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Pathetic
2008-02-10 10:05:00 The Express showed its usual levels of sensitivity in reporting on that news story this past Wednesday. Only two days later it’s forced to report: “Philip Walters, coroner for Bridgend and the Glamorgan valleys, said he is concerned about young suicides, and wants an all-Wales strategy created to deal with the problem, but does not believe ... More About: Pathetic
Friday Flash Fiction: After The Rain
2008-02-08 15:22:00 After The Rain By Neil Beynon The girl pulls her raincoat tight round her as she walks up the path through the slate grey hills to the lake. It?s raining faintly; dirt flecked, wind blown vapour that creeps insidiously up her sleeves and down her collar. It plasters her elfin hair to the sides of her face ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Fantasy , Friday
The Woodsman: update 1
2008-02-07 13:39:00 Ok, so after a good start that saw months of procrastination done away with in one swift retitling of Priest as The Woodsman I am once again stuck. Little progress has been made as I’ve been trying to get the structure right. Each night I’ve been busy playing around with chapter cards on the carpet driving ... More About: Fantasy , Random , Update
Columbo Villain of The Week: Boris Johnson MP
2008-02-06 21:42:00 This week?s Columbo Villain of the Week is Boris Johnson MP. Constant readers will know that I viewed Boris?s entry into the London Mayoral display doubting, as I do, Londoners? ability to differentiate between a democratic vote and celebrity big brother. Ergo whilst Boris on BB would be highly entertaining, Boris as Mayor of London has ...
Who the F*** is Alice?
2008-02-06 14:25:00 In case anyone was wondering, this is Dr Alice Roberts: I’m not posting a picture of G because she’s [edited for legal reasons]. Not on the telly. With me (if you know what I mean). And she’d kill me. More About: Random
You don?t have to be mad?
2008-02-05 23:37:00 A glimpse inside my head: Pan does not really sound like Pan although the character is interesting but what would be a cool name? G is really [edited for legal reasons]. If I can’t really remember when I was two did I really exist? If I don’t recall my dreams do I die when I sleep? ... More About: Personal , Humour , Random
Postscript
2008-02-05 00:11:00 Quick update: Priest is now The Woodsman. No new words just playing round with the structure at the moment in an attempt to fix the somewhat sporadic pace. Oh and I fell on my arse trying to take my socks off. See I told you there would be slapstick. More About: Personal , Random
Fair warning
2008-02-04 12:03:00 Decisions. They’re funny things. While I was back in Wales I kind of reached a decision, that being I really need to finish my story Priest for both my sanity and to put into the kind of state where it can be shown to people without embarrassment. After all I’ve spent a lot of time ... More About: Fair , Warning
Quest
2008-02-03 13:45:00 There have been various posts recently about the quest to find a suitable handheld device that can actually function as a phone as well as an internet device from Stephen Fry to Charlie Stross. I must confess: I’m no different. As a fellow gadget head I’ve had my fair share of devices but have yet to ... More About: Quest
Review: Sweeney Todd
2008-02-02 19:50:00 I finally got round to seeing Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd tells the tale of the demon barber of Fleet street, an early prototype of the serial killer who first appeared in penny dreadfuls of the early 1800s. Cutting his way through a swathe of victims whilst his partner in crime Mrs Lovett recycles the corpses in ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Horror , Johnny Depp , Film
Wales 26 England 19 - At Twickenham
2008-02-02 19:29:00 I realise most people reading my blog won’t care but: WE BEAT ENGLAND AT TWICKENHAM. Last time we did that I was eight. Da Iawn. Now I need to lie down until my heartrate settles, talk about nailbiters… More About: News , England , Wales , Rugby
Friday Flash Fiction: Fragments
2008-02-01 16:32:00 Another experiment this week. Hope you like: Fragments By Neil Beynon Watch: scuffed glass on flimsy leather, hands frozen. Boots: sculpted in shadow, dust gathering in the creases. Sheet: stains no detergent will shift. Book: pages half thumbed, half abandoned, spine broken falling open at a folded corner. Keys: worn metal hanging from decaying metal. Mug: cracked glaze, half remembered liquid; still and ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Science Fiction , Friday
Quick Update
2008-02-01 10:08:00 Hope everyone’s ok. It’s back to Wales for me this weekend, a brief trip to see family and also try to make a dent in the redraft of Priest (I also need to give it a better title). I won’t lie: I’m very frustrated that I’m not getting more done. I think I’ll need to look ... More About: Life , Update , Quick
Columbo Villain of the Week: Guy Ritchie
2008-01-30 18:59:00 This week’s CVTW is Madonna ’s house husband, film director Guy Ritchie . Guy shot to fame in 1998 with his reinvention of the classic British crime caper movie that was so popular in the sixties and seventies. That movie was of course Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The film was a run away success launching ... More About: Fun , Humour , Random
Never give up
2008-01-29 22:23:00 No doubt if, like me, you’re a fan of Neil Gaiman you’ll have already read about this. Patry Francis managed to do that amazing thing every writer dreams of and got her book sold only to discover she had an aggressive form of cancer. That fact means instead of promoting her book, The Liar’s Diary, she’s ... More About: News , Personal , Books , Reading , Crime
Story: Wide Open Space
