July 13th, 2008
AbeBooks have quite a unique item listed for sale right now: A first edition paperback of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, plus Douglas Adams’ typewriter.
[The typewriter] bears an anti-apartheid sticker on one side of the object and is boldly signed across the front casing by Adams in his unmistakeable hand. It comes housed in [...]
February 21st, 2008
Tea & Podcasts yesterday announced it is shutting down in a month. This is the last dedicated UK podcasting forum which means the only way to openly connect with other producers now falls into the (cringe) social network space.
The two that currently exist - but knowing social networks, I’ll bet others spring up to dilute [...]
November 4th, 2007
Research time… Table Rappers takes place around the first few years of the 20th Century: the Edwardian period. One of the main characters is a member of the Metropolitan Police. Although these stories were never intended to be particularly detailed historically, a certain amount of accuracy, such as when fingerprints were first used for example, [...]
September 7th, 2007
In recent weeks at home we have been catching up on past episodes of Coast: a BBC series (just completed series 3) which highlights areas of interest - that means pretty much every inch - of Britain’s coastline.
Scene after scene I spot places I’ve been to growing up but have forgotten, and Jen spots countless [...]
September 10th, 2006
From those quiet days of standup comedy…
“So how do you think that went?” &
“Don’t take it too personally”
Matt Blaize following my worst gig ever at GSOH, Cranleigh.
“Oh really? What are you doing, like… what sort of stuff?”
Ross Noble after being ambushed in the Pleasance courtyard. Perhaps he thought I was stealing his stuff.
“If [...]
August 6th, 2006
Brought to you this time with help from Übercaster - and not entirely smoothly.
Now with added Podshow
Rant all about small-minded, bitchy podcasters
PIN card purchases and inhuman interactions
History Lesson Part 1: The Magna Carta and no more bloody holidays
History Lesson Part 2: the Doomsday Book is Dan Browns next novel
Unaccustomed to beer and the body reacts
Übercaster [...]