Had a pretty damn good birthday shindig and many thanks to all who came along to celebrate. This week will see me enjoying the rockin’ sounds of Ryan Adams and drinking a farewell to a friend who’s jumping across the ditch to Australia just cause he can. The crazy bastard.

My friend Fin has resumed blogging again to which the world gives praise to Robot Jesus for. Commence reading his sultry words here at https://findlaydonnan.wordpress.com/. There’s a birthday post somewhere he made for me that includes a video of me some years back. I’m not gonna directly link to it, cause I’m passively embarrassed like that, but feel free to look for it yourself.

My other friend Joe also sent me this, it’s actually intended for Christmas, but his powers of procrastination can rival mine at times, so I’m gonna post it like its a birthday thing.

Actually, I also got sent this by Shoshana, originally taken during my birthday party. Don’t ask. I’m not even sure what I could give as an answer.

And finally, here’s a three cello rendition of The Final Countdown. Boosh!

Pregnant teen drink driver does a runner

Police pulled the girl over on Saturday night and she recorded a level of 766 micrograms per litre of breath – more than five times the legal limit for her age of 150mcg.

Earlier in the week she had recorded a level of 828mcg – six times the legal limit – after she was spotted driving erratically.

Drought warning as the tropics expand

Reichler says that the expansion of the subtropics is more feared than the widening of the tropical zone itself. While the tropical belt is hot and humid, the subtropics suffer from severe drought. The Sahara and Sahel are both subtropical regions.

Dancing asteroid spirals close to Earth

The Earth had company this week when an asteroid practically grazed the planet – passing by just 400,000 miles away. That’s less than twice the distance of the Earth to the Moon.

The most awesome new adult swim cartoon of recent years. It’s so hard to describe and to pin point where exactly in all the crazy randomness lies the awesome, so I can only say that it is all awesome. Rather than a scene, here’s a compilation video of their use of the word “boosh”.

It’s like kakow.