So I snooped about the Freemason’s Hall my job-hunting course is taking place in during lunch break. Photos of His Majesty everywhere and lots of homemade heraldry; it’s basically Dungeons & Dragons for businessmen desperate to be part of the Establishment. I got discovered by one of the staff who told me I couldn’t venture […]
Read more "My Freemasonry Spree!"Went to see Renoir’s Umbrellas at New Walk Museum today. The first thing that struck me is the young woman has forgotten to bring her brolly. The way she looks at you it’s like she’s hoping you’ll let her hide under yours. I love the way she and the man are very detailed but the […]
Read more "Umbrellas"This was an article I wrote for Risingshadow.com back in ’22 when Pennyblade debuted. I think it still holds true today given the average fantasy reader, much as I love them, can be surprisingly conservative in an unexamined sort of way. Including the progressive ones. My upcoming novel, Pennyblade, has been getting mixed reviews in that […]
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)"Just watched G.I. Samurai (1979) in which a squadron of modern soldiers end up Japan’s Warring States period. It’s like they took every Tokyo schoolboy’s playground game and filmed it with thousands of extras. There’s something exhilarating in watching a tank blow up waves of medieval soldiers (who just keep on coming!), especially from the […]
Read more "What I’ve Been Watching: G.I. Samurai"An advert for my Feral Space sci-fi novels in an Eastercon guide (can’t quite remember when or where). The ad was written and designed by Jay Eales who totally understood the assignment. Awesome work sir!
Read more "Mind-Blast From The Past…"It struck me as something of a face saving exercise for Iran after their embassy got hit. They only used about a fifth of their drones and ordinance, announced they were going to do it and then it took a day for them to reach their targets. The Iranian dictatorship has to look strong in […]
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