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Monthly Archives: July 2009

New Don McGlashan album

Don McGlashan has a new album coming out (or already out? or something?). I presume it’s getting some airplay in NZ, anyone can tell me if I should be excited? In any case I’m not paying any attention until The Diss is Dissertated. But it might make a nice present-to-self in a couple of weeks… [...]

Cthulhu bathos

From the wikipedia entry for The King in Yellow: In Lovecraft’s cycle of horror sonnets, Fungi from Yuggoth, … And then his fans wonder why nobody takes them seriously…

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Er… that is: PhD defence is Go! Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it? But I’m excited. So: on December 15th of this very year 2009, Michael Franke and I will defend our PhD dissertations in a battle to the death ritualised question/answer session, before a committee of fogies in dresses professors [...]