Back in June, I’d wrapped up working on a project that’d been an absolute joy to work on - a ten part mini series for the podcast Victoria’s Lift, along with the novella version, ready for release once the series finishes. It all sort of felt like a swan song for me. I’d not really written anything you could loosely term horror in a while and, as much as Victoria’s story had featured moments of nightmare, it felt closer to fantasy to me. There was also something in the act of writing it which made me believe I was ready to tackle a novel length story again…
Read MoreOkay, I don’t do this very often. I really don’t. There was a time when I wrote reviews of every movie I went to see. Not for this for website, though. Not for anyone. I wrote them for me. For no reason at all, really. Spot the only child.
This is was back when I used to stick every cinema ticket to my bedroom wall. Which took a lot of blue tack and left a lot of holes when I moved out of my parents’ house.
Anyway, this weekend, I managed to watch a few movies, so I thought why not share my findings with the rest of the class.
Read MoreBack in the early 80s, when I was knee high to most of the population, two unrelated events occurred across my relations. My aunt bought my cousin a small, white, plain desk as part of a plan to redecorate his bedroom. Meanwhile one of my uncles, living down south, continued to collect comics. In particular, 2000 A.D.
Read MoreI had a plan. Or the start of a plan. Or the start of a number of plans, to start with. I guess all the planning really started last year. Last year was definitely a year for starting things and then changing course. For so many reasons. One of which, I’m going to do my best not to name here, because there are far more informed places to discuss that subject.
Read MoreI’m not posting this anywhere. I’m not promoting this (ha, ha) anywhere. I’m just putting this blog up on my site to see if anyone notices it.
You can’t be surprised if this sounds needy or egotistical. It’s a blog!
Read MoreThere are two types of people in the world and they’re living in your head. They vary depending on the person they’re inside. If you’re trying to stay healthy, then one person will definitely being trying to convince you to keep on the diet, whilst the other one is saying surely you’ve been good for long enough to earn at least one treat. If you’re trying to focus on getting something done then you know one of those people in your head is going to be telling you that there’s no harm in taking just one little night off.
Read MoreNever mind. I don’t want to talk about DC. If I get onto DC, then I’ll have to talk about Marvel and how they’re going to ruin the MCU just by continuing to play the odds. They could have taken a step back with Endgame. It was a solid ending, it gave everything they’d been spinning together an arc. But, no, now it’s TV tie ins and cartoons and it won’t last. It can’t last. None of this can last. It’s going to reach a point where comic book movies become a joke.
Read MoreHeat warps the human being. It can buckles them, slows their step. Halts their ability to sleep. It shortens their fuse to only trigger finger fast reactions and causes a strange sort of cannibalistic pack mentality. Take the British, for the example. A country swarming with people who act as babbling thermometers. They wander into shops or homes or offices and declare ‘isn’t it hot?’ or ‘blimey, it’s freezing in here’. They check the weather reports like they’ve been handed the lottery results. These are people who, once gun ownership is made legal here, will spend their lunchtimes patrolling their offices and hunting down anyone who dared to fiddle with the air conditioning without first seeking their bloated, withholding say so.
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