2008-01-29 14:44:00 Ok. Currently I’m still ploughing my way through Midnight’s Children and I haven’t been to the cinema for a while nor done anything else other than work. So there’s not much to report. However I do have a story - Wide Open Space - that seems to have lucked out but that I quite like and ... More About: Horror , Story , Fiction , Random
musings
2008-01-28 19:29:00 It’s amazing isn’t it? I’m sat here in Charing Cross station writing a blog post on my handheld. Yet we still can’t build a station in Central London with capacity for more than ten people and a small dog to sit down. Similarly you can buy a mocha froc fapacino expresso from any of five different chain ... More About: Life , Musings , Sings
At the seaside
2008-01-26 19:49:00 So today I went to the seaside. After a few weekends of moping around the house we decided to take advantage of the good weather to go for a road trip down to the coast. It’s a short jaunt down to Whitstable, we’d never been before, and that’s how we wound up on a beach at ... More About: Personal , Life , Thoughts , Seaside
Friday Flash Fiction: Silver
2008-01-25 22:23:00 Silver By Neil Beynon The room was dark. Thick acrid smoke clung to Caerwen?s nose and mouth; she coughed as she stepped over a sleeping body. Rhys, if she wasn?t mistaken. Lurking beneath the smoke was the sticky sweet smell of spilt mead. ?You?re Da is over there,? said a voice. Caerwen forced her heart back into her chest. ... More About: Flash , Horror , Fiction , Silver , Friday
Friday Flash Fiction
2008-01-25 20:23:00 I am, somewhat predictably, going up to the wire this week. There will be a story up in a few hours, in the meantime feel free to peruse the archive by clicking on the friday flash fiction link above. ***** Oh and it’s called Silver. It’s coming really soon. More About: Flash , Fiction , Friday
Columbo Villain of The Week: Anthea Turner
2008-01-23 21:56:00 This week’s CVTW is the perfect vill…housewife Anthea Turner . The former Blue Peter girl whose career reached giddy heights with GMTV before she managed to get fired and is currently trawling new depths with Help Me Anthea I’m infested… The one time princess of breakfast telly’s career detonated when she finally pushed Irish co-presenter Eamonn Holmes over ... More About: Humour , Random , Week , Columbo
The Internet: bad for your health?
2008-01-23 18:36:00 A couple of people have asked me about Bridgend hitting the news, yet again, for all the wrong reasons. For those of you who don?t know, that was one of the places I lived when I was kid - actually where I stayed put longest. It recently hit the news because of this. Anyway, I had ... More About: News , Media , Internet , Health , Life
I am writer, hear me roar
2008-01-22 10:46:00 Mister Peace, one of the earliest friends of this blog, has passed me a meme-disseminated award: A Roar for Powerful Words. The award was created by The Shameless Lions Writing Circle to spread awareness of good and powerful writing on the Internet. Thanks Mister Peace, for your positive feedback on my last post and the award. The ... More About: Hear , Writer
Friday Flash Fiction: The Cloud
2008-01-18 17:44:00 Ok. Fumbled this one. Guess that’s what happens if you leave it to the last minute. There are actually two stories here, if you look hard enough. Feedback as ever is welcome. The Cloud By Neil Beynon The funeral was today. I was compelled to go although I didn?t want to. Dreadful affairs. Communal displays of emotion make me ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Friday , Dark Fantasy
Review: I Am Legend
2008-01-17 14:56:00 Hmmm. I finally got round to seeing the recent film adaption of I Am Legend starring Will Smith. I have to admit I was nervous as to what Hollywood had done to one of my favourite books, I’d avoided other, earlier, adaptions for that reason. And quite understandably the film has taken liberties with set up ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Horror , Film , Review
Columbo Villain of the Week: Tom Cruise
2008-01-16 20:02:00 In a bizarre kind of celebrity precog, I rather topically picked Tom Cruise as Columbo Villain for this week. This isn?t quite as opportunistic as it seems as this was written prior to me seeing the infamous acceptance speech that is quite frankly both funnier and scarier than anything I could write. Tom leapt into public ... More About: Fun , Humour , Random , Week
Ten things I?ve done that you probably haven?t
2008-01-15 22:45:00 This is in response to this. It’s surprising how hard it is to think of things, although a few had to be edited for the sake of remaining gainfully employed and/or family members still talking to me. Here goes: 1. Stood in Mogadishu airport but not as a member of US armed forces. 2. Eaten a glass Christmas ... More About: Fun , Humour , Entertainment , Things , Haven
Why?
2008-01-15 18:21:00 I wasn’t sure if I was going to blog about this. And to be clear it’s not about Roger Avary, it’s about journalism. As most people who would be bothered know, because Neil G blogged it yesterday, Avary was involved in a car crash on Sunday that killed a friend of his and left his wife ... More About: News , Media
Review: 1984 by George Orwell
2008-01-14 11:00:00 1984. I was five in 1984. The Berlin Wall still stood. Thatcher was busy castrating the unions, Reagan eyeballed Chernenko and the world teetered on the brink of a few atoms. Oh and Tommy Cooper died live on telly. Another taff bites the dust. But the world survived even if Tommy didn’t. And there was no Oceania. So ... More About: Entertainment , Books , Reading , Fiction , Review
Aliens made me do it
More articles from this author:2008-01-13 13:41:00 I may not be sure about my haircut but I’m certain Tom Cruise made a mistake with this: I mean what was he thinking? Did he decide that nothing turns back time like a good emo cut? Is it just a really bizarre comb-over to disguise a little MPB? Is he preparing to play a certain historical figure? (Clue: ... More About: Humour , Aliens , Made 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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