The world is not exactly a kind, forgiving place. That won’t comes as a newsflash to pretty much anyone, but what might come as an epiphany of sorts, especially if you’re the kind of person lacking in the kind of self-awareness necessary for any kind of truly-fulfilling life, is how 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!
The short and the short of it: The animated love of Mobile attraction
If you think back to when you really felt the first stirrings of attraction to someone, probably the first thing that springs to mind how desperately you wanted to be with them every single chance you got. It didn’t matter which obstacles stood in your path; you were going to Continue Reading
Book review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
It’s hard to say what separates a character in a novel that you absolutely fall head-over-heels in love with from those who you appreciate and like but are happy enough to leave behind, but one thing is certain – Queenie is very much the former and not even remotely the Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 6 – Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Faux doco goes Behind the Music with the Star Wars Cantina Band #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT During his final night at San Diego Comic-Con, CONAN presented a hilarious faux-documentary in the classic “Behind the Music” style faux documentary about Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, most famously known as the Star Wars Cantina Band. Music business luminaries as Michael McDonald, Kurt Loder, Don Was Shep Continue Reading
How big are Star Wars spaceships and planets? You might be surprised! #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT We never get to see any Star Wars spaceships in any sort of physical context because they’re always next to like planets or in outer space or next to arbitrary sci-fi cities. It got me wondering what they would look like if I put them in places you’re familiar Continue Reading
Book review: The True Queen by Zen Cho
When you typically think of fairies and the kind of home they might inhabit, you imagine ethereally winsome beings who drift around in naive delight, seeking to help those they encounter and awash with optimistically-uplifting joie de vivre. There’s no doubt that’s an appealing vision and one which entities like Continue Reading
One Marvelous Scene: Spider-Man: Homecoming and that wild, fun car ride (video essay)
Is there one particular Marvel scene that you really love? You may not necessarily have one – for the record, I love the opening credits fight scene set to ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – but Lessons from the Screenplay‘s Michael Tucker (who you Continue Reading
Comics review: Goldie Vance
As a kid, one of my favourite things in the world was to curl up on the couch, or spread-eagled on the floor, and read mystery novels. Anything from The Hardy Boys through to Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators through to the Dana Girls, and much later all 87 Agatha Continue Reading
Join Remy in the kitchen: Go Side by Side with Ratatouille
SNAPSHOT A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family’s wishes, and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary Continue Reading