This really is a masterpiece of science fiction. As well as being astonishingly prolific the author has an astounding imagination as big as the planet of Majipoor itself. We open on a pastoral scene with our hero having nothing of himself other than his name. He becomes a travelling juggler (inspiring me to pick up my own juggling balls again) and from that small beginning attempts to regain the stolen throne, a task that involves travelling across most of the vast landmasses of the giant…

By my count there are at least three "Heated Rivalry" musical parodies on at the Fringe this year. The zeitgeist skates to where the puck was six months ago, I guess! There's also a live version of a HR podcast if you just can't get enough of their wacky ice-capades. Just how much sexy-hockey can one city take? Produced by Quick and Funny Musicals, an American company specialising in cash-ins loving homages, this is surprisingly good! With songs like "Fuck Him Up The Butt (Metaphorically)" it…

Beseelt. Das ist das Wort, das es am besten trifft und das J und ich auch immer wieder benutzen, wenn wir uns auf dem Rückweg von irgendwelchen Kreativ-Events befinden oder bei einem Kaltgetränk noch etwas deflaten. Wir saßen eben noch im RB zurück von Wuppertal nach Köln und waren also wieder beseelt. Von Wuppertal mit seinen überraschend schönen Bauten und der Schwebebahn, vom queeren Zentrum Inside:out, vom Austausch mit den anderen Zinestern und vom untrüglichen Gefühl, das gemeinsames…

I recently realized I have not properly detailed all the film locations associated with new Fat Trout Trailer Park from Twin Peaks: The Return. The original Fat Trout from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was demolished by February 2011 following multiple flooding incidents from the nearby Snoqualmie River. The relocated trailer park is found just... The post Twin Peaks Location – Mickey and Carl Rodd’s Ride Into Town appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this time, we’ve got three Season 6-era stories and one yarn from Season 4 – and one of the Season 6 stories is the Second Doctor’s first outing in the Lost Stories. Tune in, gang, as we take in a strong candidate for the worst Doctor Who story in any medium. Echoes of Grey It’s some 40 years since the…

I haven’t seen Jane Schoenbrun’s other movies, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, but I thought I had a fairly accurate high-level idea of what they were. Art film horror. Heavily influenced by online culture and queer society, but almost certainly humorless and dripping with self-serious pretentiousness. So I’m happy to say that whether I’m right about those movies or completely off-base, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is silly and funny as hell. It pulls off the…

Two articles have popped up in the wake of Cyan's fandom-rattling pitch reel for Anglerfish. To recap from last week: Anglerfish was the Myst-universe project that Cyan started prototyping in 2024. They teased it as "PREFALL" because it was set in the golden age (and Age) of the cryptic D'ni civilization, centuries before Atrus and his family. Damreus's desk has the shape of his Guild symbol, a Writer's pen nib. Cyan spent four months building a fully playable prototype of Anglerfish. They…

besorgt Ich mache mir Sorgen um meine Zukunft. Mein Psychiater ist der Meinung, dass es schlecht für meine psychische Gesundheit ist, wenn ich mich auf Stellen im Bereich Design bewerbe. Deshalb muss ich andere Wege finden. In den letzten Wochen dachte ich, dass ich einen Kaffeestand eröffnen könnte. Zunächst war ich sehr motiviert, doch inzwischen habe ich Zweifel. Am Donnerstag habe ich mit einem Pitch-Deck für eine Werkstatt begonnen. Diese Werkstatt vermietet ihr Untergeschoss. Ich werde…

Our first show at the Fringe! Caught by a rainstorm (in Scotland?!?!?) the app said this was the nearest comedy show to our sodden carcasses and it was free! This is bang-average stand-up. That isn't to disparage it at all. Four Australian blokes each doing 15 minutes of material - nothing particularly avant-garde or challenging. Just some decently funny (albeit well worn) observations about kids names, customer surveys at Tescos, and whether leaving skid marks is cultural heritage. That said,…

Always allow your dreams to last you your lifetime. I guess that’s the message behind this very sweet animated short, written and directed by Nicholas Arioli. A young boy wants to be an astronaut, as makes sure that he wears his space helmet wherever he goes, just in case he gets the chance to reach his destination – the moon. Then one day he comes across a coin operated ride which is – of course – a rocket ship. At five cents a go, it’s a must – so his mum leaves him to it while she goes…

Just wanted to share a photo tribute to Sharon on the anniversary of her murder. R.I.P to Jay, Sharon, Abigail, Wojciech, Steven and unborn baby Paul. R.I.P also to Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Which of Sharon’s films and performances are your favourites? Sharon and her dog Prudence. Photographed by Jay Sebring(Sharon’s friend and ex, who fought so bravely that night to try and save her)in her garden. Image source Wikimedia Commons. Sharon and Wojciech. Photographed by Jay Sebring in Sharon’s…

I picked up for a pound a weird DVD combining some olde Scottish musical shorts and a couple of short silent comedies starring and made by Rikki Fulton in the 50s. I figured I’d get intertitles and also some Awful British Comedian content. The first thing on the short is a filmed performance by Sir […]

Welcome to Day 10 of 13 of my Great Balkans Road Trip with Just You. So far in this series, we’ve travelled from Romania through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia. We’re now back in Romania for the final few days of the tour. In this episode, we’re starting with a tour of Timişoara and ending up in Braşov. You can find the whole series at the link below. This blog contains affiliate links to help support my writing. Travel Diaries What is Hotel Timişoara like? The highlight of this…

