So the past week or so have been a bit of a write off - insanely busy at work last week before discovering that a friend had died suddenly. I hadn’t seen him for a while, but I still felt like we had a lot of stuff still to do together and I’d just been trying to organise a get-together when the news arrived.

I still don’t quite believe it. The weekend was a horrible daze.

And, while it’s a minor matter in comparison, I’m dosed with something truly horrible which is making me feel like shit all day and stopping me sleeping at night in case I drown in my own mucus.

Yes, I’m feeling sorry for myself.

Posted April 30, 2008 Comments(2)

So I was over at Boing Boing, and they pointed me in the direction of this cute competition/meme on Mark Rayner’s blog - taking old adverts and giving them an sf makeover.

I couldn’t resist having a go - so here’s an old (and frankly distrubing) advert for Thorazine given a very slight twist (honestly, pretty much all I’ve done is replace “Thorazine” with “Carousel”).

Posted April 15, 2008 Comments(1)

Honestly, if the first episode of Iron Man Adventure on this Marvel website doesn’t tickle your geek nipples, you are officially dead to me…

Posted January 13, 2008 Comments(0)

So, that Christmas and New Year thing can really catch up with you, can’t it?

Woosh and a fortnight’s gone.

Anyway just to prove that this Blog isn’t dead, I noticed that the first two images from the Incredible Hulk movie are up (see Empire here)  and I was looking at the second pic, of Banner in the big seat thing, and I thought I know that images. And good bless Google and the random obsessions of fans everywhere, three clicks later I was watching clip 19 on this page.

Cool.

More posts soon.

Posted January 2, 2008 Comments(0)

Some blogs - the big, first division guys with things like regularly updated content and actual posts about things and, oh I don’t know, audiences - are today doing a mixture of chest-puffing and preening at the arrival on their doorsteps of advance copies of the new Iain M Banks novel Matter.

I’m not.

Not because I’ve got too much class to rub my readers nose in the fact that I’m more important than you and own things plebs like you could never possess. I don’t have that much class. If I could rub your noses in anything, dear reader, I would.

I’m not boasting or showing off because no one at Orbit considers me important enough to send juicy freebies.

I realise highlighting this fact risks revealing to my few (my happy few) readers that this blog is strictly Blue Square Conference North territory - but hey, let’s face it no one out there was deluding themselves any different, right?

I have to buy my own books.

But don’t think this is one of those posts where the nobody outsider attacks reviewers for taking free stuff and “selling out to the man, man”. It’s not. I’d love to have people send me free things

So no, I don’t have bloody copy of the new Iain M Banks novel.

Yes, I am jealous.

And maybe a little bit angry.

But I still have my dignity. (It’s not like I considered offering to both review the book and to pose naked in publicity stills with the book to promote the review.)

It’s not even that I really, really want to read the book (though I do).

It’s that I want to be sent it free. In advance. Before everyone else. So I can boast too.

Is that really too much to ask? Really?

Posted November 15, 2007 Comments(7)