Time is not particularly good to anyone. Oh, it bestows some blessings, if you would like to call them that, such as wisdom, emotional maturity and insight, and even material gain if that’s what rocks your existentially long-in-the-tooth boat. But we all make do, grabbing those precious moments of Continue Reading
aussiemoose
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 it: Flies, love and the adorableness of Darrel
SNAPSHOT Exchange of glances in the subway. How many opportunities have you let slip? Darrel will do everything possible to not let this one escape. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Is it possible to win the heart of an attractive lady chameleon by flies alone? Darrel, the adorably awkward star Continue Reading
Book review: Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Time brings both blessings and curses for mortal creatures such as ourselves. While the ticking of the clock brings a host of wonderful friendships, precious family moments and memories and experiences we often treasure for a lifetime, it can also bring a sizable amount of loss, regret and grief. Continue Reading
Purrr-fectly literate! The gloriously-good pairing of cats and bookshops
It could be because I love cats and I can’t think of anything better than curling up for hours with a good book – providing of course, at my age, my physio is standing by to un-curl me at a moment’s notice – but somehow cats and bookshops seem the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now” (S4, E7 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … NEAR-DEATH, FALLING STADIUMS AND THE COSILY DELUSIONAL POWER OF SELF-BELIEF … Optimism is a powerful motivator. It propels people forward in a way that pays no heed to the facts on the ground and achieves great things when everything points to ignominious failure being the only Continue Reading
I Feel Bad … the show, not my existential crisis (which is also a thing)
SNAPSHOT I Feel Bad follows “Emet, the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. OK, she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she Continue Reading
Colony: “End of the Road” (S3, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME INVOLUNTARY CAMP REDECORATING … It’s tempting to think of people fighting back against tyranny and evil as universally idealistic and possessed of good and noble intentions. In a Disney Resistance – yes you may picture Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with guns, a cache Continue Reading
10 years of Deadpool … and minor X-Men, poor career decisions by Ryan Reynolds and oh yeah, 2 movies
Oh lordy but isn’t the marketing for Deadpool 2 almost, and I stress almost because let’s be honest, the movie is AMAAA-ZIIING (yes that is my vowel allotment for this post almost exhausted but I care not), as good as the film itself? Deadpool on the covers of 16 Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An endearing avocado half forlornly searches for love in The Pits
SNAPSHOT In a world full of pears, what can you find to fill your pit? A story about longing, love, and finding your other half. …Your heart will break and rejoice as the main character Avo, a lonely avocado roaming the streets of New York City, searches for something Continue Reading
Comics review: Oblivion Song (issues 1-3)
The apocalypse is big business these days. For some reason, and it may have something to do with the fact that ever since the optimistic blush of post-World War Two idealism wore off in the early 1970s that we’ve become more and more convinced the world is going Continue Reading