Out of Ambit
Film and TV
The Starship and the Upstairs Flat
There is a moment in Sherlock‘s second-season episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” in which the world’s first and only consulting detective is attempting to get to grips with the fact that his senses, the tools of his trade, utterly reliable for all his past life, have apparently turned on him and are no longer to [...]
The Affair of the Black Armbands
I’ve been a fan of Sherlock Holmes for many, many years. I don’t even really remember when I first started reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal tales of the world’s first and greatest consulting detective, though it has to have been fairly early – probably when I was twelve or thirteen. There is nothing unusual about [...]
Dinner for One
A peculiar thing happens in a number of European countries, mostly (but not all) German-speaking, on or around New Year’s Eve. The TV stations begin showing the same brief comedy sketch again and again. What’s truly unusual about this is that the sketch is in English — recorded nearly 50 years ago in front of [...]
“The Six Tasks of Snowman Hank”: an outline
It all started with this tweet from @DonSpeirs: “@wilw @dduane fan project for #Kimvention2012 – What do you think the 6 Tasks of Snowman Hank were? #kimpossible #snowmanhank” …All I can say is… it got me thinking. Too many people know that I love the Kim Possible series dearly, for a number of reasons including [...]
Today’s Dr. Who moment: the perfect Whovian perfume
You could not make this up. While looking for more info about Queen of Hungary Water, I stumbled across this at a Hungarian perfumer’s site: Méchant Loup …A characteristic and powerful woody, spicy fragrance with a surprising hazelnut heart. Licorice, anice, pepper, pimento, hazelnut, oakmoss, patchouli, honey, tonka bean, castoreum. Sounds lovely. Especially when you [...]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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