MAKE YOUR OWN ENTERTAINMENT. Having spent most of my life showing off on stage in some form or other, from Ludlow to Aberystwyth to Brighton, London and Edinburgh, to Bath and Bristol et cetera – and having expended endlessly more sweat, currency and love on every evening's entertainment than was probably logical... Well, frankly, in recent…
Magazine Scraps #2
It is slightly worrying to note that it's exactly a year since Magazine Scraps #1, but then I have written an entire book in the ensuing time. Of which more anon... But here are two or three utterly random snatches from my 20-odd years in magazine publishing – or certainly, my many years of active videogame…
Blackadder & Nicola Bryant: An Annoying Apology
In the early hours, my first indication after 17 months that my brother had read The True History of The Black Adder came with a text, pointing out that, although the great Nicola Bryant had been properly credited in the Appendixes, in the text itself I had passingly called her 'Nicola Bradbury'. He then went…
THE FROOD: Fit The Second
The more the need to write this blog intensified, the more the ideas which pinged into my head straightened themselves out as material for the book's actual introduction. And as I'm duty-bound to steer my course on this pretty concentrated odyssey through the galaxy of The Hitchhiker's Guide, the need to keep on tapping away…
What I Would Like To Have Said To Mel Smith
Now I will never find out whether Colin Watkins made it in Hollywood. I would somehow like to think that he didn't. RIP is too glib, so let's try: Eternally Grateful, Mel Smith.
Fry & Laurie & Heavy Metal
Oh, and by the way, yes, there's also this... For any Hugh Laurie / Heavy and/or Light Metal fans out there. It all goes so almost well by my standards until 'Big Bottom', where sadly I lose whatever thread I had, flee from the key and start impercetibly growling. No sound check, you see.…
THE FROOD: Fit The First
Douglas Adams would have honed this long and flabby blog entry down to about fifty words. This is why he can with relative safety be called a genius, and I can be called something else. Nonetheless... This is to announce the forthcoming publication of my third book, THE FROOD: A COMEDIC HISTORY OF DOUGLAS ADAMS'…
The Unrelated Family: Rutles Megamix
It's been a long time, now I'm coming back home – I've been away now, oh how... Hm. But I thought I'd just underline the point that I have next-to-no shame by openly sharing this video on what we might call this 'blog' affair. We in The Unrelated Family do aim to one day follow in…
Magazine Scraps #1
As threatened, I will be posting unsolicited scans from my magazine career as the fancy takes me on this blogwallplace as the years roll by. I consider myself very lucky to have been at the height of my influence and journalistic freedom back when woodpulp-based magazines were A) bought in large numbers by gamers, B)…
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