Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Giraffes… tallest of all animals, yet notoriously poor basketball players. Horn-headed, yet anointed by Pope Benedict The Giraffe-Lover as the ‘least Hellbound’ of all God’s creatures. Fans of U2, yet dismissive of The Joshua Tree album. Is there any animal more paradoxical than the giraffe (Venezualan Paradox Beetle notwithstanding)? The male giraffe has an average [...]

Preview Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Preview One of the most anticipated fictional contests is finally here. The greatest mathematical geniuses of all time and their literary counterparts have agreed to settle their fundamental differences in the most appropriate manner possible – namely, a five day cricket match. Team selection [...]

Over the course of history, there have been many great inventions that have changed forever the lives of mankind. The wheel. An accurate system of counting. Thigh boots. To name just two. But perhaps the biggest breakthrough invention was the development of the alphabet – a set of symbols that when correctly combined would allow [...]

‘Twas the night before Star Wars, and geeks queued round the world Counting the hours ’til the new flick was unfurled The TIE fighters were hung atop the cinema with care In hopes that Lord Vader soon would be there The action figures were nestled home snug in their ship With light sabre clutched tight [...]

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 [...]

Starring Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) as Kid Flash/Mr Tosser/Dunstan, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) as Ah Joey, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) as Chipmunk Face, Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) as The Paceman, Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) as Gay Jack, Andie McPhee (Meredith Monroe) as Crazy Andy and Grams (Mary Beth Peil) as herself. For more [...]

Starring Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) as Kid Flash/Mr Tosser/Dunstan, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) as Ah Joey, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) as Chipmunk Face, Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) as The Paceman, Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) as Gay Jack, Andie McPhee (Meredith Monroe) as Crazy Andy and Grams (Mary Beth Peil) as herself. For more [...]

Watched The Oscars last night. I think my favourite part of the ceremony each year is when they go through the list of people who died during the year, showing little clips of their careers. And, most of the people are not particularly famous and get polite applause – as you know, people rarely boo [...]

I once knew a man who had the ability to stare insects and small rodents to death… Actually, this is not true but it is a great conversation starter.