Keeping Abreast of the Fabulous

All right, even I am having difficulty at times keeping up with all the news, so if I repeat something here, it just means you’re paying attention, well done, here’s a cookie! Soon I have to leave the glories of Alba for the um, gories? of Albany. Alas. Which means I have to figure out…

Re-Imagining the Olympics

The 2012 Olympics are over. If you weren’t in the UK you might not have been aware of just how transformative these two weeks were. That I’m even talking about it is evidence enough. Like many of my geek and writer friends I’ve often found myself in the position of fighting against the popular attention…

Join the Cult of Kaity!

The fabulous Queen of Everything, Stephanie Johnson — my co-conspirator in the Women’s League of Ale Drinkers, the gathering place for creative women — designed these fabulous labels for my fictional cult’s official drink, Stargrove Citrus. The cult idea sprang from a silly conversational thread on Facebook, as often happens (though oddly there were no…

Unexpected Morecambe

Spotted in Bleecker Bob’s was this EP by the Sugar Rays which features a lovely design of Eric Morecambe‘s iconic face. It does not seem to have helped them succeed: perhaps the existence of the more popular later band Sugar Ray created difficulties. Who can say? And yes, belatedly, I discovered that Kim’s Video is…