SNAPSHOTNegative Space is a wonderful stop-motion cloth animation that features a son reminiscing about his relationship with his now-departed father through the act of packing a suitcase. The narration of the film comes directly from a Ron Koertge poem of the same name, while the characters and scenes were created 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!
Book review: If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll
At first gloriously silly glance, If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll seems like a very silly novel. A riotously funny, over the top tale of a bunch of circus performers, then based in Germany, who decide to pull the grandest con of all by having one Continue Reading
One second hilarity: Montage of every Looney Tunes cartoon from 1929-1969
SNAPSHOTJust goes to show you how much animation can change in 40 years. …I don’t think I would’ve gotten into to researching old animation if it wasn’t for the Looney Tunes shorts. Shows like Toon Heads and the Bob Clampett Show that used to air on Cartoon Network we’re my Continue Reading
Life is full of ups … and downers: This Boy by Lauren Myracle
SNAPSHOTLauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age. Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the king lobster who intimidates the other male lobsters, gets all the lady lobsters, and wins at life. At least not according to anyone in Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #15: Aisle, Jhay Cortez + KAROL G + Haze, Estherlivia, Whosah, Haute + Eurovision 2020 host city
We’re zipping around the world with this instalment of Songs, songs and more songs, racing from Denmark to Puerto Rico and Colombia back to Sweden before touching down in the USA and then France. Some serious figurative frequent flier miles clocking up there. One thing that becomes clear with all Continue Reading
What’s a “new normal” feel like? The Unicorn finds out
SNAPSHOTA recently widowed father with two daughters is encouraged by his friends to re-enter the dating scene. Surprisingly to both him and his friends, he becomes the most sought after single guy due to his description as an attractive working father. (synopsis via wikipedia (c) CBS) I love it when Continue Reading
Book review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
There is a quiet joy in being surprised by a book. What you suppose it will be like when you pick it up in a bookstore and are intrigued enough by the back cover blurb to add it to your TBR pile – in my case, a towering mountain that Continue Reading
Comics review: Midas
Diving headfirst into a truly-imaginative, brilliantly-executed story like which inhabits Midas by author Ryan North (Squirrel Girl) and beloved illustrators Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (One Day a Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything) with an equal touch (deliberately chosen word; you’ll see why soon) of menace Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Leave What You Don’t” (S5, E13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND OILY ZOMBIES, REGRET AND LOSS AND SOCIOPATHS ON HORSEBACK … “Oh, the humanity!” First uttered by reporter “Herb” Morrison as he watched in horror as the Hindenburg burned on 6 May, 1937, taking 36 lives with it, this expression is normally associated with lamentation and sadness. Continue Reading
Knock! Knock! Lucas the Spider tries to make a new, rather frantic, friend
How could you not want to be friends with Lucas the Spider? The creation of Josh Slice, and voiced by his nephew, is sublimely, delightfully innocent, a spider who firmly believes friendship comes before everything else. Thing is, no one has the fly he once tried (successfully) to befriend, and Continue Reading