That’ll Do, Pig
Huh. Doesn’t even work at all anymore. God, they have really made this impossible. So begins Hour Two of trying to post here, Bloggers, and as I’m sure you’ll see the effort was of debatable worth in...
View ArticleBLOG TOUR MEME!
Tagged by Andrew, because whenever someone mentions my name I must appear…and he got it from Lawrence Burton, and to be honest I haven’t checked how deep the stack goes, but… * 1. What are you working...
View ArticlePursuant To Peter Dinklage
“Well, what makes you think I was playing a dwarf?” “You…uh…excuse me?” “What. Makes you. Think I. Was playing a dwarf in Game Of Thrones?” “You, uh…is this a trick question?” “Kind of, yes.” “But...
View ArticleBememe The Benign
I admit it, it’s all to give Andrew a diversion from his work… So a little while ago, the always-brilliant Jonathan Burns suggested to me that a person who would make a GREAT Doctor who wasn’t from...
View ArticleSome Sherlock Holmes Remarks On “Elementary”
You can blame The Illogical One for it, Bloggers! For in the comments of his recent ad-hoc survey of American TV dramas, in response to someone who said they preferred Elementary to Sherlock, our own...
View ArticleAttention Must Be Paid To this Man
Happy Birthday, Tim! He’s done this before; right when I started blogging he went into this whole John Cusack thing about how he didn’t want to sell anything or buy anything or manage anything...
View ArticleMoore Interviews, Moore Problems
So I guess you’ve all seen this, right? I don’t know if I would comment on it right away, if I didn’t have something of a personal angle on it. But I do, so I probably should. That personal angle, by...
View ArticleNew Year’s Bray
Bom Dia, Bloggers! Did you have a nice holiday season? Myself, I was blessed with Many Books, among them Andrew Rilstone’s “Do Balrogs Have Wings?”, a lovely thing that could never (in the last fifty...
View ArticleTempest In A Peepot
Okay, I don’t know why Noah Berlatzky hates hates HATES Maus so much — sometimes it seems like he hates it even more than anything by Alan Moore, or Jack Kirby! — but even for him this may be going a...
View ArticleSurely You’re Joking, Mr. Elmslie: A Curious Conversation About Adventure...
Welcome, Bloggers! To the interview I’d planned to post way back in July 2011, with countryman and comics fan Matthew Elmslie, busy at work on his actual second superhero novel, called Ded & Sac....
View Article“I Don’t Like To Lose”
In the dream, I find a way to move out of check…but then the board rotates, and I find that way is blocked. I think hard, and find another way, this one perfect. The other one was wrong, I see that...
View ArticlePrincipia Comicbookia: APPENDIX I
Or: “Of Tricksters And Tuning-Forks” * Circumlocution, Bloggers! That’s how you talk yourself around and around things, and into them and out of them, and no one sees you come and no one sees you go…...
View ArticleFlashback! To “Star Trek: Into Darkness…!”
I will finish this thing if it kills me. But, it isn’t really about Star Trek: Into Darkness. Because that movie’s just garbage, and you shouldn’t see it. Somewhere in a file on this very computer is a...
View ArticleAfter The Paracetemol
Or, as it might have been called… Flashback! To “The Dark Knight Rises…!” There’s an important thing you should know about this movie, which is that I hated it. Full disclosure. I’m the guy who praised...
View Article“What Steve Ditko Character Are You?”
Hello, Bloggers! I am currently working on a review of Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”. It’s proving to be..uhrr…challenging. But along the way, in my painful research process, I discovered...
View Article“…In The Astounding World To Come!”
Conversation on a porch, 2065 A.D.: * GRANDFATHER: Hey, kid! KID: Hey, Grandpa. G: What’d you learn in school today? K: (pauses; looks at the Grandfather skeptically) Well, in History class, the...
View ArticleInterview With A Figment, Part VII
Sorry for the delay, Bloggers! I’ve been busy with STUFF… …And I’m actually still busy, but as a palate-cleanser (if only for myself) I thought I’d post you a daydream I had a couple of months ago....
View ArticleA Little Knowledge
Some years ago, I used to drink beer with a chemist, who told me that in the 1960s he was employed by a large pharmaceutical concern in the UK to make synthetic THC. The idea was, that this stuff being...
View ArticleFlattery Will Get You Everywhere
The very clever Debi Linton has been kind enough to think it meet to follow my lead, as far as as fantasy-league Nu52 stuff goes…but I can’t leave her a reply as I’ve recently lost my Blog-Purpose...
View ArticleAdvice From The Eldest Blogger
Howdy, folks! As you can see, I’ve made some changes, thanks to NeilAlieN coming along in the comments to the last post and suggesting that I need to embrace the opportunity… …Or it’s likely to embrace...
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