Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? And indeed since Christmas Eve? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
The New Farm festivities kicked off with a deeply spiritual mood before Midnight Mass (Italian style, described here) @ Casa Bahnisch. Surrounded by angelic presences we were! You can see the Holy Spirit church steps where we enjoyed pannetone and sparkling wine here at flickr.
We Quincelanders had an extremely pleasant and appropriately festive afternoon at Hotel Bravo in the Valley, I thought…
It is of course an internetty tradition to post a thread for post-grogblog reflections, so here it is. Perhaps some of the Sydney and Melbs folk will be along to update.
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
On Friday night, I met some friends for a cocktail @ The Bowery (and I recommend a Southside as a good summer drink…) before sauntering down to the always excellent Jugglers Art Space on Brunswick Street for their last opening of the year – The X Show – a compendium of some of their most popular artists of 2008. Jugglers is an excellent space – with the beer garden like space at the back surrounded by graffiti covered walls being a much more pleasant venue for a drink (and the wines were $4.50 a glass) than in some smaller and more conventional galleries. I also particularly enjoyed Abigael Whittaker’s artwork, and I’m looking forward to her solo exhibition next year. We then retired to Pho Kim Lan on the Chinatown mall for a vego feast and a few bottles of white from the bottlo at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow which has unaccountably gone minimalist in terms of selection. Perhaps they’re concentrating on shovelling out beer and alcopops to the partying masses. But a thoroughly enjoyable dinner with very pleasant company!
Today, of course, is the LP Christmas Drinks in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney – so I shall see some of you there and let me raise a metaphorical glass in festive spirit to all LPers everywhere! No doubt there’ll be a separate thread or threads on the drinks at a later point. Details of venues, etc, are here.
If you’d like to see a higher res version of any of the images, click through and then click on ‘full view’ once you’re inside the gallery.
Photo of the Obama event in Chicago courtesy of bcbeatty – licenced under Creative Commons.
So, since there was so much discussion before election day of where folks were going to meet up to watch the count in convivial style, how did everyone enjoy their election celebrations? Where did you go? What was the mood? Any good drinking games?
And how’s everyone feeling today?
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