A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
This essay was originally published in You on Target, an anthology of essays about the Doctor Who Target novelisations, released in 2020. In it, I talk about (among other things)…
Blake’s 7: The SevenFold Crown
This review of a very early Blake’s 7 audio drama was published in TV Zone issue 99 (February 1998). I can only barely remember writing it, and I didn't actually…
Ensign Gladys McKnight
The Wrath of Conn
This essay was first published in Outside In: Makes It So, a collection of essays published by ATB Publishing in 2017 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek:…
Last Days
I'm writing this post from the Royal Suite at the Bangkok InterContinental Hotel. It's the largest suite in the hotel. I'm seated at a glass coffee table in the lounge;…
God mode
I met Calvin in Siem Reap on 27 December. It had taken me two days to get there from Athens. A flight from Athens to Dubai, which was delayed a…
καλά Χριστούγεννα
Most of my last post was written on the ferry to Patras. I had decided to spend two nights there, not because there's anything particularly cool about it, but because…
Burning Star Wars to the ground
“I didn’t actually come here to free slaves.”Qui-Gon Jinn, The Phantom Menace (1999) Perhaps the most baffling complaint about The Last Jedi is this: the Finn and Rose subplot is poorly integrated,…
Bari — Episode II
If you asked me right now to name my favourite Star Wars film, my answer, without hesitation would be Episode VII: The Force Awakens. It’s the funniest of the Star…
Sorrento things
It’s raining like crazy today, so I’m postponing my visit to Pompeii until tomorrow, which is my last full day in Sorrento. I arrived here on 3 December. There have…
ἐκκεκώφωκε τὰ ὦτα καὶ ἐμπέπληκε Λύσιδος
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past few months. Here’s one. I’ve been booking the cheapest possible hotels on trivago.com and booking.com. I can’t afford to stay in…
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