Sergeant Mullins Goes to Bed
It’s no minor matter to be the sergeant in a small town in 1970. No trifle. This is something your mother might remind her friends about as they chat after [...]
It’s no minor matter to be the sergeant in a small town in 1970. No trifle. This is something your mother might remind her friends about as they chat after [...]
Let’s get the facts straight. Alan Shatter, minister for justice, stated on public television that a member of our national parliament had committed a criminal offence. What criminal offence? you [...]
I haven’t done any recipes in a while, for one reason or another, but as I happened to be making mushroom soup, I thought it might be nice to take [...]
Every now and then, this advertising company invites me to post a video, and most of the time I say NO, because for one reason or another, they don’t suit [...]
Many years ago, when I still entertained an ambition to become a vastly-popular science fiction author, I used to go to SF conventions. There was a big one in Dublin called Octocon [...]
I joined the checkout queue this evening, and when the man in front of me saw that I had only one item, he very kindly offered to let me go [...]
If you read that some jungle witchdoctor was threatening to curse a government, how would you react? I think most people would probably draw on that unmentionable well of smug [...]
I was chatting with a musician friend last night, when the old would-you-be-interested question came up. Oh, you don’t know what that is? Well the WYBI question arises when a [...]
If you’ve been coming here for any length of time, you’ll know I’m a sucker for SF, especially if that SF happens to have a provenance going back to the [...]
The Cleveland kidnapping case is one of those stories that leave you blinking and shaking your head. What was that about? Were the girls abducted for the enjoyment of the [...]