Being There

Early tomorrow morning I’m hopping on a train for Manchester. When I get there I will meet up with my brother and we will take part in something that hasn’t happened since we were both very wee indeed. No, we don’t have a ticket for the game. Yes, we will be two of the estimated […]

Watenaccio

I asked a friend the other week: “How would you feel if you were told your team would win a major European trophy, but that they’d be remembered – even despised – throughout the continent as the most negative team ever to do so, your name synonymous with defensiveness for a generation or more to […]

It lives…again!

The print edition of The Ephemera’s pretty much impossible to get hold of now, but if you missed it don’t fret. By the miracle of modern technology, you can now download it as an e-book from Fictionwise. I’ve mentioned before that I’m interested in seeing how the e-book market develops, so I’m treating this as […]

Time for Tromolo

One of my favourite things to do over the last few years, of a spare evening, say, is amble down for a few hours of the unexpected and the entertaining at Club Tromolo. Tromolo’s pretty much a unique combination of music, performance and comedy. Many’s the night I have [almost] LITERALLY weed myself at the […]

End of The Month

A word in passing about a great Glasgow institution. Last night’s End Of The Month Club was just full of good things. For those of you new to this blog, EOTMC is a monthly club night in the 13th Note that celebrates those that have left us during the month via the medium of electro […]

Squidpunk!

In which the Vandermeers’ seeming boundless energy, creativity and inventiveness that has brought the world so many neat anthologies in recent times (Steampunk / The New Weird / FastShips, Black Sails) finally made them jump the shark…erm, squid. I hear they’ve even got Margaret Atwood writing a squid-in-space piece. Can’t wait!

Post-orbital

So Eastercon has been and gone once again in an other-worldly flash. I’m not going to do a con report – there wouldn’t be any point because I didn’t do much except talk to people – but here are ten impressions that have managed to persist through the haze of alcohol and sleep deprivation. 1/ […]

I Know This World Is Killing You

Alison by Andrew Humphrey is the long awaited first venture in ages** into novel publishing by TTA Press. It finally hit the streets in February and my copy arrived at the weekend. Now, I don’t have a lot of time for reading at the moment, but whenever I get a new book I can never […]

Caught by The Wibberleys

Yes, I know it sounds like something that would happen to Baldrick in Blackadder, but it actually happened to me. Just yesterday evening. And I loved it. Last night was a GSFWC night, and as I’d a/ a couple of hours to fill and b/ written my requisite 500 words for the day I decided […]

Diary Dates

Creeping out of winter hibernation this week to actually go out and do some performing, if anyone fancies an evening’s entertainment, here’s a couple of suggestions: Monday 4th – Spangled Cabaret launch, an evening of variety, burlesque, puppetry, and a whole bunch else, featuring: Rufus T.Farenheit & Lucille Burn/Miss Leggy Pee/Daiquiri Dusk/Markee/Little Red Fairy/Nicola Siix/Vendetta […]