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Shaun Tan In The New York Times!

by podblack on November 21, 2009

From the NY Times: Tan’s work overflows with human warmth and childlike wonder. But it also makes a perfect adult bedtime story, a little something to shake loose your imagination from the moors of reality right before your own dreams kick in. If you have a look through my Skeptical Books for Children series, you [...]

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Vote For Tim Minchin!

by podblack on February 9, 2009

I have to admit – the first time I saw Tim Minchin perform, it wasn’t as a comedian. He was playing Mozart at the Maj, in a production of Amadeus. Despite having studied and even (for a brief, wonderful time) taught Schaffer’s plays, this was the first fully-staged production I had the chance to see. [...]

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Fallen, Again

by podblack on November 4, 2007

Sometimes you find art that is just so unspeakably wonderful that you are reminded of your childhood love for comics and fairies, ‘Aliens’ and ‘Labyrinth’, Japanese culture and fashion – and it stops you in your tracks. Scientific fiction films, graphic novels, off-beat music and novels inspire this sort of agog delight in me still. [...]

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