Today I've been listening to/playing with an excellent Radio 4 documentary by Naomi Alderman on Fighting Fantasy, D&D, interactive fiction, and a bunch of related stuff. There's an hour-long, linear radio version ( Read more... )

Yesterday D and I went to see a dramatic reading of The Fall of the House of Usher plus a couple of other Poe stories at the Corpus Playroom. It was done by Shedload Theatre, who specialise in dramatic readings of Poe and Lovecraft with live foley sound effects. We've seen a couple of their performances before but delightfully this time they ( Read more... )

I love traditions, presents, surprises, and endless series of small things, so I am precisely the target market for advent calendars. This year I bought a DIY one (which looks like a stack of presents - no photos as I've not found time to paint it and so it is still MDF-coloured). This fails somewhat on the surprise front, natch, but I failed to ( Read more... )