18,100 Miles In The Air, With 438 Pages To Read
I’m on the road again. Since I just finished a few days at the Perth Writers Festival (and I promise to blog about how great it was catching up with authors Alom Shaha, Leslie Cannold and Jane Caro –...
View ArticleThe Fatwa – Salman Rushdie – BBC Documentary
Currently on tour in the USA; latest book currently sitting next to my bathtub after I cycled out for the day and got a very good weights workout carrying a copy of “Joseph Anton” back home. Here’s the...
View ArticlePacking For ScienceRewired (What Books To Take?) #SRW12
Quick! New Token Skeptic Podcast episode now out! Episode One Hundred And Forty – On Great Skepticism – With Pat Linse And Donald Prothero! I’ve just discovered a book or two that I left in the...
View ArticleRobert Siegel Interviews Salman Rushdie Video – Joseph Anton At Centre For...
Author Salman Rushdie discusses his memoir, Joseph Anton, in which he discussed his ten years spent in hiding as a result of the fatwa issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 for his...
View ArticleMy 2012 Reading And Viewing (And Event-Going) In Review
Currently on a break – back on Thursday. Here’s something I blogged before I left. Penn Jillette used to do this all the time when he kept a blog, and I used to find it interesting. I don’t know if...
View ArticleWhat’s In My Bag (UWA Open Day And Start Of Perth Writers Festival Edition)?
It’s been a time where I honestly don’t care about anything to do with atheism, skepticism, -isms of any kind and whether there’s fraught-ness and fighting – because I’ve been merrily busy! Step one –...
View ArticleAdventures At The Perth Writers Festival – Sunday #PWF #PerthFest
I’m away for much of next week, so here’s the last blogpost for a while – there should be podcast episodes very soon, however, for both Token Skeptic and 365 Days of Philosophy. Until then – enjoy some...
View ArticleReading For Today – Marwa Berro: Between a Veil and a Dark Place
Marwa Berro: Between a Veil and a Dark Place: What it is like to be a Muslim woman, and why we know what freedom is (and you may not): I can say these things now. I never could before. We never could,...
View ArticleWorld Book Day (Let’s Read Trash)!
Kirk: Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You’ll find it in all the literature of the period.Spock: For example?Kirk: Oh, the complete works of Jacqueline Susann, the...
View Article#PerthFest Token Skeptic Special Podcast Episode – Perth Writers Festival
It’s been a very busy week with the Perth International Arts Festival (join the Patreon and see the Home event content, including Tim Minchin!) – and now the Perth Writers Festival! With a...
View ArticlePlease Let Us Not Forget… Oprah Winfrey And That 2020 Bid
Like everyone else in Australia who should be gearing up for a busy 2018, the lure of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff got me out of piles of research yesterday morning and...
View ArticleToken Skeptic Week Two at #FringeWorld 2018 And The Curiouser And Curiouser...
Just a quick round-up on what’s been going on – firstly, there’s a new short episode of some of the running about I’ve been doing for Fringeworld 2018 over on the SoundCloud page: Some of the...
View ArticleGood Omens – It’s a Deity Job (But Someone’s God To Do It)
Good Omens is now screening worldwide (on Amazon Prime in Australia). I was under the impression after seeing Bill Nighy in nearly every British film that has arrived in Australia over the past few...
View ArticleLong Live The Bookshop – Vale Embiggen Books
A woman walks into a bookstore wearing two bowler hats at the same time, goes up to the desk and asks ‘Do you have any kazoos?” – one of my many experiences at Embiggen Books. This is a difficult post...
View ArticleMy Adventures At Perth’s #SupaNova2019 (And A Nod To The Rook On TV)
I’ve just posted a Patreon-only post for anyone interested in a more tidier version of the notes I took at the various panels and talks at #SupaNova2019, but you can also check them out on my social...
View ArticleLambs Of God Review – And Then There Were Nun
After the experience of watching the new Veronica Mars which arrived this month with a fourth season (I can’t be bothered reviewing it, but here’s a spoiler about my views on what they’ve done with it...
View ArticleToken Skeptic – Books Read in 2019
How was your year of reading? In 2019 I read a fair amount (mind, this is probably not unusual a list for me, as I often read in my spare time) and this doesn’t include ‘books I’ve re-read’, as that’d...
View ArticleBook Review: Devolution (If Bigfoot Exists, He’s Not Happy About Us)
I saw plenty of reviews comparing Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks to the works of Michael Crichton, and quite frankly, it’s difficult to challenge that....
View ArticleThe Magic of the Airwaves – Border Radio and You Be The Judge
As they did on other border stations, spooks rivalled singing cowboys as mail pullers at XEPN. Also called radio astrologers and psychologists, these performers were vaudeville mentalists of the...
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