The World Science Fiction Convention takes place in London this August. The committee have, seemingly, got their act together, and have been coping well, despite having their British SF guest of honour (Iain M Banks) die on them last year and the usual hotel registration difficulties. This weekend, many of the staffers have gathered at the site to ( Read more... )

Listening to the World Service this morning, I was brought up short by an interview with a photographer who managed to get film out of Poland (and later out of Holland) during the German invasion in WW2. (Part of the excellent 'Witness' series, which details eye-witness accounts, normally as an interview, with people who were present or took part ( Read more... )

Clark Gregg shows people why he doesn't understand why "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" loses viewers who should be following avidly...

To quote, he says that people who have stopped watching and have critiqued the show... "Those aren’t geeks. Those are losers. You start to have people like Deathlok showing up; You start to understand that a bunch of ( Read more... )

Dear Harry Potter fandom ( Read more... )

I said I'd post a picture of Bren in his not-totally-ineffective anti-scratch gear and here it is


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Some wonderful person took the opening credits from the first season of the cartoon 'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes' and did a live action version from the movie. It's excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m63hbXxBUs

I do not object to Gattis, Moffat and Thompson writing fan fiction (or sharecropping, if you prefer.) I could hardly do so when I write fan fiction myself ( Read more... )

I have, on the whole, kept out of the whole 'Sherlock' thing, and, in particular, criticism of Moffat and Gattis for their handling of women, both in 'Who' and 'Sherlock'. I also haven't been reading either of them on the subject of their adaptation of Holmes because I am really not interested ( Read more... )

For those of you who, like me, thought that one of the weak points of the final battle in The Avengers/Avengers Assemble was the music, there is a link to a video behind the cut using the The March of Cambreadth by Heather Alexander aka Alexander James Adams.

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Meme time.

coth gave me the letter D which I found incredibly difficult. It's a letter people don't seem to love very much ( Read more... )