THE INFINITE SADNESS OF SMALL APPLIANCES BY GLENN DIXON - Atria Books, 2026 - Not only is it fun, there’s a certain charm to this story that propels you to the end, despite a rather dystopian flavor to the plot. It is set in a future where humanity’s current inexorable march to extinction has been …
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While returning from the NATO summit in Turnkey, security agents protecting THE RUMP from his usual off-gassing and constipation, whisked HIS HOLINESS into the front entrance of AIRFARCE ONE and out the back door. He was then hidden in a food container and brought secretly to another jet. The RUMP departed on the secret jet, …
THE SPLENDOR BEFORE THE DARK BY MARGARET GEORGE - Berkeley Books, 2018 - It would take a dedicated history buff to know who Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was. On the other hand, if you asked about the Roman Emperor Nero, most people could supply, “Oh, yes - the crazy Emperor infamous for fiddling when Rome burned”. …
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I saw the most charming little piece of drivel on a Facebook page the other day on why we shouldn’t increase taxation on the filthy rich. Some 20 watt bulb in the 100 watt filament of life likened our current tax situation to a group at a restaurant paying the bill. He insisted that if we …
There’s been much kuffule here in Kanadoodle about a new bridge between ‘Murica and Kanadoodle. Kanadoodle’s Prime Ribber, Chillie Con Carnie is taking a lot of flack for being robbed by His Holiness, Ronald Rump - PREZ for life, Saviour of the World, World’s Greatest Comedian, Hero of the Rooskie Federation and Prince of Pieces. …
The Other Bennet Sister - BBC 2026 ten part series based on the 2020 novel by Janice Hadlow - At the end of Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ three of the five Bennet girls are married: Lizzy to Mr. Darcy, Jane to Mr. Bingley and Lydia to the disgraceful Mr. Wickham. From Mrs. Bennett’s …
Fill a field with sweating males suffering from a surfeit of testosterone and adrenaline and make their sole job squashing their opponents so they can put some kind of small object into a net or between a post. Now, if Aunt Jemima came up with a recipe like that, no one would have heard of …
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms (10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa) by Steve Kemper - WW Norton & Co. 2012 - “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” So said Henry Morton Stanley, the American journalist/explorer, at the culmination of his 1871 central African expedition to find the famous missing missionary. The somewhat silly and stilted greeting still lingers with …
My Old Lady - 2014 film written, produced and directed by Israel Horovitz - There is a curious practice in France relating to real estate. The French call it ‘viager’ and it works in a similar fashion to a reverse mortgage, but without using a bank. Both systems are based on the equity inherent in …
Good Omens 3 -Amazon MGM, BBC Studios and Narrativia, 2026, Directed by Rachel Talalay - If you read the Pratchett & Gaiman book ‘Good Omens’ you likely waited with eager anticipation for the release of the mini-series. With a classic fantasy book upon which to write the screenplay and a cast that included Michael Sheen …
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