You’d think I could have SEEN a ship this size, wouldn’t you? I like how the effect here is that it and the buildings are of an exact height. Not that they were far off in actual fact, because that was in fact a big ship. First time I saw a cruise ship–a whole line […]
So the other day when I got the Meat Loaf concert date wrong and there was nobody at the venue and I was walking around trying to find open doors, I noticed people crossing the street to watch the drawbridge being lifted over the Liffy, so I went over to watch too. Despite taking this, […]
I read CITY OF BONES in a deliberately deconstructive manner. I wanted to see what worked and why. So this is perhaps an unusually, er, structural, review thingy. First off, Clare nearly lost me on page three, where the POV character did something to the effect of “my flashing green eyes scanned the room,” which, […]
Another one where I went back and forth and back and forth trying to decide whether it should be a color or b&w photograph. Obviously I finally decided on B&W. :) Egret at Dublin Zoo! (Someone had to correct me on this, I had put it down as an ibis due to them living with […]
Fairly early yesterday afternoon, my friend Pádraig posted on FB to say that after a sudden turn for the worse, Iain Banks had died early yesterday morning. I didn’t repost until I saw it confirmed elsewhere, because although there was really no chance Pádraig was wrong, I was still holding out a tiny thread of […]