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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!

Please take some time to watch Cobie Smulders teach Grover about being courteous. Thank you!

Posted on November 10, 2013November 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  This could quite possibly be one of the cutest Sesame Street segments I have featured on this blog to date. I mean, when you team up Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother with my favourite Sesame Street regular, Grover – I still have a Grover plush toy Continue Reading

Posted In TVTagged In Sesame Street

Looking forward to HBO’s Looking

Posted on November 9, 2013November 20, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Is it the gay Girls or the gay Sex and the City? HBO’s new show Looking, about three gay friends in San Francisco appropriately  enough looking for love, has been compared to both shows, and it’s fair to say it probably has a little bit of each of those Continue Reading

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Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Laverne and Shirley reunite on Nickolodeon’s Sam and Cat

Posted on November 9, 2013November 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! We’re going to do it!” With these distinctive and instantly memorable opening lines, the two Milwaukee brewery workers with big dreams of a better life, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) would lock arms, give each Continue Reading

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To the moon … and back with Lunar

Posted on November 9, 2013November 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Lunar is set in a strict robot-patrolled Los Angeles in 2057, and is centered on a man who is arrested after trying to steal bread for his family and is sent to the penal colony on the moon. He must then become the first man to escape from Continue Reading

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Now this is music #18: Bombay Bicycle Club, Yeo, Glass Lux, Rainer, Diafrix

Posted on November 8, 2013December 11, 2013 by aussiemoose

  You would think that at the end of a very busy year – to be fair is there really such a thing as a quiet uneventful year ever? – that music releases would be slowly to a stately crawl, winding down to the enjoyable lethargy of the southern hemisphere Continue Reading

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Hello to you, moose and squirrel: Dreamworks animation readies a new Rocky and Bullwinkle short

Posted on November 8, 2013November 8, 2013 by aussiemoose

  One of the things I remember most fondly about my childhood are the annual holidays my family and I used to take at my grandparents place in Noraville, NSW, 800km away from where my family lived near Byron Bay and a world away from the limited choices of a Continue Reading

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So much sci fi: The Extinction Parade + Sense8 + Firefly … oh my!

Posted on November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  I am huge fan of sci-fi, something which is likely immediately obvious when you see the sorts of shows that regularly pop up on this blog. There is something about this most imaginative of genres, which by its very nature pushes the boundaries of what is possible often just Continue Reading

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Movie review: Thor The Dark World

Posted on November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 by aussiemoose

  Thor: The Dark World, Marvel’s latest entry in its ever-expanding movie franchise universe, is a film that shouldn’t work as well nor be as much fun as it eventually is. Directed by Alan Taylor (Mad Men, Games of Thrones), who takes over from the more Shakespearian-inclined Kenneth Branagh who Continue Reading

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The Walking Dead: “Indifference” (S4, E4 review)

Posted on November 5, 2013November 7, 2013 by aussiemoose

  *UNDEAD SPOILERS AHEAD* DING! DING! DING! Welcome ladies and gentleman’s to this week’s The Walking Dead Battle o’ the Wills! In the white corner, we have Farmer/Fighter/father Rick (Andrew Lincoln), 5′ 10″ and 170 lbs of simmering contemplation and halting conversation. And in the red corner, awash in blood Continue Reading

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Don’t get your DNA in a knot – we have a new HELIX promo!

Posted on November 5, 2013November 5, 2013 by aussiemoose

  “DON’T LET THEM TAKE YOU”  You only have to mention that Ronald D. Moore is involved in a show for me to sit up and take notice immediately. That’s pretty much what happened when I first encountered news of his new show, Helix, which is set to premiere on Continue Reading

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  • Book review: That Island Feeling by Karina May
    (courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Heading off on holidays, all we really want is to get away from the insistent stresses and strains of everyday life. Hand us a cocktail, sit us by the pool or in a bush cabin somewhere, banish the internet to a simpler, more analogue time and Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Project Hail Mary
    (courtesy IMP Awards) At the heart of every great and enduring sci-fi story, sits an impressive amount of evocative humanity. It’s easy just to see the spaceships and the planetary expanses and aliens and wars and epic space opera sprawling across millennia and impossibly far light years of stars and Continue Reading
  • “Oh my God, run!!” The End of Oak Street releases a prehistorically intriguing trailer
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Last Poem by Courtney Peppernell
    (courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) When my parents died less than four years apart in the mid-to-late 2010s, I was plunged into the kind of grief I had never really known before. And honestly, I wasn’t sure what to do with it; I expected it to be intense then ebb Continue Reading
  • Meaning and mutual understanding: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTThis intimate documentary blends the remarkable story of David Attenborough’s first encounter with the baby gorilla Pablo with a deep dive into how Pablo’s direct descendants are doing today in the mountains of Rwanda. Weaving together contemporary and archival footage of the gorilla group and narrated by Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Hoppers
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Really believing in something, in its purest and least judgmental form, is among life’s greatest joys. There’s nothing like the passion that courses through your veins, the sparkle of idea fizzing with excitable urgency around your brain and your heart being fully engaged in something that really Continue Reading
  • Book review: I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Even though the books of Agatha Christie were my entry way into adult reading, thanks to the insightful thoughtfulness of father, an inveterate reader himself, I spent many years away from the crime genre for reasons I can’t fully explain. My way back to the genre came Continue Reading
  • Finding your (unexpected) people: Thoughts on Dog Park
    (courtesy IMDb (c) ABC TV) When life begins to resemble a faint sparkle of its former sparkling promise and glow, the natural reaction is to withdraw from the people around you. It makes sense in one way; life has become too much to handle, and since people make up much Continue Reading
  • Book review: The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell
    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) What a marvellous creation, The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell is. Set for much of its intriguing and compelling storyline at the titular magical hotel in Switzerland, the novel is a richly intoxicating and moving exploration of how grief manifests in all kinds of ways, Continue Reading
  • Movie review: What is Love? (C’est quoi l’amour ?) #AFFFF26
    (courtesy French Film Festival/Palace Cinemas) The end of romantic love is generally portrayed as a piece of cataclysmic, antagonistic trauma with hopes sullied, joy vanquished and that cost sense of belonging messily ripped asunder. In short, it is very much a Dickensian worst of times. But in What is Love? Continue Reading
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