Want to feel jealous in a bookish manner? Go look at Neil Gaiman’s library. The colours, the layout, the view from the windows and the mind-boggling amount of books.. I hardly ever covet anybody else’s possessions but I do covet that room.
On the topic of Neil Gaiman, people tend to assume that he is one [...]
Archives for Fandom
Why Neil Gaiman is Like a Toffee-Coated Banana
“Are You Sure It Isn’t Just Some Fanboy Thing..?”
I saw this* and then I started missing academia once more and also really, really wanted to move to London. But, you know, life isn’t so bad. Thursday I’ll be baby-sitting the Old Maiden Aunt studio as Lilith’s away, so do pop by West Kilbride if you fancy buying some lovely handpainted yarn and a [...]
Random Is the New Black
We have found more clay pipes by the Forth and Clyde Canal – here is one of the nicest pipes, if not exactly the most intact..
Notice also the rather interesting shards of china in the background. We’ve identified one piece with the Willow Pattern but the rest remain elusive. Interestingly we’ve found tiny bits with [...]
Shiny!
NASA needs your help to name Node 3 of the international space station. A short-list of names have been drawn up for your perusal .. and “Serenity” is one of the possible names.
(For the ones among you going bzuh: Serenity?)
Time for some thrilling heroics: go vote!
I Thought Turkey Was The In-Flight Meal
A family who were bound for a week’s holiday in Lanzarote are back home after a check-in desk mix-up meant they caught a flight to Turkey instead. (..) Mr Coray said they had not realised their mistake because their boarding pass stated only Bodrum airport and not that it was in Turkey.
(source)
On a vaguely [...]
Spoils
Stephen Moffat does write the best Doctor Who episodes. A planet which is one giant library? Yes, please! And that is all I will say as I do not want to give away any spoilers..
Now, as some longterm readers/friends may know, I’m absolutely obsessed by paratexts and paratextuality: tables of content, indices, illustrations, prefaces, typefaces, [...]
Twitching
Following Friday’s unfortunate stroll, I decided I should probably take things easy. What brought it home? It was possibly the fact that when I passed out on Friday, I narrowly escaped having my forehead cut open thanks to broken glass lying on the ground. This time I was lucky and as for next time .. [...]
Eliot the Fanboy
TS Eliot was a Doctor Who fan fiction writer?!
While ‘Four Quartets’ has received due attention for its literary merits, until now no critic has touched on its merits as a piece of fan fiction.
Well, I laughed.
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