Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

I was talking to Bilbo this morning about the new game that he’s started playing called My Tribe. It’s basically a Civilization™ style of game where you create a little colony and then assign them tasks and they build a world and grow trees and research things and catch fish. All very innocent [...]

Just listening to Achy Breaky Heart by a certain Billy Ray Cyrus and one question immediately comes to mind. What sort of inner body communications system did he have that you could tell his arms, feet, lips, eyes, mind and fingertips that they were through but his heart wouldn’t find out?

For that matter what kind [...]

I’ve just discovered the most exciting bit about the new TV show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Namely, the inclusion in the cast of a certain Mr Brian Austin Green (aka David from Beverly Hills, 90210). Finally the good people at Fox have taken note of the countless petitions and threatening letters that I sent [...]

William’s first training run… Where to begin…

I rocked up 15 minutes early or so, full of vim, vigour and alcohol. Bilbo and I started kicking the ball around and acquainting ourselves with the feel of the ground and so forth. Bilbo was providing a running commentary throughout the entire experience.

Five minutes or so later, the [...]

Bilbo frantically came in to me yesterday afternoon complaining that his tongue was very sore. He was almost in tears which is extremely unnatural for William as he can usually take serious body trauma (such as leaping face first onto a tiled floor from six feet or getting run over by a 18 wheeler (recently [...]

In the Post Office attempting to post a CD, I got stuck behind some Stamp Numpty at the Post Office who was buying some new stamps for their collection.

Stamp collecting??? If there were ever a bigger waste of time I’ve not experienced it. I know stamp collectors would be insulted by that statement, but then [...]

My latest insight into the mind of Bill came last night. Trish picked me up from the bus stop and Bill was sitting in the back seat looking all sad. I asked him what was wrong. And he said “I want you to help me stop it turning dark on the island”. Bill refers to [...]

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.

I was watching Inspector Gadget 2 last night (not 100% certain why but I’m thinking alcohol was almost certainly involved) and it occurred to me that the Child Welfare people that decided to leave Penny with her “Uncle” Gadget really should be investigated.

I mean, this is just gross incompetence of the highest order. Who is [...]

With Valentine’s Day just gone, it got me thinking (not surprisingly) of all the things that I really hate about the world. So, I decided to create a list. My original list only had one item (Stupid people) but I decided that I should be more specific. So, here it is:

10. People that are drunk [...]