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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Friday evening at Slow Poke cocktail bar (and then dinner afterwards at Pincho Disco). The view from Slow Poke toward Kew is one that you don’t get often. And, the Slow Poke Sling cocktail was exceptional. Also, is it crazy to have made travel plans for 2028?! Because my friend and I have… Continue reading →

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Ten hours of music fun at Laneway Festival. Highlights: on the ‘small’ stage, Bel Air Lip Bombs and Teen Jesus delivered. On the big stages, I loved seeing Lucy Dacus and Role Model but the highlights were Wet Leg and (of course) Chappell. Continue reading →

The Bennington Project: Episode 2 – Bret Ellis, Valley Boy

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Episode two of the podcast, Once Upon a Time at Bennington College, is titled Bret Ellis, Valley Boy, and it focuses on the city of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and how it provided the setting for Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel, Less Than Zero. Continue reading →

The Happiest Things from Things That Are Making Me Happy

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It’s hard to pick out the happiest of happy things but this is my list of 2025 highlights (excluding books – more on those later – and holidays, and I had some amazing ones this year, notably Hobart, Cambodia, New Zealand, and my sinkholes tour). Continue reading →