Author Archive

Vortex

First published at 330 Words, August 2nd, 2010. In the weeks before she gave birth, Vanessa drew every breath of life from out of her visitors. Friends, relatives and medical personnel all had to leave some vital part of themselves with her, as though the viability of her pregnancy depended upon gifting her with a soul [ READ MORE ]

Retirement

First published over at 330 Words, April 26th. Two old people are chatting in the bathroom whilst outside the sun throws itself uselessly at the net curtains. “Why can’t you leave me to pee in peace?” “I’m just talking. What’s wrong with talking?” “I need to pee. Can’t you give me a moment just to finish off? It always [ READ MORE ]

Troutbeck

[ READ MORE ]

Up and coming films

I spent my lunch watching some trailers to see if I could get excited about films again. It's been such a long time since I saw anything worth, well, watching[ READ MORE ]

Life, Inc opens for business

  • June 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Books
  • By Dom

With all the updating to HeadBlog I have to do I knew this blog would suffer. Not that the absence of HeadBlog made me work any harder but hey, it's an excuse. I've also just committed to some mad website project, more of which will follow if it ever takes off[ READ MORE ]

Where do the years go?

  • May 7th, 2009
  • Posted in Work
  • By Dom

I cannot believe it has been almost two years since my last post. Father forgive me. It may well happen again. You see, I have begun playing elsewhere[ READ MORE ]

Still stuck in the future

  • July 17th, 2007
  • Posted in Books
  • By Dom

Reading Hyperion was such an unexpected pleasure that I found myself more than happy (if such a state can possibly exist) to pick up and lug to work the next two books in the series. Endymion steps forward after the events of Hyperion and introduces a new group known as the Pax (the Catholic church). It's hard to describe any of these books without becoming bogged down in jargon and mad, made up terms so I'll barely bother. Suffice to say that it is more focussed than Hyperion and equally impressive in scope[ READ MORE ]

Book em Danno

Ok, after the fire, after the war and after the floods, I have decided to kickstart this blog for the Nth time with a series of short comments about whatever I'm reading at the moment. This is due, mainly to the fact that the RSS for this site is now being broadcast through some freak's Facebook page[ READ MORE ]

Same old shit

  • April 4th, 2007
  • Posted in Work
  • By Dom

Evidence, if evidence were needed, of the unassuming arrogance of the self-proclaimed 'mainstream' media can be found in an article published today. Take five minutes, read and then whiz back and we'll mull over a few things[ READ MORE ]

Big mouth strikes again

  • March 26th, 2007
  • Posted in Work
  • By Dom

Sony's recent release of the PlayStation 3 has been somewhat dampened by reports of poor sales and low turnouts. Even if the truth turns out to be completely different it poses a problem for Sony and raises questions about what it is the world is looking for in next-generation videogaming[ READ MORE ]