johncoxon went to the Penguin Prelaunch for the Sixth Book last night... he returned with the cover. (Click to Embiggenate) Not bad. Not bad at all. Go read John's report. ED: John points out that there are folks who don't realize it's pronounced the same as "Owen". I suppose you might think it's pronounced the same as Ewan...

You know the one. The Galaxy spanning epic trilogy, where a small group struggles in conflict with the powerful galactic empire, etc. No, not Star Wars . It's the animation that makes this brilliant. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) seen at johncoxon and stevegreen 's An ants nest with the soil removed and the tubes filled with concrete. seen at whizzerandchips...

Tagged by ajshepherd : 1. go to the fourth folder on your computer where you store your pictures, 2. pick the fourth picture in that folder, 3. explain the picture, 4. tag four people to do the same Okay, this picture is ~/Pictures/Misc/070907_mouse.jpg As for an explanation... well, first go back and watch the 2007 Doctor Who episode The Family Of Blood . And then have a look at ...

A Happy Fannish Birthday to johncoxon ... and lapswood too, I hear!

Happy birthday to forbiddendanish and johncoxon ! A few things of amusement: This really made me laugh: Metro paper points out World's Oldest Lolcat ?? Also, have managed to get a work colleague to give me spinning supplies - lovely soft poodle hair clippings. Tempted, for "Weird Al" reference purposes, to make it into a hat....

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In February I signed my organ donor card (28 points) . Last month I ruled Duluth, Minnesota as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points) . In May I bought porn for nightrider101 (10 points) . Last Monday I pulled johncoxon 's hair (-5 points) . In April I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points) . Overall...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul sarkywoman goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as A Pirate. eryaforsthye gives you 14 milky white cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. himedark gives you 15 orange coffee-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. johncoxon gives you 4 light yellow orange-flavoured gummy bats. lux_apollo gives you 6 teal apple-flavoured gummy bats. nightrider101...

Long time no update. Life has been rather hectic. Mostly, in good ways. I went to Zombiecon. It was fun. Heavily zombie-oriented, as you might imagine. I did a few panels - helped Elvis electrocute people, then did talks about necrophilia and the science of zombies - y'know, the usual sort of stuff. They seemed to go OK, thanks to co-panellists such as the good Doctors adelheid , emmajking...

Bah, I'm so not going to have time to write up a ZombieCon report this week. Hmm, maybe I should take time next week and do a proper one and offer it to some fanzines. Or finish up my write up of True Names and G.E.B., and the Cthulhu hat knitting pattern (including lessons learned, rather than the actual one), and the Fan Art for purplecthulhu 's story, and print my own' zine. Hmm. Probably...

Does anyone know of a UK-based source for 70 gsm A4 paper? (Preferably in reams.) Back when I was first doing fanzines (which, I've just realised, is before the likes of johncoxon were even born), 70 gsm was the standard weight of paper. I'd already realised that the standard weight of paper these days is 80 gsm. What I *hadn't* realised, until this weekend, was that 70 gsm paper doesn't seem...