Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

I missed the opening episode of Queer Eyefor the Straight Guy on Australian TV lastnight. Turned out to be highly annoying - ever sinceI’d first heard about the show I’d hada rare combination of misgivings and high hopes.
Misgivngs because of the use of the phrase’queer eye’ - surely, I thought, that’s an unnecessaryharshness. But, y’know, [...]

I really miss ultramarathons. Remember them? A group of damn fools would run from Sydney to Melbourne and it would be covered on the news and people would say ‘wow! kudos on running so far for no good reason’. I wonder why they faded from public acclaim. Perhaps people grew blase about the distance. Maybe [...]

Dear Dr Dan,
Is rory smith a fucktard?
– Mrs Rory Smith
Dear Mrs Smith,
No, rory smith is an anagram of ‘Mr History’. Which is much, much different

More good news! Like the first movie,there is also an ‘Easter Egg’ on the Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersDVD! On the first disc, select ‘Scene Selection’ then go to the last scene,then press the Down Key one more time and then Selectand you’ll get to see a discussion about where the various characters [...]

I was reading an article in the paper the other day - somebody wasfondly reminiscing about the Goggomobile ad. (And I shouldstate right here that if you have never heard of the Goggomobile adthen you should probably abandon this page right now, ’cause it’s justgoing to seem like incoherent rambling. Unlike the rest of the [...]

Watched 28 Days Later last night. This is the sequel to the 2000 horror flick 28 Days which starred a horrific and drunken Sandra Bullock. In the sequel Sandra has transformed into a English man (disappointingly, no explanation was offered as to how this happened) and has fallen off the wagon to such an extent [...]

Well, another week of Dawsonmadness has come and oh so miraculously gonewithout a hint of anything happening on theshow.
Let’s recap what didn’t happen.Ah Joey opened us up by sitting at her computercomposing an email to Dunstan, saying how he wasshoddy in the sack and how she didn’t need to putup with that nonsense given her [...]