As well as hosting public fora, one other thing LP is up to is facilitating conversation in livespace. I want to get away from the whole “meet a visiting blogger and get trashed” thing and more towards the have a few quiet Sunday drinks and have a convo thing. If you’re interested, and in Brisbane on Sunday, we’ll be at Kaliber in the TCB Building on the Brunswick Street Mall from 4pm. As Nabs might (just) recall, they do good cocktail. And there’s a band, but also outside seating where you can have a chat.
A bit more notice has been given of this event via Facebook, and it really is convenient for organising stuff – for instance, if there’s a late change in plans, it’s easy to contact all attendees quickly. So do please sign up for the FB group if you think you’d be interested in such events and other fora in future.
If anybody wants to organise something under the LP banner in their own town, give us a shout (as Brendan Nelson would say).
Valley lights by *phenomenologist on deviantART
I might be there for once… Maybe, if jet-lag doesn’t take me or my girlfriend out.
I think it’s time LP went on a listening tour.
I’m usually at Coles in Murwillumbah on Saturdays, if anyone wants to pack my bags.
Sorry, dude, only have $30 for petrol.
Hehe.
Well I know when I’m not wanted, but don’t say I haven’t been good value.
[sulks]
DD – C’mon mate, you’re always welcome to hang out with me.
“Sorry, dude, only have $30 for petrol.”
the real question is how old is yer car…5, 10 or heaven forbid 15 years old ?
If I hitch-hiked … nah, forget it. I don’t really mean it.It takes at least a day from here.(Armidale).
btw, is hitch-hiking still illegal in Queensland?
“the real question is how old is yer car…5, 10 or heaven forbid 15 years old ?”
Do not be cruel s.c., in my world of excuse, it is never about “old” cars but “vintage, likely collectable” and “in need of preservation”.
Ok, you can have for 550 bucks.
C’mon, I’m flying in from England (via Singapore) for this.
OK, maybe not just for some Sunday arvo drinks in the Valley but drinkies in teh Valley is always an enjoyable part of any trip back to Brisneyland.
Is there an age limit? Or a Pensioner Concession?
What about self-funded retirees?
Do we have to ’shout’? Or will the Band have decibel limits?
Does one ‘bring a plate’?
Are spouses allowed?
Just askin … ?
Yes you must be over 18.
See post – there’s an outdoor area on the mall and the band plays inside. So no. And yes.
They serve food.
Course!
Ps:
Not since Wayne Goss’ government, I think.
I was seriously thinking of going to this, but I have to work at a place I didn’t work at last week because it was raining (well, sort of, it seldom rains properly).
So I’ll have to maintain my ‘hermit in the (foot)hills’ persona, never having been sighted by an actual blogger other than Mark. So it’s possible, for all you know, that I don’t exist!
If that’s Brian B – I’ve spotted you! Many years ago though – perhaps even your daughter’s 21st.
Yeah, Lefty, back then I guess there were a lot of people in the Education Dept for example who had spotted me. But I’m talking now, as in the life of this blog!
That’s a pity Brian, would have been nice to meet you.
Hey, as far as I know the only Oz politics blogger to have spotted me in the wild is also Mark.
Is there some sort of Superman/Clark Kent joke here that I can’t quite get my head around?
Hope you all enjoy yourselves.
Thanks Paul!
Welcome Australia’s first female Governor-General, folks: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/13/2215462.htm
Update: Photos!
Not the Kaliber I remember.
In fact I don’t think I really remember it all.
No wait a sec, vague sense memories are swimming back into frame.
Brazilian cocktails, lots of lipstick lesbians and some sorta machete fire dance in the toilets?
But I could be getting it all mixed up with my courtesy call at Queensland’s Parliament House.