Word, Dog

A date for yer diary, should you be interested in this sort of thing.Wednesday 24th January, 8.30pm 13th Note, King Street, Glasgow Word Dogs : Cry Havoc! An explosive evening of high-octane fiction readings on the subject of conflict, war, ruckuses, barneys and gentlemen’s boxing brought to you by Word Dogs, the exhibitionist arm of […]

Beggars Belief

How is it even possible that anyone thought that this was a good idea, let alone neglected to take medical advice about it. Me, though, I don’t really blame the idiot radio station, or the half-wits that entered the competition. I blame the Nintendo marketing geniuses that came up with product name in the first […]

It’s a Swizz!

So, that’s the holiday break almost over. I’ve got a couple of days yet til I go back to work, but as one of them will be spent having root treatment at the dentist, it doesn’t really count. As you’ll have gathered it’s not been the most healthy or productive of breaks, but even so […]

Humbug!

How’s your Christmas going? Probably better than mine, I imagine. We had a cracking couple of days out at my folks’ place, but since the minute we got home I’ve been laid flat out with a bastard of a lurgie. All those marvellous Xmas goodies? No appetite and couldn’t taste them even if I did. […]

Late Entry In The Race For The Top Of The Christma…

Nae luck, Leona. Here comes Scunner, Bearing Gifts.And here’s the live performance. Pardon my idiom, but I fucking love these guys.

Whether the weather

I don’t normally complain about the weather. Living in Glasgow there’s no point, it’s one of the givens of life. Every day you get weather. Sometimes three or four sorts. And I don’t normally get the November blues either, when the nights fair draw in and you go to work in the dark and you […]

Remix

It seems the video mash-up (cf the marvelous ThriftShop XL) has evolved a level of sophistication. Re-cut movie trailers that completely change the meaning of the film. I was much taken by the recent BoingBoing entry on Mary Poppins as a horror movie, but my favourite is probably this one. If anyone knows of any […]

Rarities

There’s something that happens so occasionally in my world that you almost forget about it entirely. Almost. Not quite. Because, like a cosmological event, when it does come round it leaves a long blazing mark in the memory, and a hook of hope that you’ll see it, one day, again. What am I talking about? […]

Pirate Memory Games

Warning: this post contains half-baked and undigested ideas. Feel free to argue with or ignore as you will. So, it seems the whole world is writing Pirate stories. I know of at least five GSFWC members who claim to have signed up for passage (Mr Duncan has of course already completed his, plus landed a […]

Like I’ve Never Been Away

But I have been, see? It’s just that between the close of the working day one Tuesday evening and rolling back into the office another Wednesday morning, the last week at World Fantasy seems like such a seamless splice into my life that already I’m wondering if it happened or if it was just some […]