by Neil | May 30, 2011 | Film, Movies, Review
It seems like an age since I went to the cinema and so yesterday I trekked off to Greenwich to see Thor. Branagh’s take on the Marvel comic begins with Odin’s defeat of the Frost Giants in a difficult, at times clunky, prologue to the main action held...
by Neil | May 27, 2011 | Music, Video
Too tired for proper blogging tonight. Here’s some cheesy fun instead: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDETEPYS3Hs] And they’re back. Glory be.
by Neil | May 26, 2011 | Diary, Writing
Ideas can flash from anywhere. I mentioned before that I was blocked on the idea front for a while and my relief that these are now starting to bubble up again. Thing about ideas is that you can’t control when they occur but that moment of clarity that it is a) an...
by Neil | May 25, 2011 | Personal
There are books that make writing fiction (or writing anything) sound like a deep and mysterious art practiced by a higher form of intellectual being. Frequently, such material is written by someone you have never heard of with a handful of credits from a list of...
by Neil | May 20, 2011 | Comment, Diary, London
Social media bleeds into meatspace far too often in London. Try as I do, I still fall foul of the repeated error, usually on my way into work half asleep, of seeing people I know through either twitter or blogging and reacting as if I know them in the real world when...
