Gate 10. Melbourne International Airport.
Sniffer dogs sniffing at my bag. Maybe it’s the sunnies that give me away.
Number of people who have come up to me and said “Hey aren’t you that guy on the front cover of the Bulletin” = zero. I even spent ten minutes standing next to it at the newsagent here to tip people off… nada.
Couldn’t take my filtered water bottle on the plane. Apparently can’t get into the US with it in my carry-on. There goes my plan to stay hydrated on the flight.
Books I’ve got on in my bag to read on the flight:
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Also got The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki in the suitcase. No doubt that’s going to come in handy over the next month.
I hate flying. God I wish now I hadn’t bothered to watch the first two seasons of LOST. Here’s a question – if my plane crashes on a pacific island, which member of LOST do you think I’d be?
- The natural-yet-unwilling leader everyone turns to?
- The slick guy who collects all of the valuable stuff from the wreckage, sells it for a profit and is popular with the ladies?
- The fat funny guy?
- The weird philosophical guy who is good with knives but is keeping secrets?
- The panicky guy who runs around saying “OH MY GOD WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” and then starts figuring out who he is going to eat first?
Okay we’re boarding. Here’s goes 19 hours (Auckland stopover) of hell.
I’m gonna go with “the fat guy” but sans funny.
Good luck you big mad bastard!!
thomasr
Slick guy, claiming to be Elvis reincarnate, talking like Steve Irwin reincarnate, selling everyones stuff on e-bay.
You’d be like Charlie in the first few episodes – Someone will say “‘he don’t I recognize you from somewhere” and you’ll say “yeah I was on the cover of the bulletin”
Lost? Lost? You rant and rant and rant about wasting my life watching footy and your watching mind numing Lost? God damm it! You mean I wasted all that time getting down on myself because Cam says I am getting numbed out by watching to much footy and hes watching Lost? Never, Ever, EVER have a go at Football again! You have lost that right!
Molly
PS. I would like to think that would be more like Survivor and you would be Billy! You can do the research to see what I am talking about!
Yeah…for a guy who claims that he does not watch tv…he knows a lot about many shows 🙂
Then he claims to be engineering the death of print…but cannot stop looking at his pic in print.
Photo ergo sum (I love my pic too much therefore I am) 🙂
Hopefully you’ll be the guy who, in season 6, solves the mystery of the foreign land and comes back home with riches.
Good luck in the US!
-dg
good luck..
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/business/yourmoney/22digi.html
Good luck!
and I’ve no idea on LOST, I’d rather watch something else.
Chris – LOL! So true. But then they’d reply “hmmm nope, weren’t you the fat kid on Hey Dad?”
Molly – please, as bad as LOST is, you cannot compare it to watching a bunch of blokes running around in tight shorts grabbing each other’s ass. Why don’t you just give completely up and get a float in this year’s Mardi Gras? Not that there’s anything wrong with that Scott.
Caitlin – you didn’t miss much. Just lots of random plot twists which, like the X Files, will end up NOWHERE AFTER YOU’VE INVESTED NINE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE INTO FOLLOWING IT… not that I’m bitter with Chris Carter or anything. Watch BSG instead. And listen to Ron Moore’s podcast. Listened to one of the flight from Season Three and it ROCKS as usual. Cutting edge stuff.
CD – gotta stay in touch with the people mate. I am, after all, a man of the people. 🙂
Dude, I meant AFL football not that stick your head up someones ass game they play in the North states (where you come from, ass grabber boy (not that there is anything wrong with that)).
Plus maybe if more of us got out and played a bit of football instead of sitting on our ass watching lost we wouldn’t be so over weight!
I am just saying!
Molly
I don’t watch LOST, sorry. I don’t want any of the supposed “reality” TV shows…they’re all crap. I’ll stick to CSI, it’s at least as real as Survivor or Big Brother after all.
Cam – What is BSG? Is it better than Mega Machines, CSI & House?
BAttlestar Galactica!
BSG is by far the best television–linear that is–going at the moment. Especially the atmospheric jump in the last episode. If you’ve not watched any yet, grab the first couple of seasons on DVD.
I agree with Rich. BSG is defiently the best thing to hit the small screen in years. Do yourself a favour and watch it.
I haven’t watched any of the new BSG yet… I don’t think I got over the idea that Starbuck is now a woman.
Hey Rich! Where’s that Gadget show?!
She does have attitude though.
BSG has nothing on House!
Molly