Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Haunting of Hill House
As part of my post-PhD break (okay, it’s actually just a break in between one steaming pile of PhD draft and the next, but an essential part of my cognitive dissonance is telling myself it’s a post-PhD break), I’m reading the books
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The August Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival Has Taken Up Residence …
… at Nicole Murphy’s place.
It’s eaten all the cornchips, the chocolate biscuits, the popcorn and it’s about to start on the coffee.
See here.
So, Torchwood is saving the World from Aliens – Who’s saving us from Torchwood?
Charlie's Angels still did it better
Contains spoilers: avert thine eyes.
And so, up until last week – i.e. up to and including episode five of Torchwood: Miracle Day, I was enjoying the series immensely.
It was tightly written, no screamingly noticeable plot
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And lo, I did say unto my hair …
… t’is Friday and I am not leaving the house, so I shalt wash thee but I’m stuffed if I’m going to brush thee.
And lo, my hair did say unto me: I give thee Farrah Fawcett’s fringe, circa 1978. Don’t mess with me.
A Sensible Post
It’s so nice when someone listens to me! It happens so rarely! The lovely Sharon M Johnston has blogged about being my mentee – well, I was just going to be her manuscript editor, but as I’m trying to give her as much knowledge as I can it seems to have to turned into mentoring.
She talks about how it all
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