Recent content by Iain Aschendale

"[The 1984 Bill Murray movie] Stripes will keep potential felons off the streets for two hours. Few people seem to be asking, these days, that movies do more." TIME magazine

I'm seven and change books into The Dresden Files based on several recommendations from members here when I talk about my WIP. Distressing that he has so many similar ideas to mine, but then when I remember that the first book was written as a "you want tropes? I'll give you tropes!" kind of...

Terrance Stamp has passed, aged 87

Why you gotta ask complicated questions? I didn't stop by during any downtime, and your formula is prolly right in the summer but we don't do daylight savings time. Right now-ish?

Ouch. Elevate any cuts as much as you can (hold your hand above your heart/head) if it happens again, that helps some. And duct tape, but you knew that already 😀

Loni Anderson, of WKRP in Cincinnati, dead at 80.

Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died at 97. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/28/tom-lehrer-dies-aged-97-dead-musical-satirist

Do we have a "Discussion of published works" (I think that was the name under the old forum) or something similar? Not our own works, but if we just want to shoot the breeze about Tolkien or Ian Fleming or Dickens or whatever? I searched but didn't come up with anything, but I can be kind of a...

Ah shit. I saw him in 1992 (No More Tours tour) and... 1994? The Retirement Sucks tour. Amazing showman and despite everything seemed like a decent guy. Sleep well, dark prince.

They're both risky sports, but it's kinda like how the real Red Baron got shot down by AAA, not another fighter. Just seems wrong to go out that way.

“If the people believe there’s an imaginary river out there, you don’t tell them there’s no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river” ― Nikita Khrushchev, reportedly giving advice to then-Vice President Richard Nixon

David Gergen is dead. If you watched any political history documentaries in the 90s the name will be familiar. He was an advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Basically the proverbial fly on the Oval Office wall. Lewy body dementia, the same thing that got Robin Williams...

I'm learning to play the Jew's harp/ jaw harp. Not as easy as it seems but easier than guitar.