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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Frightfest: peaks, troughs and a mission.
Saturday dawned, sunny with clear blue skies. A blessing, after three twelve hour days at work in the dark, staring at a screen. No sun for me. I would be spending the day voluntarily sitting in a dark room, staring … Continue reading
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Frightfest
August Bank Holiday is rolling around, in the same sort of way as a rhino that’s about to run you down. It’s big, it’s slow-moving, but somehow it’s on you before you realise it. Normally at this time of year … Continue reading
Free Speech
So, let me see if I’m getting this right. Legislation is being mooted by an unelected plutocrat that would effectively criminalise one Briton in eight. Anti-piracy association FACT are pushing for no-trial prosecutions due to the sheer weight of numbers … Continue reading
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Bigmouth Strikes Again
Just a quick rant to get something that’s been stewing for the last 24 hours out of the system. Janet Street Porter in yesterdays Indie. Dear Gods. I’ve had little respect for this yawping bray-factory since she sold what tiny … Continue reading
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A Few Recommendations
Darwyn Cookes “Parker” adaptation, the only one approved by Donald Westgate (and that’s including the masterful Point Blank) is on bookshelves NOW, and there is a preview of the first twenty pages here. To reiterate what I was saying in … Continue reading
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And it WON’T be gentle.
Context is for the weak, of course, but one should identify one’s sources. Top, from the wonderful webcomic Templar, Arizona, which is eating into my writing time today. Bottom, the frame from Warren Ellis’ Ignition City 4, that got everyone … Continue reading
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One Week Later
It would have been tempting to let the dust settle. It would have been easy just to try and get a little distance, to take a breath, to allow for a pause. No. No, we shall not do that. There … Continue reading
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