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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: True friendship cleans up in Dust Buddies

Posted on November 9, 2016October 24, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Dust Buddies is a story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz and Lint, who live peacefully under a couch. When an evil maid comes to clean the house and sucks Fuzz into her vacuum, Lint must overcome his fears and set out to rescue his friend. Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “The Cell” (S7, E3 review)

Posted on November 8, 2016November 8, 2016 by aussiemoose

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … WALKERS LYING DOWN ON THE JOB AND DEALS WITH THE DEVIL AKA NEGAN COMING BACK TO BITE YOU ON THE PROVERBIAL*   The zombie apocalypse is generally not the kind of situation that if you would think of as boring, predictable or rut-like. Existentially excoriating yes. Continue Reading

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Falling Water: What if your dreams are not your own?

Posted on November 8, 2016October 20, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT An intersection between reality and unconscious thought, FALLING WATER is the story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream.  Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious.  However, the more Continue Reading

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Ginger and Snapper find real humanity in the midst of the apocalypse

Posted on November 6, 2016November 4, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Ginger is a little girl living in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. While most of the planet has perished because they stuck to the cities, Ginger lives way out in the country and thus far hasn’t seen a single zombie. She also hasn’t seen a living person Continue Reading

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Book review: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

Posted on November 6, 2016February 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

  In the West, where sensitivity to free flowing spirituality often finds itself subsumed to logic and consumerism more often than not, the idea of reincarnation is often treated with outright scepticism and ridicule, or at the very least, benign neglect. For some reason, the idea that we are not wholly Continue Reading

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Fantastic worlds beneath: Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters

Posted on November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Trollhunters follows 15-year-old Jim (Anton Yelchin) and his two best friends, Toby (Charlie Saxton) and the benevolent troll Blinky (Kelsey Grammer), who make the startling discovery that beneath their hometown lies a hidden battle between good trolls and bad. Ron Perlman also lends his voice as Bular, a Continue Reading

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Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #7: “Those Are Strings, Pinocchio” (S3, E22)

Posted on November 5, 2016November 2, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Once of the great enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is the way in which it beautifully balanced the quirky joys of small town life, and specifically the BFF bubble within that inhabited by Lorelai and Rory (Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel respectively) with the reality that life is not always Continue Reading

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Daria the sequel? College Humour hilariously speculates on what form this might take

Posted on November 5, 2016October 25, 2016 by aussiemoose

  If you were never one of the cool kids in the hell they call school – as you might be able to tell from oh-so-subtle swipe, I was never a member of the movers-and-shakers, an outcast who was bulled throughout – then it’s highly likely you’ll have an affinity Continue Reading

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fox proves there are all kinds of families

Posted on November 5, 2016November 1, 2016 by aussiemoose

  Being a parent is not for the fainthearted. Even so more so when you not planning to be a parent, and your meal, in this case eggs stolen by a fox looking for a deliciously yolky meal, hatches unexpectedly and declare you momma, poppa and every other surrogate parental Continue Reading

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Now this is music #79: Fleurie, SIGNAL, Sannie, Jessica Says, Bishat

Posted on November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 by aussiemoose

  To its detractors pop music is vacuous, musical slop for the uncritical masses. But for those of us who know it well and see it at its best, it’s vibrant, inquiring, combining thoughtfulness and an irresistible way of getting its message across. That’s very much the case with these Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Growing up, and especially starting on the transition to adulthood, is never an easy thing at the best of times, but when you’re life is not “normal”, not even close to it, (and that’s leaving aside the fact that the very idea of normal is a rubbery Continue Reading
  • New releases May book review: Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
    As a reviewer who knows a metric ton of books in a year, I have come across a few “second chances” books in my time, stories which ask what might happen if socially isolated or broken people burdened by past mistakes were given the opportunity to remake their lives (deliberately Continue Reading
  • #Maythe4thBeWithYou trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu takes us on a beautiful journey across the many generations of Star Wars
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWe see Grogu with his new Anzellan friends and using a tiny telescope as he works alongside Din Djarin. The Mandalorian’s Zeb Orrelios is back, featured in poster art that also includes Sigourney Weaver’s new character and a pair of Hutts. From toppling Imperial remnant AT-ATs to Continue Reading
  • Graphic novel review: The Ghost Fleet: The Whole Goddamned Thing by Donny Cates (writer), Daniel Warren Johnson (artwork) and Lauren Affe (colours)
    (courtesy Image Comics) If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, you will know a thing or two, cinematically firsthand, about what it feels like for someone to narratively put the pedal to the metal and never once depress it. It’s a blockbuster pellmell ride into action excess and Continue Reading
  • Movie review redux: Star Wars: The Force Awakens #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou
    Returning to your childhood, especially when it comes to the movies and TV shows the defined it, can be a fraught activity. There is an excitement certainly, how can there not be, but there’s also a sense that this nostalgic excursion may not be quite the enjoyable embrace with an Continue Reading
  • Book (ish) review: Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon (short story) #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) One of the more enjoyable pop culture trends of recent years has been the willingness to give less iconic characters a little more time in the storytelling sun. Concomitant with this, has been an appetite for imbuing these characters, good and bad, with more humanity and Continue Reading
  • Movie review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Sequels are curious things. People crave, desire, need and want them because who doesn’t want to see a story continue, but they are, often more than not, disappointed by them because while scratch an itch, it’s only on the viewing (or the reading etc) that it’s realised Continue Reading
  • UPCOMING READ: As We Fall Through Time by Claire North
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) SNAPSHOTFrom the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries. In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, Continue Reading
  • Fantasy April book review: A Pirate’s Life For Tea (Tomes & Tea #2) by Rebecca Thorne
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) “Cosy” is one those words that suggests contentment, peace, of being right with the world and nothing terrible coming to trouble those wrapped happily in its blissful cocoon. And while all of that is true, it doesn’t fully describe what happens in the delightfully titled sub-genre Continue Reading
  • He’s back! Ted Lasso S4 drops teaser trailer
    (courtesy AppleTV) SNAPSHOTSeason four marks the return of fan favorites including Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift, alongside new additions Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely. In season four, Ted Continue Reading
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