Just thought I’d experiment a little bit with another poetic form: the palindrome. It’s very hard to get it right and to make sure that the second half makes sense. Quite happy with this for a first attempt, though. Agony is freedom, And lodges fill spirits As darkness pulls light away, Longer no kindness can […]
Read more "The Lodge Palindrome – a poem"This is the last of these posts that I’m going to dedicate to my favourite bands for the time being. I’m going to move back to doing a particular piece of music each week. The last entry I’m going to do isn’t actually a band at all. I’m going back to the USA to talk […]
Read more "Monday Music 5 – 2018"Hi everyone, I woke up at 4am to find out that I’d won something for my writing for the first time EVER. As you can imagine, I’m overjoyed. You can see the details and read my winning entry by following the link below. (Beware, the entry deals with troubling issues that some may find disturbing). […]
Read more "Yay, I’m a prize-winning writer!!!"I was going to save these until Saturday, but then I saw that it was Kyle Maclachlan’s birthday today, so I thought I’d move it up the list a little. Following on from my poem, A Sonnet for Laura Palmer the other day, I decided to keep on going and write another one; this time about […]
Read more "Two Coopers – Two Sonnets"I missed a couple of weeks due to various things, but I’m back with the next in my journey through some of my favourite bands. I came back to Britain last time, and I’m staying there, going north to Scotland to talk about… Big Country Big Country were formed in Dunfermline in 1981 by Stuart Adamson […]
Read more "Monday Music 4 – 2018"Hi everyone, This is my 200th post so I wanted to do something a little out of the ordinary to mark the occasion. Since I started the website I’ve written about lots of different things from my book to my life to Blake’s 7 and other science fiction stuff and about Twin Peaks. Someone’s editing […]
Read more "A Sonnet for Laura Palmer"Hello again, Just a quick one but it’s been almost a month since I did the last update on my progress through Mass Effect Andromeda. I’ve also discovered that I can take screenshots on my Xbox and upload them to my Hotmail account. To be honest, I haven’t made much progress in the single-player campaign. […]
Read more "The Andromeda Experience – 4"Now that I’ve been through all the Joss Whedon shows that I’m going to do, I think it’s time to move on to this. I remember watching and enjoying the original series when I was much younger and I can’t remember what drew me to this rebooted version. I wasn’t a massive fan of the […]
Read more "My Top 10 Battlestar Galactica episodes"Having done Buffy and Angel, it seemed fitting that I should complete the set by running down my favourite Firefly episodes. As there are so few, and they’re all so good, it seemed silly to cut any off the list. I did 15 Doctor Who stories after all, so why not do 15 Firefly episodes. […]
Read more "All the Firefly episodes and Serenity ranked from ‘shiny’ to ‘shiniest’"A very big change of pace from the previous three entries – this week I’m coming back to the UK to bring you – The Prodigy I first heard The Prodigy, who were formed in Braintree in 1990 by keyboard player and songwriter Liam Howlett, through my best friend after I moved down to the […]
Read more "Monday Music 3 – 2018"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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