Reasons to be Cheerful...
Perhaps it's generalized anxiety from having lost my phone, maybe it's and adrenaline comedown after last week's successful cryptozoology event. Then again it could just be the weather.
Anyway. In an effort to cheer myself up here are some cool things:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens... hang on wait, wrong list.
Here we go:
The Dunesteef Audio Podcast - Their choice of fiction is excellent and each story is produced with subtle layers of sound and music and with each character voiced desperately so that it's like a mini-radio-play. Admittedly the accents do occasionally veer off course but the producers have obviously done what they can to fit voice to character and to be honest nothing has ever been so jarring as to keep me from listening to the whole story (which is a lot more than I can say for certain audio-books voiced by "professional" actors). The after-story chatter by the two hosts Big Anklevitch and Rish Outfield is funny and endearing in a geekish way.
Speaking of podcasts, if anyone is actually interested (which, bearing in mind that I hardly ever post and most people have probably forgotten I exist, is improbable) The Drabblecast by Norm Sherman and anything form the Escape Artists stable is well worth trying (although Alisdair Stuart, the pseudopod host, has made me cry at the gym by being too insightful and philosophical).
Ghost Stories - I saw this a couple of weeks ago on it's last night at the Lyric in Hammersmith (it's now at the Duke of York in the West End). It is written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman who are both famous for doing other things as Google can no doubt inform you. The play itself comprises (surprisingly enough) 3 ghost stories, held together by an academic lecture on supernatural phenomena. I can't really say more than that without spoiling it in some sense but I can say that it gave me a few frights and f the phrase "Daddy's got Meow Meow" does not strike terror into the hearts of future generations then I have no hope for the future of humanity.*
Beer - The local Beer Festival starts tomorrow and I have free VIP tickets and a day off.
I'll get a new phone tomorrow - shiny new toy, shame about the circumstances.
A cup of Tea - 'nuff said.
*The program contained a horror story and a quiz. do you know the name of the ventriloquist dolls on Dead of Night and Magic?