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Sydney City to Surf 2015

Yes I am running this one. Mutual online support sounds like a good plan.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 12:02 AM on June 15, 2015

Taff mate I'm good. Making trouble. Running training. I am after the goal of 1hr 14 minutes which is what I did last time. I'm Fiasco and this is my story.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 3:06 AM on June 15, 2015

Smashed it like a gong on early 1990s Hey Hey. 1:05:38. Beautiful day for it too.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:28 PM on August 8, 2015

Haha yeah the medal really is shit isn't it
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 1:25 AM on August 9, 2015

Malibu Stacey visits her Sydney Dream House

Sorry kids, can't make it at all. But have a good tapas.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 2:18 PM on January 9, 2013

melbourneites visit the big smoke

Can't make it sorry kids.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 3:17 AM on November 28, 2012

Sydney meetup?

OK, unless there's anything I've forgotten, I'm in. Can I suggest we don't go upstairs to the rooftop bar? Or go up, have a look at the nice view, then get back down into the warmth?
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 12:11 AM on July 28, 2011

That +googlecal is a nice addition, I've never noticed it. Cool.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 12:15 AM on July 28, 2011

Stanmore is barely the Inner West! Tccchk. These days Birrong/Regents Park is barely the Inner West. If the Domain editors had their way, the Eastern Suburbs would stop at about Strathfield, the Inner West would extend to Bonnyrigg and you'd start the Northern Beaches one stop after Milson's Point. You heard it here first: Airds/Minto/Ingleburn is the new Paddington. Mind you, give or take a hundred years of sea level rise and we'll be forcing the matter.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 11:27 PM on July 31, 2011

Man you need to branch out from the barely half-way to Petersham Parramatta Road buses and onto the Bankstown and East Hills lines. Live a little. (For a little while the last Sydney IRL was mapped somewhere in a suburban pub in Cabramatta, which would have made for some interesting navigation. Or some good pork rolls.)
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 11:39 PM on July 31, 2011

Jesus, don't you know *anything*? Orders at Stanmore Maccas are made only by combining the forces of all your cousins combined, making, with the power of a Honda Civic, the Fully Sick Subwoofer. Or maybe even the Stanmore McDonald's carpark has gentrified. I'm scared. hold me, Habib
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 7:04 AM on August 1, 2011

Web-goddess, I may have to disagree with you. The only thing worse than the tedious original song is that pompous wanker John Bell pompously pompoussing like a pompous, pompous... Well, I watched the video, and cringed, until he came on at which point I just burst out laughing. From tragedy to comedy, a rocket from the crap. Leslie Neilsen couldn't have done it better. Mind you, Angus and Julia Stone are appropriate artists to cover Nick Cave: middle-class self-absorbed urgers pretending they… [more]
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:09 PM on August 1, 2011

I said it was worst, I also said it was hilariously worst. It's Worst of Perth funny. I've got a shirt with lyrics from The Ship Song on it. Somebody tried to buy it off my back at Homebake. Hah. My theories about the venally commercial motivations of Nick Cave fans are reconfirming themselves. See a Bad Seeds collection in the CD case, find Robert Kiyosaki and John Gray self-help books on the shelf.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:24 PM on August 1, 2011

I'm not going to gainsay your hard-earned and well-displayed music credibility, LiB. I'm just saying Nick Cave is the choice of the Australian middle classes who want easily digestible music for social climbing purposes. He writes his music unthreatening, easily intelligible, and friendly, even when he's trying to be deep and soulful. Hell even when he was doing hard-rock back in the 80s, you could understand all the words and sing along. He is the Wiggles of Australian rock 'n' roll. John… [more]
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:47 PM on August 1, 2011

Don't leave out Ben Lee or Bernard Fanning or the Whitlams, when you go up with your roll of $2 coins, web-goddess. As a middle-class white bloke with no aesthetic taste, I wouldn't want to feel threatened or challenged.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:02 PM on August 1, 2011

He writes about rape and murder and necrophillia and obsession So does Shakespeare. So does Patricia Cornwell.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:06 PM on August 1, 2011

Well, since we're doing great lines of Australian pop, I nominate this song (starting about 1'30") as having a few crackers.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:19 PM on August 1, 2011

Taff: train to Circular Quay station on the Inner West or Bankstown line, then about five minutes' walk uphill. Don't bother with a bus at that time of day, you'd be better off walking down George St.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:29 PM on August 3, 2011

Incidentally, if anyone's looking for me, I'll be the one in skinny jeans, an old jacket, lank shoulder-length hair, heroin- and cigarette-scarred sunken eyes, droopy moustache, frown, and a bass that sounds like it's coming less from my mouth than from somewhere around my navel.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:39 PM on August 3, 2011

blue chords A-D-G?
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 9:13 PM on August 3, 2011

Good to meet everyone! And I look forward to qwip's pictures to see how awkward I look next to the world's cutest not-quite-toddler. AmbroseChapel, try a search under "Devonshire Street Tunnel" on pictureaustralia.org. It's a brilliant collaboration between libraries and archives--I could spend all day on there if I didn't have to work. For bonus eye-opening material, do an image search under location "National Archives of Australia" and image creator "ASIO".… [more]
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 4:51 PM on August 4, 2011

Matt, and remember to steer clear of "prominent Griffith businessmen" & "colourful Sydney racing identities" Matt, avoid also "major urban developer of the South Coast" and "nightclub entrepreneur". If only we could make those export, not domestic, industries.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:15 PM on August 4, 2011

Oh, OK. Since we're doing trad. folk songs from the US, here's Stagger Lee.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 6:21 AM on August 5, 2011

Nice pictures, qwip, and thanks.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 11:43 PM on August 5, 2011

A Beer in Sydney on 3/9?

I'm on the evening shift as well that night, but if you're still going by 9-9.30 or so, I may be able to make it.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 4:19 PM on February 25, 2011

Although I can't make it at all, I note that the map's displaying a 96 Cumberland Road in Cabramatta which is needless to say a long way from the Glenmore in The Rocks.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 3:36 PM on March 6, 2011

Heroin, methamphetamine or combination seafood noodles. De gustibus non est disputandum.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 4:16 PM on March 6, 2011

Sydney meetup to cheer up divabat

Or if anyone isn't too keen on walking the 10 minutes from Central, all the buses from Railway Square go up Broadway and pass Bay Street. The AYH is a good choice, very public transport friendly and the kitchen's top notch for pub food. Thus: 16 January, this Sunday evening, early dinnertime?
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 2:42 AM on January 13, 2011

And now, with a map and radio buttons for attendance!
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 4:30 PM on January 13, 2011

Due to circumstances beyond my control I'm going to be late. I hope to be there around 6 or shortly after. I hope there are at least one or two of you left around...
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:35 PM on January 15, 2011

That's really good to hear, divabat.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 7:28 PM on January 17, 2011

I always try to emerge grinning from the shadows. It's my party trick.
posted to MeFi IRL by Fiasco da Gama at 5:14 PM on January 21, 2011