Winnie the Pooh, and by obvious extension the man who brought his remarkable adventures to life in The Hundred Acre Wood, Alan Alexander Milne or A. A. Milne, were an integral part of my childhood. For those of us who delight in reading still about the “Bear of Very Continue Reading
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Anzac Day book review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
“Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day on which we remember Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. The spirit of Anzac, with its human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have Continue Reading
Book review: King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
Humanity has a fraught relationship with justice. While we have gone to great lengths to give its often divine imperatives workable earthly form, setting up aspirationally-impartial policing and judicial systems beholding to no one person or hierarchy, in practice, they have often been found lacking, their ability to bring about the Continue Reading
When Winnie the Pooh needs more than just a smackerel of honey, you need an interdivention! (British radio play sketch)
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for Continue Reading
Book review: Arkie’s Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing by Lisa Walker
There’s a fair chance that if you were going through a personal crisis of almost Biblical proportions, one that had seen you lose your lover, husband and successful trend-spotting, and not-so-successful retail businesses, all in the space of a few short months, that you wouldn’t seek to find some sense of Continue Reading
Very much still one of my favourite things: The Sounds of Music turns 50
One of the great sacred rites of my childhood, which all my family observed with suitable pomp, ceremony and gleeful delight, but alas without wearing clothes made from hideously-ugly curtains, was sitting down to watch the annual screening on our sole commercial TV station – yes the barbarism of limited Continue Reading
Giddy up! The Wyld Stallyns ride again in the comic book Bill and Ted’s Triumphant Return
SNAPSHOT Following the time-traveling historic epic of Excellent Adventure and the turbulent life and death of Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted must now fulfill their destiny as the inspiration for galactic harmony! How can someone hate the Wyld Stallyns as much as the evil Chuck De Nomolos? With the Continue Reading
We are all made of water: The apocalypse continues anew with Surface Tension (New comic book series trailer)
My lord humanity you really can’t catch a break now can you? If it’s not virulent pandemics, or zombie hordes, alien invasions or ecological catastrophe, it’s something else. In the case in the new apocalyptic comic series from Titan Comics, Surface Tension which is written and drawn by rising star Jay Continue Reading
Book review: Sand by Hugh Howey
Humanity seems to be forever caught in a tension between who we were, who we are now and who we would like to be. Not everyone is affected by this of course, with a sizeable number of our fellow human beings either unaware of it, or if they do notice its grating presence, Continue Reading
Deck the halls with pop culture icons: Merry Christmas everyone!
Another year over … Hard to believe another 365 days of movie and TV and song and book-filled wonder has passed and we’re here once again greeting Santa Claus with cookies and milk (and likely a zombie, a twerker and faulty stars too). Given it is almost the end Continue Reading