The English language so far lacks a word for the feeling that must be experienced by a sitcom writer who thinks they've hit the jackpot when their comedy is optioned by the BBC and who subsequently gets a 'phone call saying "We love it! We think it'll be the perfect vehicle for Will Mellor ( Read more... )

Urgf. So it's been about two years licking this book into a semblance of a final shape and holy shit I think I've just done it. Obviously there are a few more bits to do (Trim off some of the bloat - the literary equivalent of liposuction.) and some very very careful, squinty, head-ache inducing read-throughs to go before it's fit to really trouble ( Read more... )

So long Countess Dracula. The lovely Ingrid Pitt has passed away at the age of 73 and I has a case of the sads. I've always been a massive Hammer fan and Ingrid's sexy take on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Karnstein was always one of my favourites. In fact, it's probably the fault of The Vampire Lovers that the fanged lesbian bunk-up became a vampire ( Read more... )

Sure this has been linked everywhere, but God, it's fun. J.K. Rowling explains why she's not voting Tory and why she'll never be a non-dom. (Short answer - she is not a shitty excuse for a human being who can't remember what it was like to be poor even though she now has more money than God ( Read more... )

Really, television - a little less STOOPID, please? How about it? Pretty please with Schopenhauer on top ( Read more... )