Overheard at the celebrity-studded Brisbane opening of Cirque du Soleil's Varekai last night:
Crowd member to handsome young man: "Are you famous."
Reply: "Not yet, but I'm working on it."

PS: The audience did include the likes of The Veronicas (much smaller in real life than I imagined), Bernard Fanning and lots of radio and television types.

This morning on 612ABC, Spencer Howson and I spoke about Varekai, which is apparently not his scene, and why the Brisbane City Council is apparently replacing perfectly good signage.

I had the unpleasurable experience this morning of hearing some young children playing the recorder. In common with all instruments of torture, the recorder seems to be able to inflict great pain on the victim whilst giving enormous pleasure to the perpetrator.