TET.Life (The Extraordinary Tourist Life)

I 'm like a lot of people whose first experience of Spider-Noir was in 2018's,  Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse animated feature film, where the character was voiced by Nicolas Cage. Prior to that I'd never heard of Spider-Noir. While the character was good in that movie I wasn't so impressed that I was clamoring for any kind of movie or TV series featuring the character. However, the moment I heard Nicolas Cage was doing a live action TV series based on Spider-Noir, I was in. Cage is one of those actors who always goes all in on a role, with interesting ideas that can be hit or miss, but you appreciate his commitment, even when it's a miss.  Thankfully in  Spider-Noir  (Amazon Prime) Cage, who is a fan of old Noir films and Comic books, doesn't disappoint. For reasons that are explained over the course of the series, this isn't Peter Parker Spider-Noir (known as just 'The Spider' in the show). Instead we get Ben Reilly (Cage), a seasoned, down-on...

Federal Liberal Party Leader, Angus Taylor, and Deputy Leader, Jane Hume. Image: Gemini and TET. G enerally I try to keep one eye on Australian politics, mainly at the Federal level because that affects the whole country. State based politics really only become interesting at state election time, as they're something of an indicator of how the various parties might fare in a Federal election. As indicated by the gains One Nation has been making at state level, with a recent Australian Financial Review/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll suggesting the party is now the most popular party on primary support . Much of this surge has been at the expense of the Liberal Party of Australia with former supporters seemingly agreeing that you may as well be voting for Labor since the parties are so similar (they aren't but they're both close enough to the political 'middle' it can certainly seem that way). It seems the all new Liberal Leadership of Angus Taylor, and Deput...