It’s not often you know what you’ll be doing seven years in the future

…but in the summer of 2014 I rather imagine I’ll be strolling down to Kelvingrove to watch the bowls, or heading out to Hampden to catch the athletics, or perhaps even scoping out the swimming at Tollcross. Commonwealth Games, blimey!

WFC Not

Suddenly realised that it’s World Fantasy this week in Saratoga Springs. I’m not going, but I really wish I was. Hope everyone has braw time of it. Well it looks like Mr Duncan did (like I expected him not to???)!

Halloween Fun

Carve your own pumpkin.

There was a barber and his wife…

This makes me exceptionally excited…

Stealing Light

The new book from Gary Gibson out this week from TorUK/PanMacmillan is called “Stealing Light“. According to John Berlyne’s exceptionally positive review Gary’s quickly establishing himself as a star of the “Scottish school”. Knowing Gary’s disinclination towards national appellations, I’m not sure how he’d feel about that claim. But I think it’s pretty accurate. And […]

Golden Oldies

In my teens I watched a lot of bad movies. It was the early eighties, and our family had just got our first VCR. It was a betamax, but in those days video shops stocked movies in three flavours – VHS, Beta, V2000 – so we weren’t stuck for dodgy old horror movies or low-low-budget […]

And the winner isn’t…

Well no surprises there. Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things deservedly won the Best Collection statue at the British Fantasy awards. Well done to Mr G, and to all the other winners. Especially pleased to see Gary Couzens pick up the Best Anthology award for Extended Play, which featured great stories from Phil Raines, Marion Arnott, Rosanne […]

To those who wait…

…and we’ve waited a heck of a long time. OH. FUCK. AYE. No wait, it’s even better in French.

Visions Of The Future

Courtesy of the ever-eclectic Boing-Boing, I’m totally charmed by these 1910 French lithographs depicting life in the year 2000. Probably my favourites are these marvelous armoured bicycles and this uncanny prediction of Mad Max or perhaps Death Race 2000. Wonder if those clever, clairvoyant Frenchies have managed to predict the result of tonight’s footie game […]

Bet they never got that in Yokohama

The scene : Bar Miso The time : Thursday 7th September The action : Shrimp Bento box, Kirin beer … and the marvelous musical antics of Scunner. Proper bo.