Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

I think it’s fair to say that my favourite country song based on an obscure biblical tale and set in a southern American state has got to be the Charlie Daniels Band’s smash hit single The Devil Went Down To Georgia.

In this song, the lead protagonist (‘Johnny’) is challenged by the devil to a fiddling [...]

There is one astonishing African animal that kills more humans than any other. What might that animal be, you might ask, if you hadn’t noticed the heading of this article. Is it the king of the beasts, the lion? Or possibly the lithe and solitary leopard? Or do the elephants and rhinos use their respective [...]

I must confess to watching Project Runway on a regular basis. Mostly, on the off-chance that, one season, baseball great Sammy Sosa will be a contestant and his needlework will prove to be not up to scratch. Then the following conversation will take place between Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and special guest judge C3PO:
KLUM: So?
GARCIA: [...]

Personalised ring tones for your mobile phone. They’re all the rage. Unless, of course, you’re in the USA, where personalized ring tones for your cell phone are the thing that’s summoning up all the fury. But let’s not get bogged down over the Americans and their amusing language quirks. There’ll be plenty of time for [...]

Most of the time I can see (or ‘grok’, if you stunningly prefer) where Elvis Presley is coming from. An unwillingness to befriend non-rabbit-catching dogs? Right on, King. Put that pooch in his place. Footwear that is both suede-like and of a blue-ish hue? Lead on in the fashion stakes, EP. An insatiable urge to [...]

Dear Dr Dan,
My girlfriend has a lot of hair on her arms and legs. She even gets hairs on her lip sometimes. How can I encourage her to look after herself better? I love her, but I don’t want to date a Yeti!
– Furious About Follicles

Dear Furious About Follicles,
The good news is: you’re not dating [...]

In his 1985 smash hit single, California Girls, renowned wallflower David Lee Roth revisited a political housing scheme originally proposed by The Beach Boys while stonked out of their minds on the Lucy.

In essence, Roth was proposing that all girls in the United States – be they ‘hip’ ones from the East Coast, knock-outs from [...]

Pilot
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
A Proportional Response
Five Votes Down
The Crackpots And These Women
Mr Willis Of Ohio
The State Dinner
Enemies
The Short List
In Excelsis Deo
Lord John Marbury
He Shall, From Time To Time…
Take Out The Trash Day
Take This Sabbath Day
Celestial Navigation
Twenty Hours In LA
The White House Pro-Am
Six Meetings Before Lunch
Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
Mandatory Minimums

Episode One: Pilot
The series opens with [...]

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I Am Smarter Than You is the long-awaited autobiography of Dr Dan, the man with the PhD in Everything™. Relive the great man’s life, from his childhood in Kent, where he was smarter than his parents and older brother, to his school days at the Californian Institute For The [...]

Table of Contents

#1 – The Summoning
#2 – Time And Time Again
#3 – Oblivion Upon Us
#4 – And Thus Shall The World Die
Issues Five To Eight
Issues Nine To Twelve

Issue One – The Summoning
Okay, people. Let’s crisis it up! Allow me to set the scene: In 1985, DC Comics looked at the list of titles they were [...]