Ramblings of the Easily Distracted

So, last weekend was the Leeds Thoughtbubble Festival, and as with the previous couple of years I headed out and spent too much money on com...

Right, made it out the other side of that Exam. One of my big tension relievers recently has been playing Dungeon Defenders with friends....

There is a thing that many people do, called "displacement activity". This is where you are worried about something, so you keep y...

When I was writing up my love for Fringe' s third season, it struck me that there are whole seasons of “essential” shows that you can ...

Herge's Tintin series is one of the staples of my youth, but one I've been happy to leave in the hazy recesses of my memory, and fe...

The history of geek TV is often marked with the shows that fell to an early grave due to weak opening series or episodes that showed poten...

I nearly missed this. I suspect a lot of people did. Late on a Wednesday night, BBC3, I never saw much publicity for it, and if it wasn'...