I've been listening to the Collings and Herrin podcast since its beginning – I've been reading the blogs of Andrew Collins and Richard Herring (the name of the podcast is a deliberate joke on their part) for a while now as well – and enjoying their unedited chat, which seems…
Some unrelated recent incidents got me thinking about the nature of narratives and plot structure in life. Which I will tell you about in a rambling post, so apologies in advance. Sunday evening, I had a crippling headache come out of nowhere and knock me out. It was so bad…
Coming to the trendy things fashionably late, I have been listening to lot of podcasts recently. And I thought I’d chat about some of them. It started with Smodcast – the fairly regular podcast from Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier (hence the name), who chat about … stuff. It started…
Transformers was robbed! Ahem. So, the 2008 Academy Awards have been revealed – and we have had a good yield for a good year. The Coens got the Oscars they deserved, even if they did it to spite my prediction of the Academy splitting the director/best film. Daniel Day-Lewis and…
So, having your girlfriend have an emergency appendectomy when you visit your parents in Ireland really gets in the way of blogging. Not much time for writing content when you're a nurse. It means that I haven't had the chance to buy the first issue of the new ClanDestine series…
The Oscar nominations have been announced and, seeing as I haven’t seen any of the films in the major categories (except Sweeney Todd – review upcoming), I think I am overqualified as a blogger to weigh in with my uninformed opinions. Best motion picture of the year Atonement, Juno, Michael…
I’m sure there are many other posts of a similar nature to this one – resolving to blog more frequently and talking about why the previous timeframe was devoid of regular posting – but that doesn’t stop me from doing it as well. One tries to be an innovator, but…
And I’m back. The reason for my absence was a lovely holiday in China, which I won’t be blogging about. I wrote copious notes but don’t feel that this blog is a travelogue, nor that I am capable of writing it up in an interesting way. I may change my…
I never thought I would see Tim O'Neill answer the question of 'who is stronger?' so central to Marvel zombies, but he provides clear and sensible answers to the eternal problem. Most bizarre, and definitive. Dave Campbell has posted online the first issue of the new comic he has written…
Because I always feel that San Diego is so very far away and that I will never attend the Comic-Con, I don’t talk about the many, many, many items that come out of there each year (for full details, look at the index at CBR). Anyway, it’s not as if…