Linkblogging For 18/03/10

Shame about Alex Chilton. One of the greats gone…
Via Tez Burke, here’s a five-CD set of ‘toytown music’, that style of English baroque pop which combined piccolo trumpets and lyrics about toy soldiers and childhood. Follow the rapidshare links but also have a look at their notes. This contains all the usual suspects (The Move, [...]

Linkblogging For 16/03/10

Firstly, an update on Print PEP! for those who are wondering why it’s taken so long:
Simply, my Scribus problems escalated – at some point a system update replaced a load of my fonts with similarly-named ones, and confused it enough that I didn’t just have to redo the last 15 pages and add in a [...]

A Terrible Idea I Need Talking Out Of

It’s Zom’s fault.
In the comments to my Doctor Who Pop-Drama post he wrote:
Andrew, I’ve been thinking about heroic hyping the X-Men pretty much all year, but have been put off by the horrible facts of Morrison’s experience on the book. In conversation with Amy yesterday it occurred to me that, fuck it, we should go [...]

Joe The Barbarian

If there is one person who I wish had never been born, it’s Joseph Campbell.
The concept of ‘the Hero’s Journey’ has done more to ruin fiction and popular culture than any other concept I can think of.
I’m not talking here about its role in ‘the Men’s movement’, though it’s hardly surprising that a narrative [...]

Linkblogging For 13/03/10

Apologies for the radio silence for the last few days (Tilt, I’ll try to get that track to you at some point…) but I’ve been suffering from exhaustion – not just tiredness, but proper unable-to-function-in-any-coherent-way, barely-able-to-stand,unable-to-focus-the-eyes exhaustion – for the last week. For that reason today’s post will just be linkblogging. I hope I’m coherent [...]

Linkblogging For 13/02/10

Beatles post tonight, assuming this migraine dies down.
Firstly, while I thought I had reason to be mildly annoyed at Google, at least it didn’t decide I automatically wanted to be bestest friends with an abusive ex and a bunch of people who want to rape me, like it did with someone else… meanwhile Twitter has [...]

Linkblogging For 30/01/10

Well, that was unexpected… I never realised Norfolk Blogger was such a popular blog, but thanks almost exclusively to his link to my iPad post I got a thousand more visitors than usual on Thursday…
I’ll be doing one of the book club posts later tonight, and another tomorrow, (and replacing the comics post I *was* [...]

Linkblogging For 25/01/10

I’ve spent the last week working on PEP!-related stuff, but I’ve now sent the final text out to all contributors. All that remains is to get any last-minute changes from them, and get it typeset, so I can start posting here again. Today’s only going to be a linkblog, because my wife is a Vikings [...]

Linkblogging For 17/01/10

Racist UKIP in racist policy shock. I’ve actually seen racist UKIPers on Twitter saying they want UKIP promoted as a libertarian party. Because when I think ‘libertarian’ I always think of denying people the freedom to dress as they like for racist motives.
Alex previews the Peladon Tales boxset.
Google and China in battle to enslave you.
An [...]

Linkblogging For 16/01/10

While I’ve been mostly offline, I *have* read a few things in my Google reader…
Marc Singer is returning to comics blogging!
Sean has a list of Comics Of The Decade that would serve as a very good primer. I’m planning on doing my own one of these sometime soon…
I can’t believe I’ve never come across comics/horror [...]