Saturday 30 May 2015

A New Experiment

I suffer from starting many things, and finishing few. To try to alleviate this somewhat, I have decided to start a new blog.

(Irony?)

Well, not really a blog. More a publishing space for short stories, ideas, whatever comes my way.

And I would love to publish other peoples work on there as well, if they want.

To begin with, I have finished a short story I started a while ago as my first post. It called 'Letting'.

You can check out The Little Sight at littlesight.strangecircle.org.uk

(Or you can click on the winking eye on the front page of my website.)

Monday 4 May 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

Snapped this yesterday whilst walking by the Hogsmill. #citynature http://t.co/oknamXUd1k
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Sunday 3 May 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

I love Bank Holiday Weekends... you get an extra day on the weekend, and then only four days of work. #result
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Thursday 23 April 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

The guard on my train just used the term 'personal stereo'. I haven't heard that in years. #blastfromthepast http://t.co/7WVkevtiQk
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Tuesday 21 April 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

You have got to love #PennyDreadful #BitchFight http://t.co/iayPuszLN2
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Monday 23 March 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

"On the contrary!We all share a part of the divine spark,and any act of union is a work against the precepts of the lie." #ColletteBowyer

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From my Twitter Feed...

"It is tempting to conclude that love and friendship are temptations that ground us, and blind us..." #ColletteBowyer

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Monday 16 March 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

"I fear silence above all things, for only when quiet can we hear the ticking of the Universe beneath us." #ColletteBowyer

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Sunday 15 March 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

"Hark!Can you hear the beckoning of the night?In its midst all truths are equal, and the Lie is but a mote amongst them." #ColletteBowyer

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Saturday 14 March 2015

From my Twitter Feed...

#IMAJICA is one of my favourite books. Ever. #CliveBarker http://t.co/EDvvgDrEyg

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From my Twitter Feed...

I think I have fully entangled every aspect of my life with #IFTTT. Twitter to Facebook. Twitter to Blogger... http://t.co/sUiV8mI5p2

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From my Twitter Feed...

From my Twitter feed...


Blinds



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Monday 9 February 2015

The Walking Dead - Another Death, but in such style!

In an episode more akin to an art house film than the sometimes samey, thrown together fayre you normally find on network television, AMC's The Walking Dead has outdone itself again. With fleeting, visceral imagery and constant misdirection, the episode is a fitting homage to one of its best loved characters.
And no, I'm not talking about Beth.

Just watch the cold-open.



SPOILERS BELOW!


Yes, we are still all reeling from the sudden and shocking death of Beth, the innocent (but quickly tarnishing) songbird from the farmhouse that got in with the wring crowd in the hospital from hell. But, only 17 days later the crew are destined to lose another invaluable member; and one who has become the most recent moral compass of the group.

Tyrese.


Wielding his trademark hammer, Tyrese refused to descend to the animalistic levels of some of the shoes others characters, and the rest of humankind in general. It what we first think is imagery arising from the death of Beth, the episode reveals itself to be the death-note of this gentle giant. After locating the former home of Noah, and finding it decimated, Tyrese is bitten by one of Noah's undead brothers. The last half of the episode is a hallucinatory examination of Tyrese's decisions and compromises.



Martin, Beth, Bob, Lizzie, Mika and The Governor(!) all pay him a visit from his subconscious as he comes to term with his own death. It is touching and terrifying at the same time, in a way that The Walking Dead can do so well if it really tries.

RIP Tyrese, and here's hoping that this phenomena of a programme can keep delivering like this.