Culkin - ugly, unemployed, and spending too much time having "just friends" massages with Michael Jackson…
b. perms says:
Another tidbit - anyone see Dave McCormack on Home and Away last night? Singing a Custard song ("keep on looking for that loving feeling") with some Home and Away cast member playing bass? Trippy!
KizzL says:
Malcolm returns to 9 this saturday night at 6.30pm (I think). Nice programming, biatches.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Hey Geeves - you'll like this…
[url=http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17505472-38259,00.html]Cricket Balls Dont Kill People…BRETT LEE KILLS PEOPLES![/url]
I'll see if I can get some tips from Mel Butler for you re: Barca, as I am lead to believe she pretty much lived the life of a fully-fledged vampire whilst residing in Spain, ala The Lost Boys, but with chemmies instead of worm-noodles
Giovanni says:
Maggots Michael, you,re eating maggots.
I can,t find an apostrophe on this French keyboard.
Now in Montpellerin. Very nice.
As for the vampire life, it makes sense. Lunch at 2 or 3 pm, dinner after ten, drinks at midnight and dancing until dawn.
Loitered in Bar Marsella, former watering hole of Hemingway. Decor hasn,t changed since For Whom The Bell Tolls, the book, not the 1984 Metallica classic, but the staff are even more bitter than the absinthe.
B-Diddy DubSac says:
Given this is thread is delightfully sponsored by Geeves Inc and encapsulates all things Geeves (sans the Bearded Dude from 70s Show..), I thought it would be appropriate to bitch about the cricket here…
[url=http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17627250-23209,00.html]Apparently, Punter fucked up![/url]
WHATEVERS!!!
I mean, you won't find a greater denegrator of Punter's captaincy than myself, but fair suck of the sav! The ONLY aspect I would hang on Punter is that he wasn't creative enough (never is!) with his choice of bowling attack - but shit me, 127 overs SHOULD be enough for the 2/3 best bowlers IN THE WORLD to rattle some amatuer Kansmen!
All this bullshit about declaring too late - where the fuck were those calls yesterday, right after Hodge's double??? I vividly recall exactly NO-ONE mentioning it then - but hindsight is awesome if you're a commentator! They were already 2 down with a bunch of rookies to come, and the only fault in their plan was that they weren't creative enough to bowl the fuckers out!
The Defence For Punter Rests…
The Attack of Punter Resumes…
He reminds me of the John Howard of cricket - got in when the going was WAY good, and just floats around without imposing any presence on the team unit. This is STILL Steve Waugh's team!
I mean, could the guy LOOK like any more of an idiot when he comes out backing every single f'n player under the sun ("Oh yeah, Clarke is good, just give him more time"…next day when Hodge is picked "Oh yeah, Hodge is good and Im sure we can play both of them") If Punter actually chose the Aussie team there would be 25 to choose from on Day 1! The selectors treat him like a goddam baby, and he comes off looking like a gorilla-haired forearm crosseyed puppet!
No doubt the man can bat, but he's too used to having McGarth/ Warne Best Evers to fall back on, and is just coasting on past glories… obviously his Taswegian blood negates him from exuding any more creativity, so I think its timehe appointed Warner as his Acting Thinker! That - or bring back Steve as 12th man/ skipper!
$BDW$
KizzL says:
I hears ya, BDW.
Now Phil Jaques is getting a go too.
Surely Symonds doesn't deserve his spot in the Test team at this point in time?
Discuss.
Giovanni says:
Achtung!
McGrath's second innings figures were interesting. None for about 39 off 24 overs, I think. The thing about McGrath these days is that a decent batsman can protect his wicket against him, it's trying to score that usually brings people undone.
While I think McGrath is still The One, he has, of late, had trouble dismissing good batsman who - once set - refuse to take any risks whatsoever.
Symonds must be axed. While his presence in the One Day side is essential, and I think he is cool, his presence in the Test side is really an insult to the memory of any actual all rounders who have ever played for Australia.