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It’s a young man’s game, innit

“I’m a singer. I’m a performer.” Accused of taking part in a £1.75m armed robbery Brian Hibberd had an unorthodox defence. Apparently it worked.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 6:40 AM on September 12, 2007 (17 comments)

"The same old dream: world domination."

Todd Alcott, a screenwriter and Livejournaller, just sat down and watched every Bond film from Dr No to Die Another Day.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 7:09 AM on June 19, 2007 (32 comments)

Revolutionary Road

Sam Mendes is currently directing an adaptation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road. Ignored for much of Yates's lifetime the 2000 edition, championed by Richard Ford, received renewed critical acclaim and the book went on to make Time's all-time 100 novels list. For those re-discovering it John Mullen offers a four part reading guide: imaginary dialogue, the epigraph, comic dialogue, the ending.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 1:48 AM on June 13, 2007 (13 comments)

Nova Swing

Nova Swing by M John Harrison has won the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award. Named after the famous author and announced on the opening night of the Sci Fi London film festival the award is one of the most prestigious in science fiction. Everything you could possibly wish to know about this year's shortlist.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 1:47 PM on May 2, 2007 (33 comments)

Between The Fantastic And The Mimetic

In the Chinks of the Genre Machine: it is slipstream week at Strange Horizons. Seventeen years after Bruce Sterling coined the term it has spawned two anthologies, ParaSpheres and Feeling Very Strange. (The later inspired by this blog entry.)
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 12:57 AM on September 6, 2006 (14 comments)

Nevermind Zidane

Nevermind Zidane: jockey Paul O'Neill puts the head on his horse.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 6:30 AM on July 26, 2006 (10 comments)