One of my favourite books looks like it has just received a full US release.

It is The Music of Razors and the website is hereIt's a really good book and I had to hunt for ages to find it. I actually used to enjoy his writing on aus.culture.gothic when I was writing my thesis and that's how I found that he had published a book. Today on a whim I ( Read more... )

I'm tidying up some stuff that I had in a folder for the last Victorian Age Vampire game I was running.

Please ignore them if it doesn't interest you.

The Dark Victoria LJ group is interesting. Especially interesting is this article on the London Necropolis Railway and another wiki link on it.

Here is the workhouse that the game was set in ( Read more... )

I went to the 48 last night.
I also left it several times.

It looked like a good party. In much the way that bakeries always look like they have wonderful food when there is no money in my pocket.

If I could float and drift forever
I'd join the shattered dreams together
I'd spy upon the disbelievers
And scatter them into the seasonsAnd now the ( Read more... )

I am now back in the cellphone having class. Yes, after months of a phone that barely held charge, wouldn't make calls (even free ones) and seemed to run for about 30s of phone time on a full charge, my wonderful wife recently accumulated me a shiny new phone ( Read more... )

Yup.

It's time for closing the internet windows from yesterday and going to work. Something which I didn't do yesterday and feel all the better for.

So two random author links. The first of on Phil K. Dick and has interesting points to make about a guy who wrote a large amount of interesting but often almost unreadable stuff. I need to remember ( Read more... )

An interesting Scientific American article here about aluminium toxity and links to things like Parkinsons.

I was reading a book last night about serendipity in scientific discoveries and found in an interesting tid-bit on Charles Martin Hall the discoverer of a practical method for extracting the third most common element in the Earth's crust ( Read more... )

Our indoor soccer games have been very up and down lately. Sometimes annoying and violent, sometimes good and fun. I think I've finally worked out what it is that annoys me in the bad games ( Read more... )

It's been a while ( Read more... )

The strong smell of alcohol in the air.

The dimly lit rooms.

The discarded latex gloves.

Yup, I'm in at work on a Sunday and ripping instruments apart.

I've done 13 hours already and there are more in sight.

When I was living in LA a friend of mine came to visit me as part of a world tour. Prior to LA he had been in Prague and in the way of these sort of things had gotten chatting to a lady who turned out to be an LA cop. She said very little to him about LA, her only piece of advice was "Don't drive the 405 ( Read more... )