On this day in 1593 Christopher Marlowe (playwright, Shakespeare’s buddy and sexy Tudor stud muffin) went for a pint in a Deptford tavern with a couple of mates. He never left that boozer, ending up dead on the floor with a knife hilt-deep in his eye. The two pals claimed Chris had kicked off over […]
Read more "Here’s To Chris"I feel like an idiot but I’ve just ran away in fright. Upper floor of my hotel is being renovated: it’s utterly empty, all the rooms lining the hallway with no doors, various crap on the floor. Basically like something from a horror game. Each night I’ve been going up there to put the washer […]
Read more "Running Away, Terrified Of Absolutely Nothing"The other day me and my dear ol’ parents visited the childhood home of Isaac Newton, Woolsthorpe Manor just on the border betwixt Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. On the way in there’s all our system’s planets in wicker (think they must have got rid of Pluto, turned it into a basket or something. Waste not want […]
Read more "A Trip To Isaac Newton’s Home"“General Lasalle, an archetypal showoff hussar officer, epitomized this attitude by his remarks, among which the most famous is: “Any hussar who is not dead by the age of thirty is a blackguard.”[21] He died at the Battle of Wagram at the age of 34.” -Wikipedia
Read more "Hmm…"Never knew there was a big witch trial in Leicester. TLDR: a highly imaginative, attention seeking boy started pointing the finger and local nabobs hoping for political position exploited it. Final result: nine women executed in the middle of the city, one dead in prison, fifteen accused (a situation on a scale with the far, […]
Read more "Leicester’s Unspoken Witch Trial"I was on a panel at Follycon this weekend (‘Defend The Indefensible’). Great time, great panelists, great audience. One of the symptoms of this group mania was the off-the-cuff creation of doodles by the panelists to make our points (such as they were). I include them here so as to augment the great body of […]
Read more "Doodles From A Follycon Panel"Follycon people: I’ll be there this weekend. I’ve the honour of being on two events on the Sunday: 3pm: Defending The Undefendable 4:30pm: The Follympics Both are fun, quiz type affairs. You may have noticed they’re right next to one another too, making them Worrad’s Crazy Cavalcade Of Whimsy. I’ve also offered to help out […]
Read more "Follycon: where I’ll be and what I’m doing…"“Britain’s first freed slave’s buried there,” Mum says as we drive by a church on the way to the dentist. “Really?” I say from the back of the car. “Some Rastafarians turned up once,” Mum says, “knocked on the vicar’s door and demanded to take him back to Ethiopia.” I presume they meant the ex-slave […]
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J.L. Worrad 