Some things need to be commemorated. I haven't been blogging for a very long time (with a lot of effort taken up by my review blog Schizopolitan which, to be honest, is going through a very quiet patch right now). But when something really important happens, I still feel like the occasion needs to be marked - and having just finished my second ( Read more... )

I really should have posted this last week, but life got rather busy and intense in a whole collection of interesting shades. Therefore, I must make a proclamation:

I have a new review blog. And it's called Schizopolitan. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and DESPAIR!!!For anyone who's still counting, that's the secret project I was working on at the ( Read more... )

It's the final curtain. 2010 has certainly been an odd and unusual year for me - it's also been a startlingly good year in ways I'd never have dreamed possible. I've achieved a lot in the last twelve months work-wise, and even if I'm still experiencing what could be described as a slow build of work, I've made progress. Landmarks like passing my ( Read more... )

( Some lengthy thoughts on the thorny subject of piracy and Bittorrent downloading (especially when it comes to TV shows), all spinning out of the new Zombie TV saga The Walking Dead... )

..............anyway ( Read more... )

I'm still here ( Read more... )

Surprise doesn't happen very often - especially in the world of movies. Even if Hollywood didn't largely deal in utter predictability these days, it'd still be relatively easy to work out the rough pattern of a particular film from the trailers, the story synopsis and various articles (as in Avatar - where it wasn't so much that the story itself ( Read more... )

Okay. Here we go, with a brief (and possible extremely random) ramble about ebooks.

( In which Sax attempts to sound like he knows what he's talking about... )

Hey. Remember me ( Read more... )

So here we are - end of the season, and I've found myself with rather mixed feelings about S5's big finale. There are certain aspects I loved, and yet there are others which I can't quite ignore. More rambling follows - and, as usual, fear the spoilers...

( 'You can do loads in twelve minutes. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath...' )