"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed." – Robert Frost
It's been far too long since I updated this or wrote something, so tonight I made myself keep to a 1000 word limit (even then I exceeded it slightly) and write something I could share. I'm not sure if this is very good or now, but still, it's good to practice. It features my favourite (late, … Continue reading FICTION: Hela’s Court
I didn't manage to finish this in time for the Monday posting slot. My bad. I wanted to write something roughly 1000 words long but this ended up expanding quite a lot and since I currently feel like a rat's ass, I couldn't finish it. I also think it needs a lot of work. Right … Continue reading FICTION: Mary’s Bones
I had the pleasure of giving Will's book a cursory glance during the writing process -- something that turned out a little embarrassing, since I had no feedback to give him other than 'wow, this is so good!' Everything considered, then, this definitely a book I can recommend. For those unfamiliar, the Black Archive is … Continue reading BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Black Archive #42: The Rings of Akhaten, by Will Shaw
Current social distancing guidelines state that everyone needs to stay two meters apart for the foreseeable future. That means that, when I say this, no one will be able to get close enough to hit me: The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie. Partially, I'm saying this not because I actually think it. … Continue reading The Last Jedi is the Best Star Wars Movie
Or: things my friends made! These are strange times. Even if you're an introvert like I am, it's amazing how much being unable to go out suddenly leaves you with a longing to just run and run and run across the field behind your parents house, into the sunset, forever and ever. Or maybe that's … Continue reading Things To Keep You Sane In Isolation
Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton died last week. I'm not interested in particularly praising or trashing his philosophy, though that won't stop me: his ideology is not one I share, his view of the world is one I reject, and his views on race, gender, and sexuality were totally awful. His philosophy was rather dull and … Continue reading Roger Scruton (1944 – 2020)
(This is the first film review for my blog: not my usual wheelhouse but for Chris Morris, I will do anything.) The Day Shall Come is a good title. It’s a statement that invites a question: which day? Cheekily, followers of Chris Morris’s work might answer ‘The Day Today’, and seen through the lens of … Continue reading FILM REVIEW: The Day Shall Come (2019, dir. Chris Morris)
I spent my summer in the most productive way possible: finishing the Herculean task of watching every still-existing Doctor Who TV story broadcast (I need to go through the missing stories but I take victories where I can get them). It occurs to me that, in a lot of ways, the story of post-war Britain … Continue reading The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
It's been an unacceptably long time since I updated anything here, so I thought since I promised fiction, I'd put here a short story I wrote a few months ago. It's a short science-fiction piece about alien skulls, extreme wealth, the inter-spatial housing crisis, and a real estate mogul obsessed with the colour gold... *** … Continue reading FICTION: Pure Image
When faced with the name Elizabeth Sandifer, any good Doctor Who fan (like me) will think of TARDIS Eruditorum, or "A Psychochronography in Blue." Often political, regularly strange and always insightful, the series of blogs from beginning to present of Doctor Who is an incredible achievement. At once, it's something of an unofficial history of … Continue reading REVIEW: Neoreaction A Basilisk (Elizabeth Sandifer, 2016, Eruditorum Press)
Time Can Be Rewritten 