Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

There’s not much to like about Project Runway Australia. For the most part, it’s just a slavish rip-off of the US version mindlessly echoing the same catchphrases the original made famous. (Although, scandalously, eliminated designers aren’t farewelled with a hearty ‘Auf Wiedersehen’. Madness! I don’t care from what country your hostess hails – an ‘Auf [...]

In the song You May Be Right by Billy Joel, Billy offers us several examples of his alleged lunacy, operating as he is on the premise that the target of his romantic affections (unspecified, but let us assume, without a shred of evidence, that it was a young Linda ‘Sue Ellen Ewing’ Gray) is unaccountably [...]

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 [...]

Onto the second issue of Final Crisis, which begins, without a lick of explanation, in Japan. Japan’s greatest superhero (Rising Sun) is laying down all kinds of verbal smack on the young Japanese superheroes who are bringing such shame to their ancestors. He calls them ‘posers’, ‘feckless’ and ‘needlessly obsessed with nightclubs and dance music’. [...]

Table of Contents

#1 – Island of the Mighty
#2 – Master of Light
#3 – Seconds To Go

Issue One – Island of the Mighty
Morrison may be done with the JLA in his run on the official JLA comic, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stay quiet for long. Instead, he’s popped up on the first three [...]

Watched the Heroes Season Two finale last night.

Let me see if I’ve got everybody’s character arc straight:

Claire: Defied her father on every level, joining the cheer squad, flaunting her powers, falling in love with a douchebag, cutting off her toe, losing a car, indirectly getting him shot and commandeering a funeral despite his express orders [...]

As Wikipedia correctly reports, Charlene’s smash hit single I’ve Never Been To Me was released twice (1976 and 1982), only becoming a hit on the second occasion. What Wikipedia doesn’t state is that the original version contained very different lyrics, being the bizarre lament of a Dungeons and Dragons™ player who ‘rolled two pair o’dice, [...]

Surely one of the greatest sitcoms of the much-missed 80s was Family Ties. Not because of Michael J Fox’s comic timing. Or Justine Bateman’s breathtaking prettiness. Or Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter Birney’s flawless portrayal of hippy parenthood. Or Tina Yother’s, um, very large hair…

No, the powerhouse behind the show was clearly the theme song. [...]

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 [...]

Have I mentioned my deep-seated hatred of hoop earrings? People (eg Kiki Dee) often ask me from where this loathing stems. I always tell Kiki the same thing: it stems from the fact that hoop earrings have a centre of gravity that doesn’t rest on the surface of the earring itself. That kind of madness [...]