Actor and singer Meat Loaf, actually Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947) celebrates his 63rd birthday today. Back in the 1970s there was a school bus trip to Canberra and Sydney. The sound track was a cassette of Meat Loaf’s ‘Bat Out Of Hell’. I can’t actually remember it not …

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Some of you will think this is the coolest thing ever. It strikes me pastors would be statistically over-represented against the general population if their interest in making one of these was surveyed. One afternoon, about ten years ago, I attended a general information afternoon to introduce members of the clergy to military chaplaincy. At …

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Answers the question everyone is asking: why aren’t there more action figures based on historical proto-feminist literary creators? Take one part Power-puff Girls and another part… no that would spoil it. Just when you think this can’t get any more awesome (my youngest daughter’s current favourite word) it gets awesomer. Watch the YouTube. HT: Stephen …

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