I've always wanted to do one of those 'what's hot' and 'what's not' lists you see on other people's blogs but the only 'not' I can think of is this weekend's AFL grand final replay, which I have no patience for (spoken like a true football heretic) but Kim doesn't mind at all. So I won't put that in ;-)
Instead I'll focus on my current top 5 'hots':
* Oslo Davis, cartoonist. I have only just discovered him! He has a regular cartoon in the Sunday Age where he illustrates a comment overheard in public. And now he has a book of collected said illustrations, titled Overheard, funnily enough, which I bought on impulse yesterday after I laughed out loud in the bookshop.
* Washington. Can't stop listening to her album I believe you Liar.
* Sloane Crosley. I read somewhere she was a little like David Sedaris, which is why I tracked down her book in the first place. She's put out a new one since but I'm reading I was Told There'd be Cake. I can see some similarities - she's a little edgy, droll, sardonic - but she's just a really engaging writer of humorous, personal stories about odd things like how she came to have a toy pony collection. Ok, maybe she's a bit Sedaris-esque.
* Mad Men. Can TV writing get any better? And the smoking and drinking and carousing! How did they ever get any work done in the 60s?
* Heston Blumenthal. Sometimes I mentally tune out when he's making something with brains or guts or what-not, but I'm obsessed with his desserts. What I would give to be a dinner guest!
So there you go - my very own 'what's hot' list. That was fun. I'll try and put some more thought into the 'what's not' aspect of the exercise next time.
