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Still around, just not here
I think it's safe to say that I'm not really going to be using Livejournal any more, as I haven't posted for over a year and I hardly read my flist either, so... yeah.
I am currently blogging regularly about my failures at Things I Failed to Do, which is more structured, less bitter and self-destructive, and less dickish (as I do realise that a ( Read more... ) -
Snow Pictures
My new phone has a camera on it that is not exactly anything special, but it does have a setting for taking panoramic shots where it combines six images, and its pretty good. Anyway, here are some nice pictures from the snow over Brighton, taken from up on Hollingbury Golf Course.
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Underfire are going to BICS
So, I booked the table for BICS 2009 about a week ago. This was close work, as Shane who runs it got back to me pretty quickly to say that we'd got the second to last table available - phew! Now there is just the scramble to make sure that we've got something ready to sell in time - and luckily for me I'm not in charge this time!
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Interesting and Heartwarming News for once
Bloomsbury have decided to publish a book with an accurate cover. It's funny how difficult they seem to have found the concept. Anyway, well done Justine Larbelestier, for taking up the fight and winning!
(source: The Guardian)
11.46 ETA - P.S. Thanks to triciasullivan for pointing this story out to me in the first place a few weeks back. -
Underfire Website
Once again I have been updating the Underfire Website in an attempt to make it something useful and relevent. This time that means porting over to the wordpress software and getting an easy to read archive online. It's not at its prettiest just yet, and I still need to write up some more of the supporting pages, but it works and enables a constant ( Read more... ) -
Stuff that I wrote
I realise that I spend an awful lot of the meagre amount of time that I do spend posting on Livejournal basically laying into books that have annoyed me and writers that I think come up short. I am also aware that it is easy to be a critic when you have never made anything yourself, and possibly even easier to be a critic when you are a frustrated ( Read more... ) -
Sound Mind
Why did I not reallise that Sound mind was a sequel to Double Vision. I would have got round to reading it much earlier... -
Of Orcs, Grunts, and the lack of any decent subversion round these parts
I recently read the Orcs trilogy by Stan Nicholls - I ended up buying it at the airport before we went to Japan because for some reason I was getting worried that I didn't have enough to read, or that what I did have was too hardcore for holiday reading when I might want to relax. Of course, the opposite is ever true and because I actually was ( Read more... ) -
I did a meme
Rules
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
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The DFC is failing
Man, I was all like - 'hey, the DFC is for losers' when it started up, but now that it's actually having the money pulled from under it I feel really sad. I think basically, even if I didn't like it much, at least it was a real attempt by a big pblisher to do comics in the UK. Now we're back to square one (or 2000AD as it is officially known).
