Tales of unsung heroes generally follow a well-worn path, particularly when they’re about a pivotal event in history with which most people would assume they are comprehensively familiar. Such as the Space Race between Cold War rivals the USSR and the USA which saw the two superpowers engaged in 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!
There’s a new letter on Sesame Street … or is there?
Let’s face it – you get to a certain point in life and you feel like you’ve seen it all. The good old “there’s nothing new under the sun”, a phrase drawn from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible, that laments the unsurprising monotonous feel of life begins Continue Reading
Book review: Who’s Afraid Too? by Maria Lewis
*SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD* In general, sequels do not get much loving, be they movies, TV shows or books. It makes sense – the novelty has worn off, it’s been there, done that and gone and got the whole T-shirt factory, the very idea of the world has lost its initial Continue Reading
Update stage left! Snagglepuss reimagined as a gay southern gothic playwright
Nothing stays the same forever, including it seems some of Hanna-Barbera’s most beloved characters who have been thoroughly and impressively re-imagined by DC Comics in the last year or so. In that spirit of reinvention, one that reflects a more grim aesthetic than the knockabout fun of the 1960s Continue Reading
Now this is music #82: The xx, Contessa, SOFI TUKKER, Matoma & Becky Hill, Half Waif
Life is a complicating thing. Depending on events or circumstances, we are either happily content, in pain, in love, unsure of what’s next or a mixture of all or none. Regardless of where life might have deposited you and what you’re dealing with, these five artists are proof that Continue Reading
Celebrate diversity: Eurovision gets ready for this year’s epic event
The Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956 as a means of cementing new bonds of European togetherness, forged in the ashes of World War Two, using music and song to draw people together in peaceful intent. While you could argue that things haven’t always been peaceful in ensuing years, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The heartbreaking dreaming of Monkey Love Experiments
Dreams can carry us a long way. And if you’re a small lab monkey named Gandhi who is very sweetly devoted to his inanimate but cuddly cage buddy, you have every expectation, after witnessing a rocket lifting off to the moon that it can take away from your small Continue Reading
It’s all connected! New Disney video may prove the Unified Theory of Pixar
There is a Pixar Theory out in the pop culture ether, courtesy of one very clever Jon Negroni (it’s a book too – you can get it here) – to be fair he was inspired by a video on Cracked but ran like crazy (“obsessed” is the word he uses) Continue Reading
Collaborate or resist: Thoughts on the first 3 episodes of Colony season 2
In the tense and politically-charged times in which we live, Colony, from creators Carlton Cuse and Ryan J Condal, has never seemed more relevant or instructive. With the new Trump Presidency firmly in the White House and showing an alarming tendency towards fascism, the idea of a rigidly-policed society controlled Continue Reading
Wilson: Life is crap and then you die … or find your long-lost daughter
SNAPSHOT Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) he has never met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted Continue Reading