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Archive for October, 2011

Monday Evening Muse – I Blame Halloween…

I usually post this in the morning! Sorry to everyone – here’s some fun links for this All Hallow’s Eve. Firstly – go in to win! Creative cats required! Email your pussycat poem to the Faster Pussycat Production site (or use the contact form). You will be rewarded for your creativity with one their ultra-special, world-famous Smoggy Calendars. I [...]

On Sally Morgan And The Issues With Testing Psychic Claimants (Are There Any?)

One of the unfortunate side-effects of Twitter is that you can get short, sharp, terse-sounding and inappropriate comments that are intended to be anything but. I’m certain Tim Minchin could talk about that quite easily, for example. This doesn’t mean that the occasional intentional passive-aggressive statement is completely absent, which (as I’m certain we all know) can [...]

Tripod On Spicks And Specks

Includes the classic song from Star Wars: A New Hope.

Simon Taylor On Coffee (He’ll Be Appearing In Perth Next Week!)

Catch Simon Taylor in Perth on the following dates: 1st Nov: MC at Shapiro Tuesdays – Brisbane Hotel, Highgate 2nd Nov: Stand-up at Laugh Resort Comedy Club- Brass Monkey, Northbridge 3rd Nov: Stand-up at Comedy Lounge, The Charles Hotel, North Perth 4th Nov: Stand-up at Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, Brisbane Hotel, Perth 5th Nov: Stand-up [...]

Sunday Morning Survey – ‘Do You Give People A Pass Because They’re On “Our Side”?’

Sunday Morning Survey – Because I Have A Headache For Some Unknown Reason And I’m Kind Of Grateful That I Don’t Have To Get Out Of Bed This Time Of The Day To Do A Damned Thing Beyond Writing This . Today I read a short statement from someone (let’s call them ‘X’) praising a [...]

kate Goes To The Conscious Living Festival

WE CAN TAKE YOU UP TO SEVENTEEN TIMES EARTH’S GRAVITY! More like a terrifying vibrating torture-device, making my eyeballs bubble out of my freaking head, as I hang on grim death and pled the operator to please stop lecturing me on how the NASA astronauts use this all the time and just let me get off the bloody [...]

Australian Gay Sci-Fi Fandom TV Show – Outland

Thanks to Jason for this find – DigitalSpy: Outland’s producer Laura Waters said: “[Production company] Princess Pictures is proud that closeted science fiction fans will finally have a voice and that a full family of gay Australian characters can go where they never ventured before – prime-time television.” Outland is due to begin in Australia [...]

New Token Skeptic Podcast – Very Superstitious!

From the 2011 Skeptrack at Dragon*Con, this is one of six panels that I took part in and it’s one I was proud to moderate! Head to the Token Skeptic podcast site to download (and please consider becoming a donor to keep the show going!) This is “Very Superstitious - psychology, belief, weird things – what [...]

Amazing What A Snake Can Do To Your Mindframe (The Snap-Out Of It Playlist)

It’s Friday. One of those Fridays where reading the latest Hyperbole and a Half is both awesome and yet rather sobering in that you look at it and go, ‘Oh, not just me then.’ And it’s a Friday which is not exactly helped by someone cheerfully asking if you’re going to be at some unspecified [...]

Tim Minchin’s Latest DVD – The Heritage Orchestra Concert

Well, I know what I’ll have to send to a few friends overseas this year… especially in the USA, I guess? And in case you haven’t seen Tim Minchin perform the Doctor Who theme song…