(courtesy Text Publishing) As someone who spent much of my childhood and youth stuck well and truly out of the mainstream – that’s partly true now really but adulthood affords you far more options for ameliorating its worst effects and doing it on your terms – bullied and harassed, there’s 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!
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I’ll always be a geek.” Thoughts on Geek Girl S1
(courtesy and (c) Netflix) Is it possible to have your fairytale dream come true – even when you know don’t know at the time that it IS your fairytale dream – and keep your sense of self intact or does the former swallow the latter whole and you are left Continue Reading
Will summer end before it even begins? That ’90s Show season 2 trailer
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTIt’s 1996 and Leia Forman is back in Point Place for another summer of fun with her friends and grandparents, Kitty and Red. Leia and Jay are excited to be together again after nine months of long distance. But she’s on edge since Jay still doesn’t Continue Reading
Book review: Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Life takes a heavy toll on all of us. How much damage it causes us in amongst all the good and happy times doesn’t become readily apparent until much later in life and usually only when some lightning rod of an event causes us to be Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (book 3) – The Dark Times by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to proclaim, in musically buoyant Mary Poppins fashion, that something is “practically perfect in every way” but that’s really all that can be said about each and every instalment of Lightfall by massively talented writer and illustrator Tim Probert– 1: Continue Reading
Farewell Star Trek: Discovery – reviews of the final two episodes E9 (“Lagrange Point”) and E10 (“Life, Itself”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 9 “Lagrange Point” What a wild ride the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery is! With their spore-drive nav system not exactly up to code and the Breen hot upon their heels, Discovery has no choice but to jump with the hope that they’ll close enough Continue Reading
Book review: Cheer Up, Love – Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Is it possible to be funny both funny and incisive about mental health? It is if you’re comedian Susan Calman, who, when she’s not making us laugh from the stage or on TV – her Grand Day Out series is a joy and makes travelling just as Continue Reading
You’re welcome! Moana 2 drops its first teaser trailer, ready for high sea adventures new
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (voiced by Aulixʻi Cravalho) journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced. Disney’s Moana 2 is written and directed by animation filmmaker Dave Derrick Continue Reading
The real story is just beneath the surface: Thoughts on Bodkin
(courtesy IMP Awards) Adding a healthy dose of quirkiness to most genres usually works a treat, throwing an appealing dash of flawed humanity into the mix which helps to leaven out some of the more straight down the line elements. In fact, properly and well used quirk has the power Continue Reading
Book review: Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) It may not sound like an attractive proposition to be told that a novel will break your heart little-by-little before it breaks it completely but what about if we told you that while all that rending and slow motion rupturing is taking place that some quite Continue Reading