Humor

It seems that I’m not dead yet. As some of my blog readers might know, I write books from time to time. However, I have a deep, dark and secret past, which out of absolutely nowhere, raised its head in rather spectacular fashion today. To give you an idea of how totally surprising it was, I had to get…

Science fiction fact. Not as much fun. When reality exits the pages of a book or falls from the silver screen, and lobs into the lap of reality, somehow the magic of science fiction is lost. Especially when it is over my breakfast. In a severe blow to fantasy, an Italian doctor from Turin, Sergio Canavero,…

Do you want to be popular? Everyone wants to be liked and be popular with a wide range of friends and acquaintances, so naturally this sense of self-worth must extend to your life on the internet. As we all spend far less time face to face with our friends now, and far more time sat…

Really Stupid Book Titles An odd fact I’ve noticed about my blog is that my posts about stupidity rate as highly as my posts about books and publishing. So I thought, why not combine these two popular post topics into one? Hence, today’s offering. Books and abject stupidity with a selection of really stupid book…

Oh no, it’s the Grammar Police again! Over the years I have had my fair share of attacks by the Grammar Police, or as they are sometimes called the Grammar Nazis. They are a strange breed, as they obviously have little better to do than painstakingly read mountains of text, all in the hope of finding…

Stuff you, I’m a parking lot vampire! Don’t you just love these vampires who would rather die than park more than three paces from a shopping mall entrance? Happily blocking all the traffic behind them as they wait for grannie and granddad from somewhere up the country to pack their monthly shopping into the back…