Zoomy's thing

 I was quietly but hugely irritated last weekend by not being able to find on the internet exactly when the two William stories I mentioned ...

 Facebook occasionally shows me interesting things in the hope I'll click on them - today I saw the top 40 at such-and-such a date and m...

 Continuing the occasional series of blog posts about the early comics work of the writers of the classic Thundercats cartoon (which really ...

 "William and the Nasties" , the short story by Richmal Crompton, first appeared in "Happy Mag" in June 1934, and was co...

 I don't think there's any better way to spend the four-day Easter weekend than in watching my way through the first season of Maggi...

There are very few people in this world who appreciate why it's clever and entirely appropriate to create a picture of Dust Brain wearin...

 I don't seem to have posted anything here for a month, which really wasn't intentional. I should make a point of saying something h...

 I'm on my way home from Cambridge as I write this, after a weekend's othelloing. The finals are still going on, although as usual I...

I've said it before, but Excel Esports is a great pastime for anyone who's even slightly smarter than the average bear. This month...

Having re-read my way through all three-and-a-bit books about the Bastable siblings, I couldn't resist moving on to some of E. Nesbit...

 I'm trying not to spend money recklessly at the moment, after a year of mostly being idly and deliberately unemployed and also surprisi...

That shot of my comic collection in Mind Games: The Experiment actually gives a glimpse of two more comics, apart from the ones I listed in ...

 I'm a computer! I'm a computery guy! And last Thursday evening, while I was too busy writing about that documentary which I've ...

By far the coolest part of the whole experiment is that I got a pair of custom-painted shoes, bespoke designs just for me, by Greg Itahara! ...