Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

The meek shall inherit the Earth. Perhaps, but I still plan on contesting the will.

Magic stones! To the seasoned Smallville viewer (or, indeed, to one who has seen only the fourth season) they are words that invoke trembling and fear.
And eye-glazing.
If your eyes glazed over every time those bloody stones were mentioned and you feel you may have missed something fundamental, then fret not. You are not alone. Unglaze those peepers. Here’s a [...]

I assume that it comes as no surprise for any of you to hear that I have been watching Rock School, the thrilling new reality TV show starring former KISS frontman Gene Simmons as a hard-rocking teacher trying to form a rock’n’roll band out of a group of classical music-trained youngsters. This should not, of course, be confused with School of [...]

Was putting Bilbo to bed a couple of nights ago and he looked me square in the eye and said in a very heartfelt voice:
“I wish I was Green Lantern”
To which I could only reply: “Me too”.
A lovely touching moment.

Super-secret Smallville spoilers for Season Five:

Lana will be replaced by a cardboard cutout. Whenever she is called upon to move to a new location one of the other characters will carry her there under their arms and prop her up in a corner!
More characters from the DC Universe will appear, including Merv Pumpkinhead (Doug Savant) [...]

People who make sweeping generalisations are naive, close-minded bigots lacking the intellectual capacity to see past their own insipid biases to correct their fundamentally flawed and malodorous thought processes
Y’know, as a rule.

In this 2004 dreckfest, Julianne Moore and DominicWest confront aliens who are brazenly running around wipingpeople’s memories for no clear or worthwhile reason.
Ahem. Aliens? The last couple of hours if you please.

Dear Dr Dan,
What do you think of cloning of babies?
– Truly Curious
Dear Truly Curious,
It seems reasonably clear that the biggest advantage in having a stockpile of perfectly duplicated backup babies stacked neatly in the baby storage cupboard is that it will help maintain vital discipline in the raising of the child (eg “Put those scissors [...]

Just got the DVD set of the first season of Murder One, the early 1990s television show about a celebrity convicted of, I dunno, inventing the Atkins diet or some damn thing. I have, almost inevitably, been watching it closely, wallowing in the nostalgia of it all.
It holds up well - even with its tendency [...]

It is now an established scientific fact as indisputable as the existence of electrons or the stupidity of fly fishing vacations that the opening phrase (’My friend’s got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch’) of The Offspring’s Why Don’t You Get A Job? is one of the finest lyrical hooks ever created.
What most people [...]