Lunch launch

DL and I attended the launch of cricket-tragic travelogue "An Aussie Goes Bolly" - a six-part series commencing January 7 on Fox8 - at Aki's Indian restaurant in Woolloomooloo. Kingfisher Ale was drunk, as we ate savoury wonders such as spinach leaves in crispy lentil batter. While he was taking a ciggy break, I interviewed the affable star, Gus Worland, and filled an A4 page with anecdotes. It would have been easy to spend the whole afternoon in the posh noshery, discussing sport and cable TV with other journos/Foxtel staff. Easy but utterly irresponsible. As DL and I tore ourselves away from the table, we were given goodie bags of Indian foodstuffs (including additional Kingfisher) and seen to a complimentary cab. We felt like rajahs.