Tomorrow I’m off to the English L’Abri community in Greatham, Hampshire for their now annual film festival, Twenty-Four Frames per Second, a weekend of film, lectures and discussion about film. The films include The Lives of Others (2007, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), The Great Dictator (1940, dir. Charlie Chaplain), Grizzly Man (2006, dir. Werner […]
Clubbing is one of those supposedly ubiquitous student activities along with drunken traffic cone antics, watching Neighbours and leaving all your work until the last minute, though I managed to largely avoid it. Personally, I prefer social activities where you can interact with people on a more meaningful level than bellowing over music while doing […]
I listen to a lot of talks, lectures, sermons, podcasts and stuff on my mp3 player, so I was very annoyed when it stopped working a couple of months ago. Yesterday, I finally got it back in working order having sent it to be repaired, so I went online and downloaded around 50 mp3s to […]
I’m still busy enjoying the buzz of being a newly published author, but details of the book containing my next short story are now online! Once again, it’s an anthology of Doctor Who stories published by Big Finish. Short Trips: Indefinable Magic takes the magical and fantastic as its theme. Edited by Neil Corry, it […]
Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life, a collection of brand new Doctor Who short stories published by Big Finish is now available, and it includes The Shopping Trolleys of Doom – my very first piece of professionally published fiction! The theme of the collection is people’s lives who have been changed by the […]
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border has been getting a lot of attention as scientists prepare to smash particles into each other in an attempt to learn the secrets of the early universe and understand better the nature of matter itself. All very exciting, and unsurprisingly, the project is very attractive to science […]
My friend Dave works at the Western Mail, which means that when they run a story on Doctor Who, I sometimes get a phone call if they want a quote from a fan. Last week I was asked my opinion about the Doctor Who Exhibition being expanded, including the addition of more Daleks, and was […]
There’s an interesting article on Yahoo News about People Who Live Without TV (shock! horror!). I’m not too fussed about having a television. As long as I’m able to watch Doctor Who round with friends or online via the BBC iPlayer, there’s not much television I’d really miss. My techno-addiction is the Internet rather than […]
I had a look at the blog’s visitor statistics, and noticed that I’d got a slight bump in hits from one particular site. Investigating further, I found that someone had linked to my post on Fantasy and Imagination from The Comics Journal Message Board, where a very interesting and articulate discussion on Making Superheroes “Mature” […]
The modern person is in the grip of a new psychological consciousness – one that is extremely pre-occupied with the self. We have become a culture of Narcissism. So says Andrew Fellows in his paper “The Culture of Narcissism“, which can be downloaded from the L’Abri website. He also has a series of four lectures […]
