The date above my say Saturday, but I'm typing this on Friday 7:30pm local time.The air travel has gone pretty well so far. Managed to easily get on the 07:55 to Chicago and what's more got a seat with a bulkhead, so a few inches more leg-room than everyone else in what my dad kindly refers to as cattle-class (how quickly they forget!) - when he's not lighting bonfires (see Steve's new book). Given the lack of sleep at the Yotel (for which I'm being fully reimbursed) I was literally asleep before we left the ground and managed a good 3hrs+ of snoozing of the 8hr flight. This despite being sat...

Yes, it's nearly 1:30am and the reason I'm posting is that I'm living through a very physical example of irony. I'm currently at the Yotel at Heathrow as (hopefully) my flight leaves early in the morning. There was quite a bit of noise coming through the walls earlier, sounding like a few repairs going on - distracting - but nothing which was going to keep me from having an early night. However an hour ago I was woken from my troublesome doze by what sounded like a jackhammer on the other side of the wall. Funnily enough it appears there IS a jackhammer on the other side of my wall - there is...

It's been a busy weekend and the pace probably won't ease up for the next few days. There's a lot to get done before I head westwards to see Jill in Iowa on Friday. I'm on stand-by for the earliest AA flight out of Heathrow on Friday which means that there's the possibility if everything goes to plan (ha!) I could arrive at Chicago at around 10:20 in the morning with my connecting flight to Iowa not leaving until 9:20 that evening. However there just so happens to be the massive Wizard Magazine event there over the weekend and the venue is about ten minutes from the airport. Some of the guys at...

The internet, of course, seems to bring out the best and worst in people - and often a lack of tolerance of various different hues. Take for instance a thread on one of the main Doctor Who forums which addressed Russell T Davies and the gay references that crop up from time to time in his show. This weekend's episode Midnight, had a female character (Lesley Sharpe in excellent form) making a passing comment that her ex-partner was a she'. No big deal or plot point, but in an episode about paranoia...

I can tolerate idiots. I really can. I've occasionally been one myself and everyone's entitled to talk out of their posteriors at some point or another.What I can tolerate much less is everyday aspects of what I call DRE (the Donald Rumsfeld Effect) where someone can look you in the metaphorical eye and tell you something that you know isn't true, but that you have no choice but to go along with despite their rewriting events and you resisting the inclination to shake them and say 'Huh?' many times...

Well, I was apparently quoted in both The Scotsman and The Scottish Mail on Sunday this past weekend, in relation to the forthcoming (firth-of-forthcoming?)Highlander remake that got formally announced last week. It's been in the works for a while but this was the first public annoucement and it created some nice - albeit understandably sceptical - coverage in the genre and movie press.I was contacted by Brian Pendreigh, whom I know from the film critic circuit, who was writing the article and though I've only seen the online version of the piece, I think it reads fairly fairly given the baggage...