SNAPSHOTGamma Rae wants to be a superhero, and why shouldn’t she!? She’s been strong since she was a baby. The only problem is, all her siblings are notorious hero-murdering criminals! Join artist DEREK HUNTER (DuckTales, Adventure Time), and writer JASON YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND) for this all-new ongoing, gore-filled, laugh-out-loud 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: Crossings by Alex Landragin
Coming up with a truly original idea is a challenge. After all, thousands of stories, whether in oral or written form, have ensured that there are precious few new ideas under the sun; in fact, storytelling tropes are so well ingrained in our culture, that students of writing are taught Continue Reading
Why I love my favourite bookstore, Better Read Than Dead (Newtown, Sydney) #loveyourbookshopday
The following is my love letter, on Love Your Bookshop Day, to my favourite bookstore in the world – Better Read Than Dead in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. It’s a rare thing indeed for me, even as an inveterate people person who connects with just about everyone after 4.5 nanoseconds (likely Continue Reading
Book review: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
You could be forgiven, mere pages into the nostalgia-tinged, conversationally-oriented wonder that Daisy Jones & The Six, for thinking that the novel should be shelved in the music section of your local bookstore rather than on its fiction shelves. Styled like a VH1 Behind the Music special, where anyone and Continue Reading
MUTTS: Take a sneak peek at “The Art of Nothing”
There is a great deal that the legendary Charles Schulz got right about a great many things but perhaps one of his best calls was saying that the Mutts comic strip, launched by Patrick McDonnell on 5 September, 1994, is “one of the best comic strips of all time.” That’s Continue Reading
Life, love, and tragedy: The quirkily moving storytelling of Fleabag (season 1)
I love Fleabag. It’s a quirky, refreshingly honest and often funny take on the messy business of human, a grossly flawed undertaking at the best of times but one made all the more impossible to navigate by the intrusion of grief which twists and turns already-challenging life situations to the Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The escapist joy of Pups ‘n’ Planes
SNAPSHOTA boy with muscular dystrophy and his dog go on an adventure of discovery in an old spitfire plane. (synopsis via Vimeo (c) Wonderlust) Imagination is a powerful thing. It lifts us well and truly out of the banal and the everyday, the hopeless and the can’t-be-done to a place Continue Reading
Book review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
For all the beauty, love and grandeur of which humanity is capable, there is also a frightening capacity for evil on a horrifying scale. Nowhere has this dark part of our collective soul been more terribly expressly that in the Holocaust when the Nazis murdered six million Jews (along with Continue Reading
Benjamin: “It’s about my inability to love, but I’m fine now.”
SNAPSHOTIn Simon Amstell’s affecting, bittersweet comedy, a rising young filmmaker is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance and the upcoming premiere of his second feature. (synopsis via IMDb) If you are to believe countless representations of falling love, all it takes is openness, a romantically fairy, god or Continue Reading
Movie review: Happy Ending #SCA19
Life is, whether we like to admit it or not, a series of reckonings. Going to school for the first time. Leaving home and starting life as a newly-minted grown-up. Marrying. Having kids. Not having kids. Securing that dream job. And as explored in Hella Joof’s supremely self-assured film Happy Continue Reading