for really cracking the whip on this one. He’s a tough taskmaster. And to Andy Bowden for the cover art, which is just splendid. And thank you to everyone who’s bought a copy of The Crow Folk, who’s put a review up. It’s always massively, massively appreciated. Four weeks in...
In comic book fandom, there is only one true living legend. Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men are just a few of the co-creations of Stan “The Man” Lee. At the spritely age of ninety one, Lee was recently on our shores for his farewell wo...
I went to this concert on my own. I knew a lot of the songs, but didn’t actually own any Kate Bush albums at this point, as I was still at school and was living off the fumes of my pocket money and Saturday job. I could barely afford to pay for concert...
First what is AI, as we now know it: I got this neat explanation, though I kind of already knew what it was: It is a program that can reprogram itself on the fly by getting input from users. It is in no way sentient, self-conscious, or as complex (this is important) as the mo...
Coach people on how to pitch? Done it all. Can do it all to a high degree of competence. But does that look like a job to you? Is it one of those nice compact and well-defined roles which are beloved of the Harvard Business Review crowd? Nope. Not even close. Things I have ...
He told me about the “Dollar Baby Program” in which King contracts with students and very, very independent filmmakers to adapt one of his short stories into a film for the cost of one dollar. I knew what story I wanted to adapt immediately. “Last Rung on The Ladder” was a short ...
“The Answer Tree” is about a film critic at a rare screening of a legendary horror movie so subliminally seductive that it kills people. It’s a serious version of the Monty Python “killer joke” skit performed as a mashup of surrealist biography and iconography involving Cocteau, Bunuel,...