It is an oft-used phrase, particularly in these perilous times when far right nationalists seem intent on trying to reshape the earth in their poisonously dark image, but one that very much deserves repeating: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Continue Reading
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Update stage left! Snagglepuss reimagined as a gay southern gothic playwright
Nothing stays the same forever, including it seems some of Hanna-Barbera’s most beloved characters who have been thoroughly and impressively re-imagined by DC Comics in the last year or so. In that spirit of reinvention, one that reflects a more grim aesthetic than the knockabout fun of the 1960s Continue Reading
Books on the move: Fascinating timelapse video shows re-shelving efforts at New York Public Library
The Rose Main Reading Room of The New York Public Library is an impressive space. The beautifully-appointed cavernous room is full of reading desks, a studious atmosphere, thousands of library users during opening hours, and as you’d expect, a titanic number of books (over 52,000 to be exact). It is Continue Reading
Happy Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas one and all! It’s my most wonderful time of the year when I can decorate my tree to within one inch of its much-loved life with pop culture ornaments without number – there are a finite number of them but when I start pulling out all the Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I spent festive time with Simon’s Cat
If you have been owned by a cat, and I have been fortunate to have been owned by a number of delightful feline companions, you will be well aware that they are hilariously contrary creatures who possess a pleasingly perverse ability to know what you don’t want them to do Continue Reading
Think monsters have it easy? Even Godzilla has a Bad Day
It would be easy to assume that a creature as big and fearsome as Godzilla could never have a bad day. Sure every time he dares to step on shore he’s shot at, attacked, harassed and electrocuted but surely after all this time – he first appeared in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 Continue Reading
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fox proves there are all kinds of families
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
Want Nick Offerman to read Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer” to you? Of course you do
Nick Offerman is one of the most talented actors working today. Adept at deadpan comic delivery – a talent enhanced all the more when he’s acting opposite his immensely-funny life partner-in-crime Megan Mullally (they played ex-husband and wife Ron and Tammy in Parks and Recreation) – and deft written Continue Reading
The Best of Adam Sharp: The new book by Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project)
SNAPSHOT On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It’s the lifestyle he wanted, but something’s missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano Continue Reading
He’s like the rest of us really – Doctor Who is having a Bad Day (animation)
It’s reassuring to know that even the great Time Lord himself, Doctor Who has the kinds of bad days that make you want to go home to Gallifrey, go to bed and pull the doona up and pretend the world is warm and wonderful place. Yes much as we Continue Reading