Death By Chocolate

Just wanted to share an email I received this morning from my friend Andy Watt:
“i’m watching one of those awful greedy c**t property developer, homes under the hammer shows, theres a couple that have just bought an old unused chapel, no garden, but it does have a massive graveyard outside the front door. the woman [...]

Face Off

Good lord. I’ve been a member of Facebook for about three weeks now and I swear it’s the online equivalent of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. I can’t BELIEVE how many people have signed up/friended/messaged/poked me in the last week. (NB: when I say “poked”, it’s not rude – just a Facebook function.) It’s as [...]

I always wanted to travel the world…

I just appeared on over 282 million television sets.
Alright, so perhaps not all of them were turned on. And many were sitting in hotel rooms in far-flung corners of the globe, probably being ignored by travellers more interested in buying pay-per-view porn.
But still… 282 million. That’s pretty impressive, isn’t it?
It was all thanks to [...]

A Word From Joss Whedon

Everybody should read this. And everybody needs to look at the sky.
Let’s Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death

Things to say "hello" to…

My friend Natalie had a beautiful baby girl a few days ago. My friend Liz had a baby boy. Young Sureyya and young Freddie are no doubt destined to grow up and fall in love. Fate has decreed it so!
Congratulations to both families – and may your new offspring live long and happy lives!
Not quite [...]

Because you can never have enough pictures of Nathan Fillion…

Okay, sorry to bore anyone out there who really doesn’t care about Nathan Fillion, but I wanted to share this picture of myself and Dave Bradley – editor of SFX magazine – shamelessly gatecrashing my friend Mandeep’s photo with him:

And… that’s quite enough of The Fillion now.

I’d like a new heart now, please

[No spoilers here!]Just saw the season two finale of Supernatural: an episode named, not inappropriately, “All Hell Breaks Loose”, although in my case it could just as easily have been called “Let’s Rip Jayne’s Heart Out And Stomp On It Quite A Lot”.
Man, that made me blub. And smile. And realise Supernatural is my [...]

Shameless Photo Opportunity

I don’t know what I love more about this pic: the fact that Nathan Fillion decided to go for “freaky” rather than “hunky”, or the fact that he manages to look hunky regardless.
And how come he’s three feet taller than me?

Photo credit: Fantasy Photography by www.vitalattractions.co.uk 0151 726 9538

Pic’n'Mix

Phew! Well, I haven’t quite hit the 2,000 words I was supposed to write today but I’ve done enough, not to mention writing an extra review on top that isn’t due until next week, so I’m feeling a little smug now. Yay me!
So, to celebrate that – and also the fact that the SFX [...]

The Art Of Procrastination

I have 2,000 words to write for Monday night. I’m not free tomorrow (I’m spending the day at Sci Fi London, if anyone reading this is going too and wants to say hi). This means I have only a day and a half to finish my work. I can’t miss my deadline, I need to [...]