every week is shark week in australia

this post is dedicated to my old chum (pun not intended until i did some proofreading and noticed it and saw how awesome it was) from upstate, peter, who loves shark week like no other. he is planning his '08 sojourn to the melb around next year's shark week (which should make me feel slighted but doesn't), and instructed his office assistant to make him one of those construction paper chains where you rip off one of the links for each day leading up to a specific event, the event in this case being shark week. he will then celebrate the end of the chain with a trip to legal seafoods.

peter also hates anything to do with menstruation.

why am i mentioning this?

check out the last bullet under the subheading "in popular culture."

i truly hope i haven't shattered his worldview.

oh my god, i'm back again

for my first back-in-oz post, i'd like to introduce the concept of all-you-can-eat souvlaki, often abbreviated souva because we can never let any word go without a diminuitive around these parts, can we?

then i'd like to direct your attention to what souva-makers apparently like to do in their spare time, which seems about right for those who have decided to make skewered meats their life passion. (please note that the link on the page is for their "achievement"; someday i hope these resourceful souvlakieers will find another world record to break so that we can change that to the more prestigious-sounding "achievements").

many thanks to google ads for providing a link to this establishment with an email concerning lunch tomorrow that had absolutely nothing to do with souva, zorba, or greece in general. unless threshermans is owned by greeks? no? didn't think so.

and please pardon the comic sans on ozvlaki's home page. let's not get shofferhoffer all riled up.