As I put this post together, Sydney, Australia, where I live, has just, and I mean just entered a fortnight lockdown to combat the spread of the incredibly virulent Delta strain of COVID-19. It’s exhausting to be back in another lockdown but what makes it worse is that there are Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Aliens are coming … The countdown to Invasion
SNAPSHOTSet across multiple continents, Invasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity’s existence. Events unfold in real-time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them. Continue Reading
Book review: One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
As a people, and even in the face of all evidence to the contrary, we like to believe that things can be as good as our daydreams. We see families as Norman Rockwell paintings of domestic perfection, Christmas as a uniform time of seamless joy and warm-spirited harmony and love, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Sea of Stars (issues 1 -5) by Jason Aaron + Dennis Hallum, Stephen Green and Rico Renzi
If you read enough space operatic science fiction, it becomes clear that the far and even near reaches of the galaxy are an endlessly exciting place of intrigue, mystery and anti-humdrum. But what if that’s not entirely the case and that being out amongst the stars is all bit been-there-done-that, Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #50: BSÍ, OhEm, Chemical Brothers, Kele, Lauren Aquilina + find out How to Eurovision with Ukraine …
Good times or bad, we all need music. Lots and lots of meaningful, thoughtful, heartfelt music, the kind that can make sense of the world around us and make even the worst of things not feel so quite impenetrable or hard to understand. These five artists have clearly thought hard Continue Reading
A loveable trail of destruction on Disney Plus: Turner & Hooch goes TV episodic
SNAPSHOTWhen an ambitious, buttoned-up US Marshal inherits a big unruly dog, he soon realizes the dog he didn’t want may be the partner he needs. Turner & Hooch stars Josh Peck as Scott Turner Jr., the son of Tom Hanks’s character from the original film. Joining him as the titular Continue Reading
Book review: Love Objects by Emily Maguire
How well do we really know those closest to us? There’s an assumption in many families that because we share the same bonds, and often times, the same space, that we must implicitly know what’s going with those nearest and dearest to us; after all, family is the closest thing Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The yellow dream of one young hopeful orphan in Umbrella
SNAPSHOTInspired by true events and filled with messages of empathy and hope, Umbrella follows Joseph’s story, a boy who lives in an orphanage and dreams of having a yellow Umbrella. 2021 Oscar® Qualified Animated Short Film – Created and Produced in Brazil. (synopsis courtesy YouTube) Umbrella, written by Helen Hilario Continue Reading
Movie review: Luca
If you were ever bullied at school for not fitting in, you will be painfully familiar with the peculiar pain that comes from being singled out as different. Even if you love who you are, that kind of sustained negative barrage, especially one borne from unthinking bigotry, can have an Continue Reading
One nerd. Two boyfriends. It’s about to get messy: Never Have I Ever S2 trailer drops
Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, the dramatic comedy follows Indian American teenager Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she navigates family, friends, and high school life. The whole ordeal don’t seem to be getting any easier for her in the second season though, as she’s torn between her physical attraction Continue Reading