Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Dear Dr Dan,
My girlfriend is into all these charities and stuff I just don’t care about. She wants me to sign a petition against Nike™ sweat shops. Should I just go along with it?
– Couldn’t Give A Rat’s

Dear Couldn’t Give A Rat’s,
Your girlfriend is crazy. Talk some sense into her before she wastes her life [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]

Cost: $AU 19.95, from all mildly dubious bookstores

In 2004, acclaimed up-and-coming screenwriter Dan Liebke kept a detailed diary of his attempts to write and get produced a movie length screenplay in Hollywood. Breakdancing With Hollywood

tells the details of this epic quest.

Originally published online, this written account explores the original diary entries in much greater detail, [...]

If you’ve been following either the Top Ten Kickers of Butt You Want On Your Side When Things Go Pear-Shaped list or the Next Best Kickers of Butt You Want On Your Side When Things Go Pear-Shaped list, then a question you may have sensibly considered is which of those almighty butt-kickers you most resemble.

Fortunately, [...]

I hate when you’re at a party, deep in a conversation with somebody you’ve just met, and you drop in the phrase ‘there are more (somethings) here than you can poke a stick at’ (eg miniature porcelain Pol Pots), only to discover you’re talking to Four Time Freestyle Stick-Poking World Champion Bryce Buford. Because that [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]

Cost: $AU 24.95, available for pre-order

The sequel to the critically unclaimed Kitty Wittgenstein and the Academy Award-Winning Werewolves, Kitty Wittgenstein and the Sinister Society of Southpaws details the adventures of the world’s favourite supermodel philosopher as she attempts to unravel the mystery behind a menacing coven of left-handers determined to control the future of the [...]

“My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine to five and then he takes another home to find me waiting for him.”

So says Sheena Easton in her 1981 smash hit single, Morning Train (Nine To Five). She also goes on to claim that he “works all day to earn his pay so we [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]

Cost: $AU 49.95, available in all good book stores

This glorious coffee table book offers beautiful pictures and uncommon information about 22 of Africa’s most astonishing animals. From the lion (‘invariably three-dimensional’) to the wildebeest (‘invented by Oscar Wilde’) and a score of others, Astonishing African Animals takes you on a journey through Africa that is [...]