After a long stint in the UK some friends came back to SA and we celebrated in the time honored tradition of boozing next to a fire.

They say London is the heart of the western world but I say any place where the food is so bad you get into the habit of hosing down your meat before you cook it is on the skids and accelerating towards rock bottom.

We may have to deal with crime, poverty and corruption but at least you don’t have to wash your wors.

I was lucky enough to attend the Johannesburg show last Sunday and it was, in a word, phenomenal. The entire spectacle is something of a phenomenon, whether it’s Steve Hofmeyer’s antics, to the chaos of so many people descending on the stadium to the unreal feeling of being part of something bigger every time Bono said something nice about SA and everyone was flush with patriotic fervor. But back to Steve Read more ›

“Cold Burger Baz?”
“It’s warm enough.”
“Why don’t you microwave it?”
“I dunno D, I think if you put a Mcdonalds burger in the microwave the world might end.”

No, there is no actual chart. It’s not like I have a list pinned up somewhere with the headline “Worst Lyrics Ever” that i regularly update. You’ve heard the Song “Sexy Bitch” by David Guetta and featuring Akon. If you haven’t check out the vid below. I hear it every day, at least four or five times. This is because someone in the store next door to our office likes it. A lot. Unfortunately A-rod’s pronunciation isn’t great, and the only line I can clearly make out is this one:

“I’m tryna find the words to describe this girl
Without being disrespectful”

OK, come now. I get that the lyrics aren’t really important and that this tune is purely a club jam. No-one cares about the lyrics, they just wanna get their groove on. But that clearly isn’t the case because people are hearing it in other circumstances, just like me. And it’s down right insulting. Read more ›

I’ve been pretty damn slack recently with elbowLick and I don’t really have any sort of excuse. Here’s the short version of what I’ve been doing in the last two months:

I spent the first two weeks of October surfing my head off with a bunch of great friends in the Maldives.

Then I came back to Durban for a week, just long enough to propose to Kel. She said yes, naturally. We’re getting married in August.