Australian blogospheric icon Samuel Gordon-Stewart today announced that he has quit blogging.

I am writing this to inform you that I have decided to close this blog, mainly because I no longer have time to adequately maintain it. I have been considering this for some time and I have finally come to the conclusion that it is the right decision.

Samuel’s blog has always been an intriguing read and I will truly miss its presence in my RSS reader. I wish Samuel all the best in all that he does and thank him for sharing what have often been very personal and difficult experiences with us all.

Read all about how Samuel burst (rather unwillingly) onto the blog scene here. And watch an interview he did with GrodsCorp about his aborted tilt at Parliament in 2007.

ps/- Groupthink!

Episode 32: (Canberra — part three) In which Lachlan meets some Canberrans and Jacob searches for Billy’s “fireworks”.
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Episode 31: (Canberra — part two) In which Lachlan finds inspiration for his campaign by visiting Parliament House.
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Episode 30: (Canberra - part one) In which Lachlan and Jacob drive from Melbourne to Canberra, losing Billy along the way.
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We came, we shot, we drove home.

There are three great episodes of Lachlan Connor does Canberra on the way to your computer screens as soon as I can get my connection to the YouTube uploader to stop reseting. Fingers crossed for tonight. In the meantime, enjoy this video taken on my digital stills camera of a toilet in the Queanbeyan Royal Hotel. Why were we in Queanbeyan? Two words: Floriade and lack of Canberra accommodation. Why were we in the Royal Hotel? We’d arrived from Melbourne at midnight, our motel was around the corner from the Royal, and we were desperate for a beer.

Reading a post by Samuel Gordon-Stewart the other day I couldn’t help follow a link to his favourite fast food shop’s website. Upon arriving at the cyber-home of Kingsley’s, a chicken, chips and burger joint in suburban Canberra, the first thing that caught my eye was this:

Now with cheese! The rest of the world really eats Canberra’s dust when it comes to fast food. Imagine the flash of inspiration when the manager of Kingsley’s, presumably a culinary maestro, was sitting at home one day unwrapping a Kraft Single and thought to himself: “What if, but what if, I put this slice of processed cheese on a burger at the shop?”

And Canberra’s never looked back.