Steven Moffat does it again - 'Blink' gets a Hugo

It's quite nice to see that Paul Cornell's Human Nature / The Family of Blood got nominated too (I'm not remotely surprised that it did, either...) - and it's good to see that Catherine Treganna's Torchwood episode, Captain Jack Harkness (IMHO the only season one Torchwood episode that really worked), also got a nomination.

Today has featured pimms, small children, moose hugs, pimms, barbecued animal, ice cubes, mushrooms, pimms, discussions about the correct use of language, the chili challenge, songs about the Coventry ring road, daddy monkey's escape bid and many other things besides...

It's been Elaine's birthday and there was a Party. With much silliness.

Time for sleep now.

(from Sherman Alexie, via Neil Gaiman's blog)

"Do you know why Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained."

I quite like that one. Possibly because you can interpret it in a few different ways...

Good morning, world. It's going to be a damn fine day.

Are you tired of hearing about gardening yet? :)

No, I haven't been doing any more of it. But I think I need to be. This weekend is jambon_gris and Elaine's party, next weekend I'm in Bristol, the weekend after that is the bank holiday...

...and if I don't get my act together and get some raised beds put in place, I'm not going to be planting the turnips or kohlrabi that really do need to be planted quite soon...

I see some busy week nights ahead of me. Now, where did I put my trusty spade...? :)

...just because this bit of news surprised me and I feel the need to share. A while back, Marvel Comics handed over their UK operations to Panini.

I wasn't expecting anything too interesting to come from this, but as well as republishing Marvel's most popular superhero comics for sale at UK newsagents, Panini have been printing collected editions of some of the more interesting Marvel UK comics - things that Marvel themselves have never managed to reprint in collections...

So far, we've had two volumes of early Captain Britain stories (with a third one to follow) and two volumes of Death's Head. Not a bad start - and a very sensible start, if you're looking to gauge interest...

They've just announced their next collection - Dragon's Claws.

I may be the only person who remembers this one. Ten issues of dystopian adventure in the grim 82nd century. The seas have dried, the land is desert and Blackpool's a no-go zone inhabited by gothic psychopaths...

It's not an amazing comic - it definitely had its flaws - but it was good fun and it'll be good to see it back in print.

Now, if they'll just follow that up by reprinting the first run of The Knights of Pendragon, then I'll be really happy... :)


 

Happy birthday, jambon_gris!

Regrets

They have a point.

Somewhen in the next two weeks, I'm going to attempt to grow kohlrabi and turnips.

This may go horribly wrong. Alternatively, I may end up trying to offload spare vegetables on friends... :-)

First, though, I need to contruct a couple of raised beds at the end of the garden. This should be fun.

(I'm half-watching the Hungarian grand prix. It's failing to hold my attention...)

You are in a mall when zombies attack. You have:

1. One weapon
2. One song blasting on the speakers
3. One famous person to fight along side you.

1) XM214 Microgun - which seems to be about as close as you can get to Hollywood's beloved minigun...

2) Fields of the Nephilim, "Moonchild".

3) Winston Churchill, or possibly Lucy Liu.

The memes, they're getting sillier...

Weebl's Stuff - Owls!

As pointed out by deathboy. The best thing I've seen from Weebl's Stuff in a while.

It's only slightly insane.