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“The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death” Wool is a post-apocalyptic epic that’s been refered to as the sci-fi answer to 50 Shades Of Grey.  That’s not because it has terrible writing and contains fisting but it originated as a self-published ebook that was a scant 60 pages.  After finding an audience and a major publisher, Howey ...

The song is La Femme D’Argent by Air.  But whats most striking is the footage in the video which shows Market Street in San Francisco in 1905.  It’s rare to see footage from so long ago, let alone video that runs for so long and is a tracking shot where you see so many people, vehicles and buildings.  It’s a ...

That was a crazy-ass Superbowl final between the Ravens and the 49ers today.  I was backing the 49ers and they came so close after being 20 downs at one stage. The Half-Time show from Beyonce was pretty decent.  It featured a re-union with Destiny’s Child and was a pretty awesome spectacle.  After the game I spent some time trawling Youtube ...

On Wednesday of this week, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the much anticipated date for this year’s federal election – September 14th.  That’s right!  Australia is going to have a long election cycle, America style. What’s in store for the next eight months? Things started low-key enough at Australia’s monolithic news media company News Ltd.  They broke the news ...

Well guess its again well overdue for a blog from me now. In Sept I took the plunge and quit my middle management corporate job in London, packed my bags and moved to Vancouver. An unnerving feeling giving up your income and established lifestyle and throwing the cards in the air by jumping on a one way BA flight to ...

A belated Happy Australia Day everybody! Queensland is getting smashed with cyclones and some people are projecting that we will flood tomorrow!  Fortunately, it’s not expected to be anything close to the levels of 2011. The storms hit right across Queensland.  My sister in Rockhampton was without power and mobile reception for a day and the bridge near her street ...

Its 2008 and the Royal Rumble is at Madison Square Garden.  Superfly Jimmy Snuka is already in the ring as a surprise entrant.  The countdown hits zero.  Bagpipes start to play.  New Yorkers lose their minds.  And a feud that started with a Scotsman hitting a Fijian on the head with a coconut 30 years ago is re-ignited. So awesome.

A new Coen Brother’s film!  With John Goodman!  And Carey Mulligan! *sits patiently and waits for the film to find a distributor* Have a good weekend everyone!