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So happy birthday, anyway

Strangers in a strange place, chatting incessantly and with themselves at the Isabel Fidler Room of the University of Sydney's Manning Bar. Local creator Matt "STiKMAN" Huynh throwing a party of sorts to launch his new comic, Happy Birthday, Anyway.

Without a wingman or woman on the side to cover for the pauses, there was much more sweating than usual. Temperatures for warmth and four layers of clothing (with a woollen vest thrown into the mix) making streams run ever faster with each second inside the claustrophobic room.

Free comic for all, free goodies to haul. Birthday cake slices as chunks and crunchy nibbles on a big table fulfilling the free food claim. Sculling eight mangled pieces, the taste of warming cake in a room full of sweat proves to upset the stomach enough to walk out before dehydration set in after at least a litre soaked through the collar. At least.

Thankfully the wander through the campus grounds beats the time when making a detour to Newtown on the way to the Footbridge Theatre from a start of Redfern station.

Soon Van - Friday, October 7, 2005 - 14:10

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