My wife and I recently rewatched all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I managed to catch all the episodes I’d missed the first time through. I was surprised to find Les Misérables featuring prominently in a fifth-season episode, “For the Uniform.” Captain Sisko is pursuing a defector from Starfleet who joined the Maquis (an ad-hoc militia of mostly humans from planets that had been disputed between the Federation and the Cardassians, and ceded to Cardassia as part of a treaty). He’s always…

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...We have a winner for my bloggiversary celebration giveaway! She has been notified. I'll be posting the MAVERICK quiz answers on Sunday....August 8th is the birthday of Esther Williams, Rory Calhoun, and Richard Anderson. Please visit my photo-filled tributes to Calhoun here,Williams here, and Anderson here. They each gave us many wonderful hours of entertainment!...Film Masters is releasing a Blu-ray containing SECOND…

Long doc, full of split-screens to fit as much rock action into the widescreen frame as possible, and still manages to miss major events (Creedence) in favor of a portrait of the guy who cleans the toilets (a highlight) and reporters hounding the fest organizer over whether the fest is losing money. With 30+ hours of music recorded that weekend plus all the interviews and split-screens, this event would be a prime candidate for the Eno treatment.

The only recording today is a repeat of The Simpsons – Stark Raving Dad. Media Centre Description: Homer encounters a character who calls himself Michael Jackson. Is he the real McCoy? Recorded from Channel 4 on Friday 30th April 2010 17:58 After this the recording ends with the start of Hollyoaks. Here’s the ad breaks. Adverts: Tesco Sony Ericsson Experia 10 Miss Dior trail: The Ricky Gervais Show Bing Audi R8 Spyder Enjoy England Argos Sony Ericsson Experia 10 Direct Line Home Insurance B&Q…

Four years after Sunset Boulevard, a movie that opens with the death of someone in the movie business then rewinds to show us the backstory. Our tragic contessa is Spanish Ava Gardner, last seen in the similarly-technicolored Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. It’s not a deal killer for a Hollywood movie but her Spanish is not good – what’s more important is she can speak English with a Spanish accent. The guy who pulled Ava from her unhappy home (her father later murders her abusive mother) is…

MACAO (1952), just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection, is, as the saying goes, "more fun than a barrel of monkeys."MACAO has always struck me as a bit in the shadow of HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951), the first RKO film starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.HIS KIND OF WOMAN is a wildly entertaining ride, but the final act is frankly quite disturbing at times, mixed in with fun humor.I don't think I'd seen MACAO since I reviewed it here in 2008. I'd forgotten what a good time it…

Gregorio Cortez is a folk hero among Mexican Americans along the Rio Grande border in Texas. In 1901, he was questioned by Sheriff W. T. (Brack) Morris regarding a reported horse theft. When asked by Sheriff Morris's interpreter Boone Choate if he had traded a horse, Gregorio Cortez truthfully told him, "No." Mr. Cortez had traded a mare (in Spanish, yegua), which in Spanish is distinct from a male horse or stallion (in Spanish, caballo). Boone Choate misunderstood this, and as a result Sheriff…

Magnificent Apple Strudel kindly baked by Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine for the lucky guests on this Sunday’s tour of Whitechapel. Click here to book for Whitechapel tours on Sundays 23rd August, 6th and 23rd September, and 18th October We are delighted to show these splendid cut paper collages by favourite illustrator Marion Elliot which are the subject of her exhibition MAKING GOOD at Tinsmiths in Ledbury, opening this weekend and running until 4th September. For those of…

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Indebted to Tim Lucas for mentioning the existence of Cockatrice, a novel by Wolf Mankiewitz a satire on the British film industry that aims to do for it what EXPRESSO BONGO did for pop. Mankiewitz felt that Val Guest did a fine job directing that one, but steered it away from its wider social satire, […]

There are a lot of good emotions on faces in Psycho and this shot is one of them. Norman Bates: I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing. Psycho (1968) Table of ContentsWhy Psycho?The MovieMusicActing PerformancesCinematographyConcluding Thoughts Why Psycho? It has been a while since I have reviewed a movie for this blog. Movies are one of those media formats that I have a hard time sitting down and watching, however much I want to do so. There is also the problem of…

Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both. He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Image Credit Flickr User aaronknox Babson was later to write in his autobiography: My family says that I am defacing the boulders and disgracing the family with these inscriptions, but the work gives me a lot of satisfaction, fresh air, exercise…

Goldfinger (1964)

It’s that time again, when the Dawes brothers descend on the Isle of Man (literally this time, as they flew over), I have to think up a different snappy title, and they both send me lots of photos. Just a few today, and a torrent follow…… Ron reports….. Early start to catch 0810 flight from Gatwick, which did not take off until 0900 but landed only 20 minutes late. Having checked in and put our bags in our room, we were free to go out before midday. Took bus to Derby Castle to have our first…

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I have previously discussed several of the anti-drugs and alcohol posters found on the set of the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department. These include the “Mom and Dad, I Use Drugs” poster along with several Reader’s Digest Foundation Drunk Driving posters. There is one additional poster opposite the “Mom and Dad” poster in the hallway just... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – “The Odds Are That Marijuana…” Poster at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 Kentucky trio Highgate have taken to expressing their feelings about the state of the world through a particularly abrasive and blackened take on sludgy doom, and their new full length record ‘Prophecies of Eternal Horror’ seems to be the focal point of all that rage and fervour. It has been their first full length release since 2013’s ‘Survival’, although there has been a little life in them since then. It is out now through Horror Pain Gore…