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Cthulhu Lives!

  I wrote Universal Constants, the first story in this new Lovecraftian anthology from Ghostwoods Books. “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.” At the time of his death in 1937, American horror … Continue reading

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In Praise of Trivets

I was round my parents house the other day, and we needed to put a hot pan on the table for dinner. It went onto a tablemat, so the wooden table wouldn’t get burned. I said to Dad “I wonder … Continue reading

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My Two Dads

So Man of Steel was a huge success then. There was a lot of chatter when it was first released about some of the choices the writers made in the film. Admittedly this was usually expressed in a howl of … Continue reading

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Snow Business

If you’re in the UK, odds are it’s been snowing near you for the last day or two. So yesterday, the lovely Mr James Moran challenged you to make stuff with snow. A short film. Some photography. Whatevs. Because it’s … Continue reading

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I’m talking about you, not to you.

So you might have noticed that I use Twitter a lot. For those of you who don’t, it’s a way of staying in touch while on the move. Bite-sized chunks of content, 140 characters per tweet. Originally, there was no … Continue reading

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On giving 110%

Some people (possibly the same as those that argue that Doctor Who isn’t Doctor Who’s Name or that “they” isn’t a perfectly good singular pronoun that’s been in use for centuries) have occasionally been known to argue that it’s not … Continue reading

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The Other Possessory Credit

You’ve seen them already, but you may not know what they’re called. When a movie has the credit as “A Film By” followed by a name (and it’s almost always the director’s name), that credit is known as a possessory credit. … Continue reading

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Nanna

I said goodbye to my Nanna this evening. For a significant part of the evening she thought I was called Bill, but that’s neither here nor there. Bill, I told her, was a perfectly good name, and would be just … Continue reading

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If you have any sort of interest in sex and data (and which of us doesn’t, really?), read this.

OkCupid is a dating site. It organises matches based around self-selecting data. So you’re given a bunch of questions to answer. What do I think of such-and-such? How important is the answer a potential partner gives to that question to … Continue reading

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It’s not a given…

So, there’s this TV show, right? About a character called Doctor Who. You can tell it’s about a character called “Doctor Who” because the show is called “Doctor Who” and in the credits for the first eighteen years or so, … Continue reading

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