I was having a chat via Skype with my brother this morning and we spent a bit of time discussing Star Wars as he was currently rewatching the prequel films.  By an unhappy coincidence, later in the afternoon I heard the news that one of the original concept artists, Ralph McQuarrie, passed away today. I wasn’t familar with McQuarrie until ...

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I am getting more and more excited for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit which will be out at the end of this year.  Given its near-decade long pre-production, its crazy to think its only nine months away now.  I’ve begun re-reading the book for the first time in over a decade to get refreshed. Jackson just released his sixth video blog ...

I’ll just come out and say it.  I never really liked the Playstation Portable.  In 2004 it was Sony’s first foray into portable gaming and I felt they delivered a subpar system.  I dislike it for all the well-worn reasons that have been covered by non-believers:  It’s a system that can run Playstation 2 quality graphics but it only has ...

After about four or five seasons of major tinkering, Survivor One World feels like a return to roots for the grand daddy of reality tv shows, now running its 24th season.  The last few seasons of Survivor have been of varying quality but they all felt like they moved too far away from the basic formula of the show and ...

It is all happening, folks.  All happening at once. Brisbane Roar travelled away to play against an in-form Perth Glory who Fox Sports tipped to finish second in the table after the form they showed in their last few games.  Massimo Murdocca was a late addition to the Roar side.  His wife gave birth to their first child the night ...

It was me Austin! It was me all along!

I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet but I got a few texts and emails about it.  Apparently Bret from Flight of the Conchords wins an Oscar.  🙂 Also:

Previously…on AusPol: Australia is a democratic country with a two party majority:  the conservative Liberal Party and the slightly less conservative Labor Party. Australia lived and thrived in economic prosperity under Liberal Party legend John Howard in the late Nineties and early Two Thousands.  Howard had endured plenty of peaks and troughs in his tenure as Australian Prime Minister but ...