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Adrian Salmon's characteristically splendid cover for my Benny play has now been released into the interweb. Woo! The play features a nu...

"The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm...

Some pontificating, when I should be doing writing I was meant to have finished on Friday. Had a very nice day at a wedding yesterday, chatt...

Went to the Nelson and Napoleon exhibition on Wednesday, and met up with some old chums me and the Doctor hadn't seen in ages. The exhi...

The fab new issue of Dr Who's Magazine has details of authors and stories for History of Christmas . You can get yourself a copy of the...

36 years ago today, Neil Armstrong clambered down from the lunar module of Apollo 11 and fluffed his lines . Google Moon - brother to the q...

Spent a fine and chappish weekend in Brighton doing stag things, where I was Not Good at both raft-building and croquet. The latter was not ...

Amazon are boasting the cover to fellow first-timer Nick Wallace's Fear Itself . It's beautiful, and I am sorely envious. Picked up ...

I have a horrible bloody cold. It just isn't right when it's so hot and sunny and lovely outside. Years ago, I asked the old man (wh...

More lyrics from Great , which I am now writing a full, proper feature about. One day it will be available on DVD. Yes, one day... Get a big...

As Liadnan says: Screw you, whoever you are. London's still standing. And if it burns to the ground, we'll just build it again. We...

I am hungover as a bastard, and don't quite remember all of last night. The Doctor took me to the World's Most Photographed exhibiti...

BBC News is reporting on the logo for the UK's presidency of the EU . It's an odd sort of non-story, where some people like it, some...

Just this second received my contributor copies of A Day In The Life , which is a nice, chunky volume. Looking forward to reading it. Even m...

A wiser man than me recently ticked off my pronouncing the 't' in 'often'. It's meant to have a glottal stop, he said. R...

Lyrics to a song about the building of Clifton Suspension Bridge , from Great! , Bob Godfrey's Oscar-winning, animated musical biography...

A king stands on the grassy peak of a hill, at some point between the Romans sodding off and the Normans sodding on. From this vantage, he h...

If IMDB and my maths are correct, then Peter Davison was 29 when he sat up on his elbows and looked a bit bewildered. So, as of today, I am...

Just back this afternoon from some days in Italy, where I helped nice people clear what was once a compost heap and will soon be a workshop....

Oh, the urban dictionary just get's better and better. A chum sends me this listing : Guerrieri Chief Guerrieri of the Toke-a-lotta-we...