Posts made during May, 2009
How to slack off from work for an hour…
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The lovely folk at the Athenaeum Library In Melbourne recorded my ‘library talk’ this week and put a podcast of it on their website. Amazingly, some of my talk actually made sense and those people I paid to laugh all the way through did a wonderful job. There may be some confusing parts as well, though. But that’s not just because I was talking too fast, but also a powerpoint ’slideshow’ accompanied my talk. It’s goes for a somewhat long-winded hour, but if you’re slacking off at work you can listen to it here… (read more)
Two library events and a nasi goreng.
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Look how excited everyone is! That’s because I’m doing two library events this week complete with slide show and ‘witty’ tales about my latest book Sleeping Around. You can catch me at Pakenham Library on Tuesday May 26th at 7.00pm and at Athenaeum Library in the city on Wednesday May 27th at 1.00pm. For full details check out my events page. I’ll also be selling and signing books, which you can then sell on ebay for thousands of dollars.
And for those that can’t make it to Melbourne this week why not come hear me talk in Bali… (read more)
Some of my other work.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
As well as gallivanting around the world writing travel books I also still do a bit of advertising work. Most of the time I’m flogging mechanics or hamburgers or trucks or new property developments. But, sometimes I get to make ads that make a difference. Along with fellow creatives Tony Hardy and Monique Aidone at Frontier Advertising we created the new TV/cinema campaign for Youth Beyond Blue - the national depression initiative. Depression and anxiety are among the most common mental health problems experienced by young people and often the symptoms aren’t recognised and therefore young people don’t get the help that’s needed. Sometimes, the signs can be ignored or passed over as ‘just part of growing up’. Our ‘job’ was to encourage people to… (read more)
An adventurous journey around the world.
Friday, May 15th, 2009
That’s the title of my new book. Well, the German translation of my latest book. It’s called ‘Couch Surfing – Eine abenteuerliche Reise um die Welt’ (or translated into English: ‘Couch Surfing – An adventurous journey around the world.’) And this is the cover. (For ALL my loyal German readers the book will out in late September – check it out here). At least I know what the translation is! In the Thai translation of ‘Rule No.5: No sex on the bus’ I have no idea what the title of the book is. And the Thai’s don’t have a very good track record for book and film title translations. Here are some recent Thai translations of books and films… (read more)
Where the hell is Brian?
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Okay, I have been super slack on the blogging front. I’ve been home back in Australia for two weeks and I still haven’t updated the rest of the blog from my travels. No excuse really. Just slack. I had full intentions to blog when I was travelling, but then I got so far behind (courtesy of no internet network in Burma for nine days) that I just never got around to catching up. BUT, I am back on board and I’ve got a lot of travel blogging and general blogging news to catch up on. I’ll start with some stories and pics from the rest of my trip for my new book…. (read more)