Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Sonnets are surely a tough thing to write In that they suffer from so many rules Fourteen lines, ten word sounds, all done just right A form for a poet, not one for fools For fun, you can also make sure your verse Omits one letter – that one after ‘A’ This new constraint makes [...]

Okay. When last we left the DC Universe, Darkseid had unleashed the Anti-Life Equation, which, like most mathematics, is able to destroy the minds and will of all those who oppose it. Fortunately, there are some superheroes left, fighting the forces of evil with their own combined brand of stoutheartedness and innumeracy. One of them, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Table of Contents #134 – Kid Omega #135 – Teaching Children About Fractals #136 – When X Is Not X #137 – Riot At Xavier’s #138 – The Prime of Miss Emma Frost Issue One Hundred And Thirty-Four – Kid Omega We open the new book with a group of punk human-types killing a gay [...]

A Tale Of Two Cities The Glass Ballerina Further Instructions Every Man For Himself The Cost Of Living I Do Not In Portland Flashes Before Your Eyes Stranger In A Strange Land Tricia Tanaka Is Dead Enter 77 Par Avion The Man From Tallahassee Expose Left Behind One Of Us Catch 22 D.O.C. The Brig [...]

Do you have a problem? Can no-one else help? Ask Mr T, fool! Mr. T says: WHAT’S UP FOOL? You say: Your Conversation With Mr T MR T: WHAT’S UP FOOL? Some Tips Try to write in proper English sentences. Mr T doesn’t put up with poor grammar. Spelling. Come on people. Let’s try really [...]

Lions… Rightly known as the king of beasts, for just as rock and roll was dominated by Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, so too do lions dominate their peers. However, they do so in a substantially different way. Elvis, for example, never made a habit of slaughtering and consuming his contemporaries, although [...]

So I’m listening to The Gambler by Kenny Rogers, and Kenny explains how The Gambler could see that Kenny was ‘out of aces’ (in some metaphorical sense) and ergo proposed a trade of ‘a taste’ of Kenny’s whiskey in exchange for ‘some advice’. And of course you immediately think – what kind of deal is [...]