One of the great pleasures of my childhood was sitting down with my mother or father and reading through a book or three hundred (I was quite the prodigious book consumer, both as a listener, and later, once literate, as a reader). There were many books that passed through Continue Reading
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Ho Ho Netflix Ho! A new trailer for A Very Murray Christmas
SNAPSHOT Written by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray and Mitch Glazer and directed by Sofia Coppola, ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ is an homage to the classic variety show featuring Bill Murray playing himself, as he worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snow Continue Reading
Book review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Humanity has an appealing way of investing people, places and things with attributes that they may not otherwise possess. Whether we do it because we firmly believe deep down they are there, or perhaps more likely, because we wish they were there, we are most firmly in the business Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Even Bugs Bunny gets wrinkles in Andrew Tarusov’s cartoon reimaginings
Time isn’t kind to us is it? Birthdays come screaming by faster than a Formula 1 car taking a corner, there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done, and to top it all off, even if we slather on the moisturiser and Botox till the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: “Icons Unmasked” by Alex Solis playfully reveals the real identities of cartoon icons
Oh how I love someone who thinks creatively out of the box. In this case, it’s immensely clever artist Alex Solis who wondered what really lay behind the faces of some of animation’s most recognisable faces. His artistic musings resulted in Icons Unmasked, which pulls back the veneer to Continue Reading
Book review: You’re Never Weird On the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
If there’s one thing you discover pretty quickly in life, it’s that acting like everyone else generally gets you more approval than doing your own highly-idiosyncratic thing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re at school, or in a church, soccer club or bee fancier society, people like their fellow human beings Continue Reading
Book review: Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse book 1) by James S. A. Corey
Space is a damn big place. Which means that if you’re going to tell a story set in the far sprawling reaches of said space, it needs to be big enough to fill the available real estate. Which is exactly what Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey – a Continue Reading
Moose have teeth too! And every children’s book on dental care wants you to know it
Mooses rule kids’ books on dental health! It’s true – sure there are books about bears, fairies and yes even crocodile’s getting their dental health on, but moose, for reasons I am yet to fathom but naturally wholly embrace without question, are all over books educating kids on how Continue Reading
Shepherd’s Crown is a crowning achievement for Terry Pratchett and his Discworld (curated article)
Oh, waily, waily. The Shepherd’s Crown (2015) – by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his young witch character, Tiffany Aching – was never going to be an easy read for me. I knew and counted Terry among my friends since 2008, and I watched Alzheimer’s slowly and insidiously strip Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The Moomins get their otherworldly freak on with Ingella Hallberg’s The Moomin Project
One of the loveliest parts of my childhood was spending countless hours immersed in the Moomintroll (Swedish: Mumintroll) books written by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. What was so lovely about the books was the way the very family-minded Moomins ended up including an idiosyncratically-eclectic group of other characters Continue Reading