Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Does it strike anybody else as odd that when somebody is ‘cowed’ they tend to react ‘sheepishly’? I say, users of the human language, get your farmyard animal phrasing in synch!

Just got the DVD set of the first season of Murder One, the early 1990s television show about a celebrity convicted of, I dunno, inventing the Atkins diet or some damn thing. I have, almost inevitably, been watching it closely, wallowing in the nostalgia of it all. It holds up well – even with its [...]

It is now an established scientific fact as indisputable as the existence of electrons or the stupidity of fly fishing vacations that the opening phrase (‘My friend’s got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch’) of The Offspring’s Why Don’t You Get A Job? is one of the finest lyrical hooks ever created. What most [...]

Arabic television station Al-Jazeera today released the latest audio tape to surface from terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden – a bootleg recording of Bin Laden’s concert at the Hammersmith Odeon. Audio experts were quick to study the tape and are said to be ‘extremely confident’ that it is, indeed, a recording of the exiled Al [...]

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 [...]

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is over. It’s been over since 1995 when the cast of Mad About You discovered a radio message emanating from one of the stars in the Orion constellation. Paul Reiser immediately rushed into production a sophisticated supercomputer, powered by neural networks and genetic algorithms and spread across a series of [...]