This is a post that was originally published on my Tumbler blog well over a year ago. My opinions as expressed in it have pretty much stayed the same, with the qualification that ANY Narnia audiobook is better than NO Narnia audiobook. Among my favourite books, those that have meant a lot to me since… [Read more…]
January 1, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 30 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the… [Read more…]
December 4, 2011
Okay, so a few weeks ago I appeared on Highway To Mars. It’s an excellent podcast discussing different facets of science fiction. Anyway, I mentioned in passing to Odile and Stefan that I had written a story many years ago at night school as part of a writing exercise. Odile has read it and amazingly… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
As some of you who follow me on Twitter may know, I recently watched all six seasons of Dr Who in a matter of weeks. I then promised a blog post on my opinions. I haven’t delivered yet. The main reason is that I was trying to clarify my intense dislike of a particular character.… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011
So, I’ve touched on this before in tweets and in audioboos, but I get annoyed with those who consider people who have “Internet friends” to be somehow deficient, lacking in social skills and graces. I don”t consider that there is a difference. I have many issues as a person. I can be petty, vindictive and… [Read more…]
September 10, 2011
It was, by all accounts, a clear day in Manhattan early on September 11, 2001. It began as a slow news day. It would not end that way. It would become a day of eternal infamy, a new high-water mark in terrorism against people who had given no cause for such hatred. The day that… [Read more…]
September 4, 2011
So, today was Fathers Day in Australia and for the first time since I’ve been a dad, I’ve been thinking about why, about what it means to be a dad. Being a dad isn’t easy, it’s damn hard work. It’s not always fun, in fact it’s more often than not a grind. You go through… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
My favourite female supporting character is Kai Winn was the right balance of pretended concern blended with barely concealed malice. I always loved the fact that she had her own agenda and that she genuinely thought it was in the best interests of Bajor. My favourite aspect of her character was the fact that I… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
Day two of this challenge will be up later tonight.
August 8, 2011
Really, could there ever have been a question as to who my Favourite female lead character would be. Captain Kathyrn Janeway, despite the opinion of a lot of ( in my mind ), very silly people, was the best female lead character of any series, not just science fiction, for a long time. It helped… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
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