So what is it that brings people to this site. According to my latest stats, search engines are pointing web surfers in my direction when they look for information on: Brett Debritz (as you'd expect), recently departed Channel 9 staffers Rick Burnett and John Schluter, radio funnyman Jamie Dunn, spammer emilycoolplums, Queensland Theatre Company's production of A Woman Before, singer-songwriter Bernard Fanning and, curiously, Brazilian waxing*. I don't claim to be an expert in that last category, but I'm willing to try anything once**.
* I think it referred to my item about Stav Davidson from B105 undergoing a treatment in the name of entertainment.
** On second thoughts, no I'm not.
I attended the official opening of the Dendy Cinemas at the new Portside complex in Hamilton, Brisbane last night and saw Little Miss Sunshine, a fabulous dark comedy with a terrific ensemble cast (Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin and Paul Dano). The only dampner on the night (apart from the rain) was the fact that, when it was time to leave, the operator from the cab company insisted that the place didn't exist and the only Dendy in Brisbane was the one in George St, in the CBD.
An actual phone conversation (edited):
Me: Hi I've been trying to get on to you urgently but I keep on getting through to answering machines.
Other person: You would never get put through to an answering machine when you call [Name of company].
Me: But I have been - three time today...
(It emerges that, in this person's mind, there is a difference between voicemail and an answering machine. It also turns out that one of the people I was trying to contact was on leave but not only did his voicemail message not reflect that fact, the switch operator who put me through to the machine didn't even know.)