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 [...]

When you stop to think about it, this whole ‘last son of Krypton, powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, proliferation of LL initials, shirtless Justice League’ talk doesn’t… well, it doesn’t sound like something a sane person would buy. Does it? I mean, really.
So, sensibly enough, we, as Smallville viewers don’t stop [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

OMG! OMG! OMG!
Sorry to come over all acronymey up there, but after such an episode, I don’t think I can be relied upon to type full words out. Oh, wait. Looking back over that previous sentence, it seems as if I can. Good news indeed. I shall continue in an acronym-free vein.
This episode sees, finally, [...]

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 [...]

It is not unusual for the opening pre-credits sequence of the show to contain mild elements of horror. A startling and unexpected appearance from the foe of the week is sufficient to kickstart an episode into motion and grab the minds of the easily confused viewer. (Lois in a bikini works well, too. Just for [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to dispensing maritime legal advice in the form of dizzyingly catchy pop music, Mr Chris De Burgh - part time barrister and full-time fan of the crimson-clad feministas - just about gets it right. But not quite.
In his smash hit single, Don’t Pay The Ferryman, Chris provides the titular counsel: “Don’t pay [...]