Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Every time I listen to the track You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, I can’t help feeling sorry for Meat Loaf. Sorry and furious. And hungry**. Here he is, confronted by one of the most insidious of all career criminals – the word-thief, brazenly stealing his utterances straight from his very larynx, [...]

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New Year’s Resolution! This year I’m definitely getting the laser eye surgery. I’m sick of not having laser eyes.

At Drinks Break, the Second Test continues between Australia and South Africa. At 2MB Community Radio, they’re continuing on with 2008 longer than the rest of us. And whatsername is back from Christmas break and almost ten chapters done.

Onto the fifth issue (or ‘issue five’ as the traditionalists will insist upon calling it). We open with Hal Jordan on trial for killing a god. His accuser, an Alpha Lantern possessed by the evil Granny Goodness, puts forth her evidence: “You have a scar on your head and you can’t remember whether or not [...]

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The finale of the Villains storyline, once again fantastically recapped over at the Preppies of the Apocalypse blog. The comments section is a-frenzy with speculation on what it all means. Thanks to the trial (not guilty! Boo-yah! Suck on that, Nanna!), I missed last week’s discussion, so I’m making up for it with twice as [...]

Like an idiot, I agreed to step in and take Jasper’s place in Punch! (a stage musical version of Rocky with the characters reimagined as various fruits and vegetables of the world). It wasn’t until I slipped the costume over my head that I realised things were, inevitably, about to go totally pear-shaped.

Back from holidays, hence the blogs are all back too. Over at 2MB Community Radio, co-Mayor Affleck is into the Christmas spirit… sort of. Meanwhile, at Drinks Break, the South Africans are done with their choking ways… sort of. And whatsername is thrilling us all with her mad antics… sort of.

I don’t enjoy predicting doom for local graffiti artistes but, let’s face it, the writing has been on the wall for some time now.

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So I watched Back To The Future on television again last night for about the millionth time. (Or, to be more precise, I watched it for about the millionth time, once again, last night, on television. Don’t mean to imply I watched it a million times last night. That would be nutty – how would [...]

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Mel Brooks has a plan to win the Seniors’ Surfing Championship over at 2MB Community Radio. Meanwhile at Drinks Break, the Australia cricket captain is assuring us all that, no matter how many games Australia might lose from here on in, they’ll always be the number one team in his eyes. And, naturally, whatsername is [...]