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How To Read “The Mentalist”
Student of modern TV show writing? Ex-professional charlatan? Lover of highly-talented incidental-music creators? Occasional sporter of vests? You bet I’m interested in it, Bloggers, and I’ll tell you...
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My Blog Saw Something
The LOLs are not what they seem…! But seriously folks. It’s a red-letter day, because I haven’t done a link- or booster-post for ages, therefore by now I have actually seen TOO MUCH for me to try...
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BLISS
How many times do I have to try to change a link? It can’t be fucking changed. I’ve spent TWO HOURS trying to change it. I don’t WANT it changed now! So if my luck holds true to form, the change...
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If A Room Eats An Elephant…
…Does it still vomit up blind men, even if no one sees them? Just a quick note, Bloggers: I am off to see Aida tonight, as you know the most sheerly spectacular of operas…but Aida has already proved...
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“I Don’t Care About The Rest Of The Year…”
Bloggers… I’m off to Denmark. Pickled herring, cheap pilsener, and Viking ruins all day long. Nothing cuter than a well-built boat, the girls apparently all look like my Travelling Companion with...
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Fresh Eyes
Good evening Bloggers, and all the ships at sea! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been back from Denmark and Manchester and Glasgow since June, but I’ve been caught up in plenty of other things…you...
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Hal Jordan Isn’t Just A River In Egypt
or, “The Mirror Has Two Reflections” or, “Sex And The Single Superhero, Take Two” Hola, Bloggers. Well, wouldn’t you know it, as is my wont I went around and around and around the topic but failed to...
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Moving Ahead Of The Weather
“Grab a shower.” Sheep roaming on the green hills of Mortehoe. Blue sky. Clean, cold wind out of the west. “No offence, mate, but you smell like a Frenchman.” Thus, Bloggers, with the single most...
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Universe Part Eight: Bonfire Of The Novelties
Or: “Superhero Sex: Skypeing With The Devil” … Everytime I think I’m out, I keep pulling me back in. Best of the midwinter season to you, Bloggers — or as we call it for some reason, the beginning of...
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Flashback! To “The Time-Traveller’s Wife…!”
This will be a short one, but true. None of my friends think this is funny. …So I was flicking channels on the TV one day, and came across “The Time-Traveller’s Wife”, which was a bit more than half...
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On A Dark Desert Highway
So, did you see this? Ideological tech companies whose visionary founders were raised on a diet of SF cautionary tales and shabby reading comprehension skills are conspiring, Bloggers, to make me sound...
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The Tale Of One Red Cent
Hey, remember when we all figured out that Sarah Palin really wasn’t the slightest bit interested in running for public office? That she just wanted to fleece credulous Tea Partiers by pretending to...
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Technology And The Void
It’s all Andrew‘s fault. He has a blog, and people sometimes comment on it. And sometimes I think about the comments, and get an idea…and then sometimes it also occurs to me that Tom Bondurant is...
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Google Update: The Lady Or The Tiger
Gratifyingly, there seems to be a small backlash brewing against the evil device from that Eighties And Nineties Movie…and a nice list of problems with them is pleasant reading here. But today, getting...
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Interview With A Figment, Part VI
I enter the room, and sit down. “Thank you for seeing me under such false pretenses,” I say. And there is a long pause. … … PETER DINKLAGE: Well, you are definitely NOT from the Little Persons’...
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Flashback! To “Push…!”
Now I’ve seen it three times, and honestly I think I love it. Isn’t that strange? I was just so sure, you know, that it was something like Misfits Of Science writ large and sloppy…something cheap and...
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There Are Many Superman Reboots, But This One’s Mine
Let me take you back, Bloggers, to a past that never happened…and a man who never existed. This is comics, moving with the times! (Though I guess there is no particular reason why comics should move...
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An Open Letter To Tom Foss
TOM! Hi. I have started to get back into reading your blog. I feel just the tiniest bit of shame for not having read it these last couple of years? Evidence of time: the last I remember reading your...
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Blog Called On Account Of Google
Hello, folks! Just a quick note to let you all know that a lot of the links around here have been rendered inactive, as my old A Trout In The Milk blog back at Blogspot has been DELETED. Fortunately, I...
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The Reboot Of The Villain Lex Luthor, By The Wastrel Blogger Plok
Aha, what fun! I’ve tried this a couple of times now, and Richard especially keeps me on my toes — on top of all his other enviable qualities, he also has refreshingly strong opinions about Lex Luthor!...
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