Last night, Mel, Wade, Ben, Julz, Morgan, Rob and myself had a few drinks at the R.E. and the Regatta.  I was a bit annoyed that a tiny ice-filled rum and coke from the R.E. now costs $5.60, and that you can’t sit out on the balcony after 10pm at the Regatta, but hey - at least they make nice cosmopolitans.

My night was made special by a very surreal conversation with New Jersey-native Julz, who told me that in her home state there is a secret midget* colony that no one knows the location of (but if you find it, you apparently get chased away by small people throwing rocks).  Out of interest I googled it today, and low and behold this came up.  The current theory is that back in the day Hollywood directors who needed small people for their films would use the midget colony as a talent pool.  Intriguing.

*I apologize if my choice of words upsets or offends anyone - it’s not intended as an insult or a size-ist judgement.  What is the politically correct term for small people nowadays, anyway?