Browsing archives for November, 2009
Cross Blogination 9: Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Cross Blogination is a project I’m doing with twitterthon hero Diary Of A Ledger, the idea being every week one of us will recommend to the other one of our all time favourite albums, which we will then both write a review for. Then every third week we review a suggestion from you lovely people. This weeks installment [...]
Rites of Passage
A manic week this week, so things have been a bit erratic around here. Monday’s post got shunted because I normally write these when I am on my lunch break, but about two hours before lunch I got asked to take my first driving lesson, as Ellen couldn’t make it. And so with no mental preparation [...]
Trainee Level Gamer
I love Gaming. Everything about it appeals. The immersive nature, the potential for huge epic storytelling. The culture surrounding it, it all appeals to me. Everything except playing the bloody things. Unfortunately the ability to play computer games is something that ‘purists’ consider to be quite an integral part of the culture. It’s always been [...]
The Shield
This weekend I finally finished the seven season odyssey that is The Shield, with its emotionally destroying finale meaning that once again I am talking TV. I started watching the Shield when I first moved to York and found the first season on special offer in HMV. Often unfairly this show has been compared to the genius of The [...]
Misfits
Apologies if this is becoming TV central these days, but this is in large part due to being the parent of a small child who can’t get out very often, and of course being a big geek,as was pointed out to me on Twitter yesterday when I started talking randomly and enthusiastically about Babylon 5 [...]
I blame Summer
So it appears that Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ has been cancelled. Colour me utterly unsurprised. I was shocked when Fox gave it a second series, and since then the ratings have been as tepid as month old bathwater. It’s a shame as what has been aired of the second series so far, coupled with the season [...]










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