Top 10 lists are fun to write. It’s always fun to tell other people your opinions about stuff that doesn’t really matter, and top-anything lists mean that you get to review all the best experiences you had, compare happiness to happiness, and decide which was better. Remembering happiness is a…
OK, I lied – these have nothing to do with New Year’s, except for the fact that I have lots more free time around this time of year and my parents like to watch movies, so I have a lot more filmic contributions this time. Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli, 1992)…
One of my very favourite short stories is “A Study In Emerald”, by Neil Gaiman, which speculates on what might happen if the famous Victorian detective, Sherlock Holmes, had lived in the same universe as the famous Victorian horror-demonic-god-creature, Cthulhu. I’m not such a big fan of Lovecraft myself, but,…