Myself and fellow Digital Fix TV blogger Luciano team up to cover the new season 6 of Dexter, starting tonight on FX in the UK.
My review of the Being Human finale on Dork Adore. Featuring spoilers and, yes, a certain intolerable smugness.
It's a whole lot of endings this weekend, as The Walking Dead season 2 concludes as well. Review of the carnage on Dork Adore.
The final Being Human preview of the year on The Digital Fix, in which I try to avoid spoiling the finale, so end up rambling about salad instead.
Friday short story time: "Time-Lapsed"
This week’s Friday story has a reason behind it, which you’ll already know if you’ve been following me on Twitter this week.
But for anyone who doesn’t (or just doesn’t pay attention): as an exercise for my creative writing MA this week, we all wrote pieces outside our usual styles, left our names off them, they were shuffled and handed out, then we each read one out and everyone had to guess who wrote it.
So what do I write when trying not to sound like me? Well, here it is. And I’m proud to say no-one guessed it was mine at all.
(Although a couple of people tried to imitate me by including bodily fluids or plot twists to throw others off their scent. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, isn’t it?)
But for anyone who doesn’t (or just doesn’t pay attention): as an exercise for my creative writing MA this week, we all wrote pieces outside our usual styles, left our names off them, they were shuffled and handed out, then we each read one out and everyone had to guess who wrote it.
So what do I write when trying not to sound like me? Well, here it is. And I’m proud to say no-one guessed it was mine at all.
(Although a couple of people tried to imitate me by including bodily fluids or plot twists to throw others off their scent. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, isn’t it?)
Goldfish! Online anthology for my MA course!
Link: Goldfish! Online anthology for my MA course!
Lots of good work up here, including my short story “The Introvert” in the Short Fiction section. Here’s a permanent link to that, but do go to the proper homepage above and check out some other people’s work, there’s some talent on there.
If nothing else, I did all the pasting of work onto the site and someone else needs to look at it.
Lots of good work up here, including my short story “The Introvert” in the Short Fiction section. Here’s a permanent link to that, but do go to the proper homepage above and check out some other people’s work, there’s some talent on there.
If nothing else, I did all the pasting of work onto the site and someone else needs to look at it.
A final review of Dirk Gently series 1 on The Digital Fix. Was it as good as the start of the series?
Penultimate Being Human review on Dork Adore! Including ending predictions and very mild spoilers. Wow.
New spoiler-free Being Human preview on The Digital Fix. Penultimate episode, complete with handy hints.
Friday short story time: "Backgammon: The Movie"
Today’s Friday story is about, well, backgammon. Basically, I’ve been bemused for a while by the need for a movie about the old board game Battleships. (Or “Battleship” if you’re American, and yes, they’re really doing that. It has Rihanna in it.)So I thought, this must be suitable for some cheap satire. What’s another game that features almost no actual plot whatsoever that I can nail a story on to?
Well, I may not have quite found a part for Rihanna, but I think backgammon is the one nonetheless. For those unfamiliar, a backgammon board looks like the nearby picture. It features two sets of counters trying to move past each other on the big triangles.
I know what you’re thinking, sounds ripe for big screen adaptation, doesn’t it? Hollywood agents, form an orderly queue.
A glance at season 8 of House for The Digital Fix, including predictions for the upcoming series finale. How exciting!
New Walking Dead review on Dork Adore. Spoilers and farm-sitting. Some zombies. Well, one zombie.
Link: New Walking Dead review on Dork Adore. Spoilers and farm-sitting. Some zombies. Well, one zombie.
New post on Dork Adore, in which I suggest some alternatives to Sherlock, for anyone getting withdrawal.
This weekend's Being Human episode, previewed without spoilers on The Digital Fix. Contains romance and stuff.
Today for The Digital Fix, I glance at the debut of The Sarah Millican Television Programme. It's a television programme featuring Sarah Millican, just to clarify.
Preview of tonight's Dirk Gently return now up on The Digital Fix. If you're in the market for a holistic con-man version of Sherlock, this is your guy.
New Being Human review on Dork Adore, as I wait hopefully to see if it's better than last week.
Link: New Being Human review on Dork Adore, as I wait hopefully to see if it's better than last week.
Preview of the upcoming Being Human episode on The Digital Fix, including the return of Adam the Teen Vampire. Is it an improvement on last week?
Friday short story time: "Astronauts Beyond Space!"
Finally had time to do another Friday story, and thought I’d try for something a bit cheerier, since the last three included a story about internet misery, a sequel to that one and another called “Ready Salted Failure”.
So it’s time for a jolly adventure involving astronauts and a few off-colour jokes. And maybe a slight sense of end-of-an-era poignancy, but I can’t be serious all the time.
Time for lift-off!
So it’s time for a jolly adventure involving astronauts and a few off-colour jokes. And maybe a slight sense of end-of-an-era poignancy, but I can’t be serious all the time.
Time for lift-off!
