Tag: Discworld

by MMB September 20, 2019 0

Fascinating Fictional Fiction – Off the page into your hands (Part 3)

In the last of this series of posts on Fictional Fiction, I look into those famous authors whose invented booksContinue Reading

by MMB March 14, 2015 0

Terry Pratchett (Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE) died on 12 March 2015. Last week Thursday. He was only 66Continue Reading

by MMB October 20, 2014 0

Death is a difficult subject to write about, but particularly when it is not coincidental but core to a book’s theme orContinue Reading

Don’t you get sick and tired of people asking dumb ass questions? November 11, 2019
Would you like to ask me a question? NICOLA, WALLASEY, UK [ ] I have come to believe that the right question is what we are really searching for, the answer may reveal itself if only we can find the right question. My question to you, then, is what is your question? GEMMA, HOVE, […] The post Don’t you get sick and tired of people asking dumb ass questions? […]
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Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019 (2019) November 6, 2019
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" wrote English poet John Keats in 1819. "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." For creative directors Hazel Baird and Heidi Berg, however, Keats's eternal chiasmus is incomplete; their truth is so much more. In their opening to Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019, Truth is a savior and a shadow […]
Night of the Demons (1988) October 23, 2019
“I've never heard so many disgusting stories in all my life.” — Judy Cassidy In the pantheon of goofy, gory and trashy ’80s horror movies, 1988’s Night of the Demons is one of the best. Directed by Kevin Tenney, the movie chronicles the wacky and violent misadventures of a group of ill-begotten teens invited to a Halloween party at an abandoned house by […]