Issue 19

..he was as funny as another stand-up comedian he despised. I can see how that might be considered as fundamentally shallow, but if Seinfeld the stand-up comedian is actually Seinfeld the man’s complementary personality, you can see how it can become a very personal issue. Then there’s the (locally) celebrated example of The Vines’ singer,…

HG Wells? But surely he was a 19th century writer? What on earth could be relevant to today in his prognostications? Well, he was incredibly prolific and popular in his day and his books continue to inspire film-makers today. The War of the Worlds was probably his most famous piece of fiction but The Time…

..sign of Proust or a bottle of Pinot Noir, not a barbecued artichoke heart to be seen, just accents that could break glass at a hundred metres. I felt surrounded by stereotypes from the Bulletin and Billy Butlin holiday camps. But, with the exception of the on-going lack of Proust and the super strength strine…

.. in the course of being interviewed by Michael I discovered quite a lot about the goings-on of Geof before and after our lives briefly intersected in an exchange of letters back in the ‘70s. This Geof-type information curiously resonated with the first writer, Shane Homan’s brief, which is to record the history of venues,…

The idea of a Metaverse did not arise with Linden Lab, but had its genesis in a Commodore computer game from Lucasfilm called Habitat, Lucasfilm being the film production company that brought us the steadily declining Star Wars franchise. Habitat was made available in 1987 by the corporate progenitor of America Online, Quantum Link. It…