Excessive Consumption archive
Documented observations from a completely cooked year online AND offline.
BITES OF EXCESS: MAY 2026
Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.
STATE OF PLAY: PART ONE
Queenslanders speak about Origin the way Catholics talk about sainthood.
CHEERS TO…LARA BINGLE
There are few Australian women who have been more publicly projected onto than Lara Bingle.
A STROKE OF GEOGRAPHICAL LUCK
Ronald McDonald House doesn’t feel tragic. Not in the way you expect, anyway.
CHEERS TO…CJ HENDRY
How can someone can be that culturally significant, that online, that widely adored and still somehow completely miss your corner of the internet?
A VERY META MET
For years the Met Gala has felt like the last true monocultural event left standing. This year? It felt like a billionaires AGM with better lighting and (borderline) better fashion.
CHEERS TO…COMMUNITY THEATRE
Cheers to community theatre that understands culture doesn't just happen on stage - it happens in the audience, in the dressing room, in the casting choices, and in who feels welcome enough to say yes in the first place.
SAME GIRL, DIFFERENT STAGE
From PACT Theatre in Erskineville, to Trinity College Speech & Drama, to primary and high school Shakespearean productions - if there was a stage, I found my way onto it.
CHEERS TO…OFF SEASON
Now in its sixth year ‘Off Season’ is, quite frankly, a masterclass in backing a point of view and sticking to it.
BITES OF EXCESS: APRIL 2026
Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.
WON’T SOMEBODY TAKE TOURISM SERIOUSLY?
Tourism has a positioning problem.
Not a product problem.
Not a people problem.
A positioning problem.
CHEERS TO…ORANGE TOURISM
What's easy to overlook from the outside is that none of this happens by accident.
BACK FOR THE HAT
If their strategies had been to let the news cycle move on the damage may have been contained, not amplified. Instead, both chose to escalate (because, men).
CHEERS TO…ONE LESS LONELY GIRL
Sometimes the coolest thing you can do is admit that the 10-year-old version of you is still very much alive (and absolutely losing her mind).
LITERALLY STANDING ON BUSINESS
The whole thing looked like the internet because that's where Bieber actually exists now - not on a stage, but in meme-ified digital fragments.
CHEERS TO…FAYT THE LABEL
I would give my left arm to see the back-end social media performance stats on Fayt’s faux-chella brand activation.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL. IT WASN’t.
If you’ve lived through the last few years (and, like me, tuned in at 8am daily to Gladys Berejiklian’s Covid pressers) this came with some very specific emotional baggage.
CHEERS TO…YOU GUYS!
100 tickets. 67 people. Gone in 2 hours and 26 minutes. $10,000 raised. $26,000+ in prizes.
Bites of excess: March 2026
Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.
THE ZODIAC INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
You don’t even have to believe in astrology to participate. It’s a just cultural shorthand now - equal parts personality framework and shareable meme.