Wheely Good Fun

I’ve spent the past week sub-editing on Procycling Magazine, which is somewhat ironic when you consider the fact that I haven’t ridden a bike since I was eight years old and didn’t even know what Lance Armstrong looked like until seven days ago. Now, however, I know what a peloton is, which team Armstrong rides [...]

Twitter…

Quick note: I succumbed to pressure and joined Twitter. Find me here: twitter.com/kakapojayne.  I really don’t like Twitter – it’s ugly, it’s clunky, it keeps saying “Too Many Tweets!” and breaking, but what the hell. If Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman and the frankly bloody hilarious Misha Collins are all there, I might as well join [...]

Terminator Salvation

I love that rattly-clangy metallic bashing noise that makes up the music of Terminator. I saw Terminator Salvation last night and every time it popped up – which wasn’t often, mind you, only in moments of great impact – all the hairs on my neck stood on end. That “ba-da, da BA-DA!” sound makes me [...]

Hey now, little mouse…

I’m addicted to The Ridiculant website, an internet round-up of all the cool/silly/scary stuff currently going down a storm on this big giant thing we call the interweb. They’re sarcastic, they’re funny and they have great taste, unlike so many of us (sigh).
Their latest post is this curious remix song – courtesy of an artist [...]

Fade To White…

[No spoilers here, peeps!]
This is the most stressful fortnight of my year.
Not because I’ve been sub-editing on two different magazines. Not because I have to write a 3,000 word, research-heavy feature for Total Film by Monday morning (I should be doing that now, actually… oops). Not because I have no food in the house and [...]

Popular With Google, Apparently

The cool thing about WordPress is that it lets you know how people have stumbled onto your blog via internet searches and suchlike.
Because of this, I know that yesterday 30 people Googled “Wolverine” and ended up here.
Eleven people searched for “George Clooney” and found me. Similarly, two people Googled “George Clooney bum” and arrived here, [...]

Talking Over The Asylum

I spent most of yesterday sitting at a table in a bar in central London and discussing Supernatural with a (thankfully) lovely bunch of ladies from the SFX forum, who I’ll be seeing again in a couple of weeks at the Asylum convention in Birmingham.
We didn’t know each other beforehand and there was a faint [...]

Drinks, anyone?

Two posts in one day! …Mainly because I forgot to mention something in my last one.
So I’m heading off to Asylum at the end of this month – no, not that kind of asylum; I mean the big Supernatural convention taking place in Birmingham. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a con and [...]

Vampires, Stop-Motion Fish and Japanese Kitty Kats

Okay, for those of you who asked: my James Marsters interview (and a very long one, at that – we chatted for an hour, which was very generous of him!) will be appearing in the SFX Vampire Special, out in all good stores in early June. It’s looking like a good Special and, as we [...]

Coincidences

The funny thing about being a freelance journalist/sub-editor is that you never quite know where your next job will come from.
You’ve got your regular gigs, such as the six days a month I work on DVD & Blu-ray Review magazine, which I’ve been lucky enough to have for over two years now. And there are [...]