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Finally got out of a post Masters inability to read and finished Bring Up The Bodies which is just brilliant. Mantel's manages to turn Tudor politics into an exciting psychological character study, which I wish I had had access to when studying it for my A Levels…
I've just started The Wee Free Men because I've been…

Van Morrison/Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue

I accidentally listened to Radio 1 recently and it seems that singer-songwriter with a vaguely EDM backing is pretty in right now, so I can't see him straying too far from that.

Yeah, I don't like him, and I haven't paid any real attention to him, but I can tell he is probably a damn good musician. Just a shame that his writing is kinda bland.

Aha, I thought I'd heard some of the older music cues in there.

Well, the heat's been bad since he gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle.

Huh, that makes him wanting to avoid it even more silly - juxtaposing the slave-owning ancestors with civil rights activists in the more recent past would have actually made for a really interesting conversation.

You might say it's one step beyond!

I don't know why I know this but there are folks with cuckold fetishes where you pay a gentleman to perform blanket hornpipe with your partner. It is to that, I assume, that Mello refers.

Yeah, the live show was a fun experience but it doesn't feel right with folks whooping when certain characters are mentioned and such.

Wow, I had no idea that there was such a big WTNV backlash until I saw the comments here. I'm still really enjoying the podcast (although I really also enjoyed the later seasons of Parks and Rec as well which got similar criticisms of being too nice and fan-servicey). They've done pretty well to keep it interesting…

Okay, silly speculation time - the 'minister of war' that was referenced last episode is going to be a thousand year-old Ashildr who has become a heartless dictator after being forced to live forever, watching everyone she cares for die.

Yeah, it was just a shame as I loved him in Awakening so it was a shame that between the games he completely changed (not to mention I'd done his and Justice's companion quests seemingly bringing them both some measure of peace and then they both bollocks everything up…)

I'm continuing my first play-through of the Dragon Age series. In the third act of 2 now. I have to say that I've enjoyed DA2. I am aware of its reputation (and oh boy the blatant copy-pasted locations/interiors are kind of maddening) but in some ways I'm enjoying it more than Origins. Having a PC with a voice is…

I went soldier first time because it's a solid jack of all trades beginners class, which had the nice by-product of unlocking the rifle skill for my second play-through as a biotic (although I actually found that, while I thought I'd need something bigger than a pistol, I barely used it as biotics are pretty much…

I lost my companion early on - I was jumping up a cliff so I could avoid running into bears, but forgot that your companions can't exploit those kind of things an she ran the long way around and I never saw her again…

Because of the fact you don't have to specialise, I was a stealth archer but also with dual-wielding axes so I could move in for the kill quickly when I wanted. It was a pretty good 'one woman army' set-up.

My character sided with the Stormcloaks mostly because a) she was a Nord, so it was in her interest, b) the Empire soldiers always sound so snooty and c) wasn't I about to be executed by the Empire for being an illegal immigrant? I did feel bad as I realised how Nazi-like some of the Stormcloaks seemed though

When you put it that way it's not so far removed from Heart of Darkness itself and Achebe's criticisms of the novel's treatment of Africa.