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I think news has mostly gone round already, but I'm going to look a frightful sight for the next few days at least. I took a tumble off my bike on the way home last night and unfortunately my face broke the fall. The summary is that I'm not badly hurt, but I probably don't look it! |
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From today's Guardian (quoted verbatim I should add):
William Shakespeare, who died at the scene, weighed more than a tonne and belonged to an enthusiast in nearby Walney. He had a record of trying to escape. Cumbria police said: "William Shakespeare was very well known in the area, but he tragically sustained fatal injuries in the collision and died at the scene."
A pity it wasn't a theatre review!
(Why am I writing on LJ rather than my thesis? Because I wasn't paying enough attention at the station this morning and am currently heading north to Didcot.) |
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I have received the most wonderful gift through the post from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pearbean: Marked for Death. It's a book and I think you can guess what sort of book from the blurb:
You're John Collis, an Intelligence agent on an undercover mission: find the source of the small non-fissionable bombs being smuggled into the country. Your only lead takes you to the Caribbean, posing as a tourist, with the female companionship of Credulence Knickerbocker - affectionately known as Knickers. But from the moment you step off the plane, you find yourself on the wrong end of a manhunt, fighting for your life against an unknown enemy. Only this time it isn't just you alone. You've involved an innocent girl who's suddenly become a target in a game where life means nothing and death seems the only solution.
As far as I'm concerned the key point to take from this is Credulence Knickerbocker.
( More exciting extracts... )
And now we resume your regularly scheduled silence.
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Since my normal blog is currently down due to hosting company incompetence, I'll switch to this one temporarily to report two small bits of news.
First of all there is apparently a Firefly MMORPG in development. It won't be available to the public until 2008 and I'm bit puzzled as to what it will actually contain. After all the virtues of Firefly are its characters, dialogue and clever plotting which don't seem to be things that will be easy to transfer.
More immediately, the BBC are broadcasting a dramatisation of Philip Reeve's "Mortal Engines", a series of childrens books which I find interesting because, at least initially, the characters live in a predatory mobile London that preys upon other small towns roaming England! The first episode is here (warning: link to realmedia file).
(Also, saw London to Brighton last night at the Phoenix. It's billed in their program as containing "a chillingly realistic world of petty crime, sexual depravity and violence" but while well-acted and well-made wasn't as affecting as Pan's Labyrinth.)
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The gorgeous, intelligent, kind and above all paying-Livejournal-member childofatlantis has created a syndicated feed from my regular blog Monarda. If you want to see what I’m posting there on your friends page then add ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) if_monarda as a friend.
Some notes:
- Entries from the syndicated feed may appear as an initial enormous splurge (though I think they shouldn't). It will get pushed down the friends page like any other set of entries if it does happen
- Please post any comments on my main blog and not in the feed as I can’t promise I’ll see them; handily each entry that appears on livejournal starts with a link to where you can post replies.
- I don’t have any control over the feed so I won’t see if you friend it. Don’t be offended if you don’t see any reciprocation.
- Moveabletype's equivalent of lj-cut doesn't work across the feed, you'll see all the text. Sorry in advance for my wordy style.
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It occurs to me that this livejournal thing and my normal blog have completely different audiences and I might as well abuse that a bit!
In this particular case it's to air one of my dark secrets (I'm not like Liz who manages to reveal a terrible secret, like love of Dragonball Z, everyday) - I like RPGs. Not the vaguely respectable computer variety, though I do like those, but the pen and paper variety. I never get to play them but I regularly go out and buy the books and read relevant websites. Here's part of the reason:
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*cough* Well, I found it clever and amusing.
[Edited - no change to the text, just closed the lj-cut correctly]
Apr. 22nd, 2005 @ 02:33 pm
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