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Tuppence a bag
If you look over to the right there (NB – this may not work if you are reading this in the future and the post has been piped telepathically into your brain), you’ll see there’s a link to a screenwriting forum. It’s called Feed the Birds, and is designed to be a helpful resource for […]
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The Permission Scream.
I’m finally surfacing again after doing a full-time job at the same time as producing The Just So Stories for the last couple of months. There’ll be a full update about me-me-me shortly, but in the meantime, why not feast your eyes upon the new trailer for upcoming British horror flick Stormhouse: Stormhouse is written […]
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Films I watch again and again
Tagged by Steve Turnbull, who recently made a list on his blog of films he keeps coming back to again and again. And tagged me to do the same. My list isn’t particularly deep, or clever, and isn’t even necessarily a list of films I consider great. The Third Man is missing, as are Aliens, […]
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A short primer on the British Constitution as it pertains to the current situation
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the current hung parliament. Unfortunately there’s been a lot of misinformation, even from political commentators, about the Constitution of the UK, and how that should resolve. So here’s a quick guide to the situation. You vote for a Member of Parliament You don’t vote for a party. […]
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A serious flaw with the standard SIZR model of zombie infection.
While the recent publication of When Zombies Attack! Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of Zombie Infection [1] represents a great step forward in our scientific understanding of the process of a zombie outbreak, their model posesses a flaw which must be addressed before we can truly say we understand the process of infection. Their model […]
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Here Kitty Kitty
After the success of his recent adaptation of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, m’brother Rafe has now directed a new play, Kitty and Damnation by award-winning playwright Joseph Crilly. The show opens tonight and runs until 12th September 2009, Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm.You can buy tickets via ticketweb or on the door.
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And sometimes it’s not too hard to decipher the code at all
As you may have heard, SciFi have recently taken the decision to rebrand as SyFy. Why? Well, the word SciFi (or scifi, or sci-fi) has been around since Forry Ackerman invented it in the 50s. (Most serious SF buffs don’t like the term, considering it a bit gee-whizz, and prefer, well, SF instead.) And as […]