Saturday, November 27, 2004 Service: * * 1/2 Food: N/A Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * I’m finally wearing my skirt out. It’s one I bought at Truworth’s a lifetime or two ago with Jacqui. Had to dye it black, cos it was kinda beige, and was a bit see-through. Being black is kinda convenient now, cos it fits with the fetish theme of the party I’m at tonight. I’m leaning forward at the moment, hands far apart, grasping…Continue Reading “De Sade Party, Club Nile, Northcliff”
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Service: * Food: N/A Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * * * A table on the stage, filled with glinting stainless steel implements and latex gloves and disposable hypodermic syringe boxes. It’s the last meeting of the BDSM group this year, and the topic is medical fetish. There’s a particularly normal looking dude on the stage telling us all about how to conduct a successful medical play scene. (If you’re new to the world of D/s or S&M…Continue Reading “Cool Runnings, Melville”
Thursday, November 18, 2004 Service: * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * I love having famous friends. Aryan Kaganof is one of them. Guto Bussab is another. And they’re both together in one room, tonight, with at least thirty seriously delectable babes. I’d say at least three-quarters of the babes present tonight are prime babeage. And the rest are a very good seven out of ten. “Jeannette!” I say. Another famous person. She’s…Continue Reading “The Muti Gallery, Milpark”
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 Service: * * * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * It’s the launch of the television series I’m directing. Go_Open, on SABC2 every Saturday from 5:30pm. It’s only a half hour, and it’ll open your eyes and soul to the open source movement. Ok. So maybe I’m overselling it a bit. But I’m in a hype frame of mind. Cos this is a baby of mine, and it’s being revealed…Continue Reading “Theatre on the Square, Sandton”
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Service: * * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * * I don’t know what Ané looks like, and she hasn’t given me her cellphone number. So I decide the best strategy is to enter the Mugg & Bean at exactly the time we agreed on. I walk in, looking as artistic as possible, and a tall, pretty woman stands up, smiling hugely. “Roy!?” she half asks. She’s seen my photo, so she has…Continue Reading “Mugg & Bean, Cresta”
Do watch SABC2 this Saturday 20 Nov from 5:30pm to 6pm for the first episode of GO_OPEN, the show I’m co-directing. It’s about the Open Source movement, and it’s really funky. A magazine show. 13 episodes. — Blue skies, love, Roy Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.
Monday, November 15, 2004 Service: * Food: N/A Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * Damn!!! I can’t play Alistair tonight. He’s not able to make it, due to having burned his arm with hot glue somehow. He’s supposed to be my opponent at the backgammon club’s regular Monday night match. The reason I’m disappointed is that Alistair is the guy who got me into backgammon, and I’m saving my board for him. I’ve decided that I want him to do the honours…Continue Reading “Pizza Pronto, Sandton”
Sunday, November 14, 2004 Service: * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * * I’ve just unzipped at the urinal just outside the venue where we’ll be playing backgammon in a few minutes. It’s 10 in the morning, and fifty of South Africa’s hottest backgammon maniacs have each shelled out fifteen hundred bucks to be here. Except me, of course. I won my way into this tournament. And I’ve told all my friends. Heather is one of them….Continue Reading “La Toscana, Montecasino, Fourways”
Friday, November 12, 2004 Service: * * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * 1/2 Finished work at seven tonight. It’s been my editing week, and we’re a week away from launching the show. Go_Open is alive and kicking, and the effort is definitely paying off! Riaan is my editor, and he’s pulling unbelievable hours. He gets to work at 7 every morning, and leaves around midnight. Brad, our senior researcher, is with me. He’s keen on a heart-to-heart…Continue Reading “Piatto, Cresta”
Monday, November 08, 2004 Service: * Food: N/A Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * * It’s a special backgammon tournament tonight. We’ve got 14 people each paying a hundred bucks to slaughter each other in order to win entry into a major tournament this Sunday at Montecasino. It costs R1500 to enter the big one, and many of us wouldn’t have been entering cos the price is too steep. This way, whoever wins has only laid out a hundred bucks, and stands…Continue Reading “Pizza Pronto, Sandton”