In Trafalgar Square

Sitting with a drunk friend. Nice view.

In Trafalgar Square
In Trafalgar Square

Karl: style guru

Karl: style guru
Karl: style guru

Leaving Do

Leaving Do
Leaving Do

Good Weather Ahead

Despite Piers' concerns:

Easter Bank Holiday
Easter Bank Holiday

Good times ahead!  


Liveblogging is thirsty work

Liveblogging is thirsty work
Liveblogging is thirsty work


Lloyd Davis of Perfect Path taking a Liveblogging break.

At Blogging4Business

But where is the wireless?

At Blogging4Business
At Blogging4Business

Sunday afternoon in the back garden

Sunday afternoon in the back garden
Sunday afternoon in the back garden

Who's that (MySpace) Girl?

Martha MySpace
Martha MySpace

Martha Jones, the new companion being introduced in the third series of Doctor Who that starts on Saturday is on MySpace.

It's not clear at this point if it's a fan effort or a BBC promotional decision. If it's the latter, that's a very interesting move for them.


Analysing 300

Great review and analysis of the film 300.

300 is racist.

Anyone who is not Spartan, pure-blooded and pure-shaped Spartan, is lesser or evil. Xerxes’ emissaries are black, his soldiers are Asian and African and Persian and God knows what else. He employs the monsters of Africa against the plucky band of Spartans, and all are inferior, barbarous, cowardly. They hide behind numbers, they hide behind masks, they hide behind sorcery and arrows and treachery and anything else they can think of, while the true Spartan men are unashamed of their faces, their bodies, their pure god-derived blood. And yet…

300 is not racist.

The Spartans treat all who come before them the same, regardless of color. The worst contempt is reserved for the Ephors, men of Spartan blood and ancestry, bloodless and pale. At the end of the film, there is a message of unity, of joining the greater whole regardless of one’s origin or blood. And yet…

Things of which I am ashamed #1

Exalted: Savant and Sorcerer (Exalted) (Exalted)
Exalted: Savant and Sorcerer (Exalted) (Exalted)
Adam Tinworth
Some of you may know that I had something of a secondary career writing gaming books for a while.

MainMor's post about the, uh, less than artistic nature of RPG illustration at times reminded me of the cover I was most profoundly ashamed to have my words behind.

Because, really, what the heck is there good to say about this?