Terry Pratchett is suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. This isn't exactly news since he announced this publicly in December. However he's still battling against it, and he recently made this speech in which he dedicated a million dollars towards Alzheimer’s research.

And now Pat Cadigan has instigated the fans response - the aim to try and match ( Read more... )

Saturday was Pirate Night with Rock Soc, so I donned my bandana and sword and headed to the k-bar to rape, pilage and plunder get rather drunk on Cubans.


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So far, this has been a really good weekend ( Read more... )

I love fairy tales. Seriously, The Tale is the ultimate module to study. This week we've been studying the Grimms Brothers's and also Bettelheim's interpretation in Uses of Enchantment. I completely geeked out, the Grimms fairy tales were the stories I grew up reading - that and Hans Christian Anderson - non of your disney rubbish please ( Read more... )

I have the soundtrack to Sweeney Todd stuck in my head. Like... the entire soundtrack. This is probably due to the fact that I went to see it at the cinema tonight. And it was marvellous and all that can be desired of a Tim Burton film starring 3 of my favourite actors ( Read more... )

Currently I'm completely swamped by my work overload, 3 essays to write plus a lot of reading. So I'm dealing with it in the obvious way, that is, by not doing it ( Read more... )