BOOO!
YES! I'm still alive! I've just been really, really, REALLY crazy busy at work. So sorry for the lengthy radio silence. I want to post tons of stuff about fandom but have to settle with the stuff that really left a lasting impression for now, starting with Gillian's HuffPost foot in mouth AttractionGate ( wasn't it GLORIOUS?), Game of Thrones (NEW SEASON!!! Oberyn Martel, hmmmm....*blinks* What?) and all the great and often very funny stuff that is being made around it.
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I got totally hooked on Podcasts while driving to work - which almost makes up for having to let my very old and very loved BlackBerry rest in peace *sniffs*. So, yeah, new phone, which means access to apps, including Pocket Casts which is so worth the couple of quids I had to fork for it.
If you haven't been listening to Welcome to Night Vale, YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE BORN AS IT IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO RADIO SINCE ORSON WELLS' WAR OF THE WORLDS. Pure unadulterated sci-fi geek heaven, a bit like if HP Lovecraft and Stephen King built a town after Twin Peaks blueprints. Night Vale is where Mulder and Scully should retire.
THE DOG PARK WILL NOT HARM YOU.
Just saying.
What are you guys up to? What did I miss? Who's the new Ship in town?
And just because I really dig Not Literally since I found out about them (which is probably months after all of you Tumblr and Twitter kids did), I shall embed this vid as well (not the original, but I find this version better):
Dude, our dialect is becoming So Mainstream *insert insufferable world weary old fan eyeroll*
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I got totally hooked on Podcasts while driving to work - which almost makes up for having to let my very old and very loved BlackBerry rest in peace *sniffs*. So, yeah, new phone, which means access to apps, including Pocket Casts which is so worth the couple of quids I had to fork for it.
If you haven't been listening to Welcome to Night Vale, YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE BORN AS IT IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO RADIO SINCE ORSON WELLS' WAR OF THE WORLDS. Pure unadulterated sci-fi geek heaven, a bit like if HP Lovecraft and Stephen King built a town after Twin Peaks blueprints. Night Vale is where Mulder and Scully should retire.
THE DOG PARK WILL NOT HARM YOU.
Just saying.
What are you guys up to? What did I miss? Who's the new Ship in town?
And just because I really dig Not Literally since I found out about them (which is probably months after all of you Tumblr and Twitter kids did), I shall embed this vid as well (not the original, but I find this version better):
Dude, our dialect is becoming So Mainstream *insert insufferable world weary old fan eyeroll*