Category: writing

Amazing face, so starry-eyed. Surprise! Staring out into the seventies, Were you ever there? You look like you are, Enjoying the colours, And then you’re not. And then you’re gone. No more besides, That Elton John.

He sits alone in his spaceship, counting the hours. The minutes, the days and the seconds too, but mainly the hours. They are his focus. The more hours he counts, the fewer there are to go. The sooner this mission will be over. He is hanging in space, counting. All of space around him, under…

You write something like the following: Horne and Corden are travelling through time, stealing ideas for sitcoms. Doctor Who is chasing them, trying to stop them destroying the history of comedy. He stops them by writing an entire series of Terry and June in 1978 which uses all the main elements of Gavin and Stacey,…

“these strange college students with their funny jargon and nerdy ways did more to start the computer revolution than any silicon engineering team. naturally curious, these mit students had devoted their lives to intellectual tinkering. they believed in a co-operative society and imagined themselves living in a utopian world in which people shared information –…

So I just caught the train. Which train, I’m not entirely sure. But it seems like the right one. Everyone else seems to think so too, but we won’t know for sure until it leaves, and they tell us where it is going. Bill Drummond was in “Big in Japan”, a late 70’s pop group.…

The dark cove rose far above them, so tall it almost blocked the sky from view. There was no sand, just earth brown rock, gnarled and rippled like a bark from a tree. David lost his footing, slipping on the sodden rock. He plunged into the icy water, which firmly pulled him away. A hopeless…