kahmelb | January 11, 2010
So, break’s over then. Time to head back into the breach. The words are piling up and somebody needs to do something with them or else there’ll be all sorts of havoc in the world. Can’t have stray, unclaimed words flitting about all over the place just waiting to get into the wrong hands now, [...]
kahmelb | November 10, 2009
…OR – this freakin’ copyright thing doesn’t make much sense when we’re on the internets, does it?
It would be “cultural self-suicide”, according to a tautology-wielding Peter Carey. The Productivity Commission – that independent research and advisory body with the brief, for good or ill, to “help governments make better policies in the long term interest [...]
kahmelb | October 5, 2009
Rochester was my first love.
Well, okay, if we’re being all technical about it, a Japanese cartoon character badly dubbed over for western audiences and personifying the rebel bad-boy-loner cliché was my first love. In own my defence, I was only 5 years old at the time. And at that age it’s never really love, is [...]
kahmelb | May 7, 2009
So there I was wandering absently around the bookshop the other day, arms full and preparing to max out the credit card (again), when I passed a newly released book with a title which made me hesitate.
Thirty Something & Over It
Now, ordinarily I’m not much of a memoir reader and my current non-fiction obsessions are [...]
kahmelb | April 30, 2009
One of the girl friends and I went to perve on Johnny Depp a while back. Well, that was how she put it and ordinarily it would be the case had we chosen one of the more perve-friendly Depp flicks such as, you know, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Johnny Depp’s Chest, or something along [...]
kahmelb | April 20, 2009
So long as there are teenage girls, the vampire will always reign. Which, you know, is totally fine by me.
Not that any self respecting red blooded sexy male bloodsucker should let it go to his head. His power still depends on the girl who lusts after him, even if it’s all a bit pre-teen and [...]
kahmelb | March 14, 2009
Here’s where I reveal my uber-geek credentials.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, you know, like maybe you’ve been living in the bowels of an Amazonian cave with a long lost tribe of media-shy natives who considered the stone-tablet to be catering to the lowest common denominator, they released the Watchmen movie the other day. Just [...]
kahmelb | March 7, 2009
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones
Okay, am I being ambitious to think I can review anything in only 150w? Let’s give it a go:
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones began powerfully, but quickly melted into the kind of trite, mediocre literary-comfort food which seemed the worse for its excellent beginning. Opening with Susie Salmon’s declaration she was [...]
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