pub alternatives:

ink - $4.50 tea/coffee (and refills) with pastry/dessert
mamma lucia - ~$3 for a cake or drink
settlers cafe - boardgames, affordable set meals, free game time with drinks on weekdays
blue moo - $5 for 2 drinks! and acapella performance monthly usually.

next stop - hangout@mountemily - chillout bar, pigout cafe, lookout rooftop terrace
and
arab and bussorah streets

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wakeboarding

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"...the person who hasn't encountered whatever name's being dropped at the time has no legitimate right to be part of the discipline. Or...to even be considered an intelligent human being. It's intellectual snobbery taken to its extreme... // Nobody seems to be allowed to simply like music anymore. Instead one has to know...I really don't see, for example, why my inability to identify... should mean I'm not allowed to like..."

i sigh with satisfaction that someone can assemble a montage of similar thoughts and write it out with such force and lucidity.