According to gender stereotypes, I am such a guy right now. “Look I found a cool video the internet, therefore you all must watch!” Apparently doing that’s a guy thing. And now I’m going to discuss cars. I said last week that watching the Top Gear presenters try to make a convertible people carrier was one of the funniest things I’d seen on TV. ( Read more... )

1. If you use a plot device such as ghosts, figments of the imagination, or a rogue metamorphmagus etc to externalise a characters internal conflict, can a writer still call the conflict internal ( Read more... )

I cannot believe I have managed to live 21 years of life without having seen Brazil. That is until today and it’s an awesome movie. For those who may not have seen it, it’s 1984 with crazy heating pipe repairman, dream sequences and jokes about consumerism and plastic surgery. And it has Michael Palin, who I heart and since I didn’t notice that it ( Read more... )