Found another reference today, in the form of a fanfic entitled "Through Ten Mirrors, Strangely". Bit of a stretch but not so much as to not count.

Current Count: 3

Okay, a while ago I stumbled across a blog belonging to a guy who was testing out the theory that it was impossible to go one day without encountering at least one reference to the Wizard of Oz (ayearofoz.blogspot.com/search ).  Although he didn't manage to find something every day, he came close.

Anyway, due to me having Wonderland on the brain ( Read more... )

In my previous post on the possibility of real life Sparks, I covered the more...high end examples which most people would've heard of. Now I'd like to address the minor, completely barking 'rural' Spark end of the scale, mainly because I recently came across a prime example. Behold ( Read more... )

Something interesting occured yesterday. I was on the bus when I spotted a dog walking along the pavement on it's own, the only human in sight being a guy several meters behind it. I didn't think anything of it at the time but after I'd got off the bus a few minutes later I saw the same dog come trotting towards me, the guy I assumed it was with ( Read more... )

In November there's a one day con in Leeds called Thought Bubble which I've attended for the last two years, first as a 'slightly gormless newbie', then as a nutcase with a red coat and a camera. This year I'm planning on going in costume. I did think about costuming last year but ultimately wussed out due to fear of mockey, paranoia about getting ( Read more... )

 This week has been a bit more interesting then normal, with a definite theme to the interesting parts. On Wednesday, a dove fell down the chimney. No one saw it happen, my mum just went downstairs and there it was on the kitchen windowsill. We only know how it got in because there was a load of debris that had fallen down with it in the fireplace ( Read more... )

It appears that the online vermin known as Spamus spamus, or less formally the common spammer has sunk to a new low of pointlessness and started to spam comments on LJ. I have recieved such a comment for my post regarding Girl Genius and quite frankly I am somewhat perplexed, not only because of the sheer randomnessof the spamming (they didn't even ( Read more... )

Once again, one of my cunning plans has fallen apart before I even started. Long story short, owing to the difficulty of getting published when you're unknown, I got into into my head to do a webcomic to try and build up a bit of a fanbase behind my name to make getting published a bit easier, not to mention that having people like my work would be ( Read more... )

I've recently been reading the most excellent web comic Girl Genius, which is set in a world ruled by mad scientists. Badly. Thing is, I'm something of a coincidence magnet and I've also been coming across stuff that makes me think that the comic might not actually be that far fetched. I present for your consideration:

Real Life Steampunk Robots ( ( Read more... )

A quick update on my studies for anyone who cares. So far my progess is as follows ( Read more... )