HOTEL LASER DUEL

Only just discovered that if I hold my autoclock wand (the thingy I use to prove I’ve walked around the hotel where I work) like this it makes a convincing gun from a 70’s BBC sci-fi drama. My hourly corridor checks have just got AWESOME!!! UPDATE: Facebook chum Dan Gilbert has created this simulation of […]

This circle of trees on a traffic island brought a hint of ancient pagan ritual to the double glazing and metal bus shelter environs of the Danes Hill estate. Last night, two of these five sisters fell after who knows how long they stood. I just hope they weren’t keeping some dark force trapped within […]

Life Goals

(Worrad, er, fan art(?) by Richard Price, Jay Eales and Andrew Page)

MicroRant: E-Cigs And The News

E-cigarettes exploding/burning: have you noticed that in all the news articles, whether print or online, the make of e-cig is never mentioned? Any other product and the brand is the focus, and rightly so: the buying public should have that knowledge so as to make choices. But not e-cigs. One e-cig blows up and it’s […]

MicroRant: Misrepresentin’ Cthulhu Blues

This has long been a bugbear of mine. The Internet has made Cthulhu a bad guy set upon conquering humanity, a monster intent on evil like Dracula or Skeletor. That was never HP Lovecraft’s vision. Cthulhu has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware we exist. When it arises from […]

90’s Hangover Fun

My brothers got me a plaid shirt and a Subpop beanie. Thanks, guys! Ah, the nineties. Before the dark times. Before Twitter.

Guest Blog: Tacitus: On The Life And Death Of Petronius

Petronius deserves a word in retrospect. He was a man who passed his days in sleep, his nights in the ordinary duties and recreations of life: others had achieved greatness by the sweat of their brows— Petronius idled into fame. Unlike most who walk the road to ruin, he was never regarded as either debauchee […]

I envy my dad’s generation. They bought a piece of technology and it was essentially a tool. Now you buy a piece of technology and it’s an ‘experience’. It’s got a ‘community’ of users. The company making it keep trying to be your mate all the time. Black & Decker and Triumph Motorcycles never tried […]

Found out something that cheered me up no end. The modern Library Of Alexandria has 30 million books, as many were in the Ancient library before it was destroyed. But it gets better: at the heart of the modern library are a heck-ton of state-of-the-art servers encased in steel. Every hour they collect and store […]

The Georgia Guidestones Enigma

In 1979 a man walked into a stonemason’s office and said he represented an anonymous group of ‘loyal Americans’. Long story short, he had a monument built on a remote hill in Georgia. Carved onto the stones are what appear to be instructions for building some future civilisation, written in eight modern languages and ancient […]

J.L. Worrad

Fantasy And Science Fiction Author