TRANSFORMERS IS THE MOVIE I WAS WAITING FOR SINCE I WAS 5 AND OH, MY GOD WAS IT WORTH IT!

If you haven't seen it, go now.  Take my car.

Now I have to look forward to:

*Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
*The Simpsons
*This, whatever they're planning on calling it

...and surely they'll make another Transformers film.  Surely?

This was the dream I woke up from: I was in the south of England, probably in one of the home counties, but I don't know for sure. Aliens invaded. If anyone's read H.G Wells War of the Worlds, the tone was similar, but it was a modern setting, and they didn't have tripod fighting machines; just infantry with powerful weapons, and they had a ( Read more... )

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27/05/07
2206hrs
9lb 4oz

Welcome to our newborn, Ethan Christopher Alan Watters!  Attatched pictures feature Charlotte for scale.


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Last week Tom, Ed, and I went to see the vaguely-anticipated sequel to 28 Days Later, cleverly titled 28 Weeks Later.  For those who aren't aware, the first film was about a British outbreak of a lab-created rabies-type virus that has an incubation period of 30 seconds or less, and turns the infected person into a snarling, sprinting, bloodshot- ( Read more... )

Let's say you had access to a device that could recreate fantasies as though they were real.  There are a bunch of things you could do, like accept the university degree you never actually attained, or see what it's like to ride a free-fall nuclear weapon.  One thing I decided I would do if I ever had the chance is to change the outcome of certain ( Read more... )

One year ago today, my friend Stephanie Middleton was in a car on her way north for Agfest.  She was with Gail O'meara, a friend and student colleague of Emily's.

One week later, I attended Steph's funeral, followed the next day by Gail's.  The small chapel in Cygnet in which the service for Steph was held couldn't hope to contain the amount of ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like getting away from it all, even if it is just a few short hundred kilometres down the road.  That said, the road to Strahan is one of danger and excitement(if you go for that kind of thing).  It takes between four and five hours to cover the three hundred kilometres, if you're sticking to the speed limit, which I certainly ( Read more... )

What a day.  Ed and I were joined by Ed's girlfriend's sister Phoebe on a quest to Howden, where we sat on an embankment above a corner where we hope to see either a.) some cars doing lairy tailslides, or b.) some cars planting firmly into the earthwall, with all the usual consequences you can imagine.  We rushed to get there; it was scheduled to ( Read more... )

It's going to be a big year for cinema, as far as I'm concerned. Last night I saw Hot Fuzz , Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's latest.  I've been waiting with everyone else for his next big picture, and I wasn't disappointed.  In fact, that was one of possibly three films I will go to the cinema to see this year, and it was very possibly the best.  ( Read more... )