The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Pleased to meet you, Reverend, your cousin is insane

I don't always trust everything Tony Blair says; I sometimes suspect the Archbishop of Canterbury may be a bit on the liberal side; Bob ...

Saturday, 10 AM "I shall need a dinner jacket," thought Andrew to himself. "I shall hop on a Bus to glamorous Macclesfield, p...

Saturday morning -- The Cambridge Tolkien society are doing their dramatic reading (actually, a full scale performance with singing and soun...

Well, I'm back, he said uncertainly.

...for the Tolkien 2005 convention on Thursday. So I although I have things to say about Tony Blair and Conan the Barbarian (that's two ...

....and if anyone gave a similar treatment to Tollers or Jack, I'd be deeply sniffy. But it made me laugh and laugh and laugh.... His Da...

Daphne: It makes me glad we don't have so many guns in England Frasier: You don't need them. You've got steak and kidney pudding...

On Saturday, I travelled on a train called "Doctor Who." No, really: someone at Virgin Trains decided that it would be a wheeze if...

I balanced all, called all to mind The years to come seemed waste of breath A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, th...

Parliament was united against a common enemy yesterday, an enemy that will stop at nothing, that has only contempt for our way of life, and ...

" He drove me to the Tower of London, more huge and terrifying than I'd imagined, like a sprawling medieval Alcatraz. We got there ...

Grey city, stubbornly implanted, Taken so for granted for a thousand years. Stay, city; smokily enchanted, Cradle of our memories and hopes ...

Tony Blair looking smug. More racism than usual in the Sun and the Mail. Tony Blair looking smug. More traffic jams than usual in London. To...

Hello. I've been in Barcelona for the last five days. The city, not the planet. All the dogs I saw definitely had noses. I've change...

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Memo to self: When remonstrating with one of Branson's drones -- say, for example, about the fact that if they are going to replace all ...

See also http://www.rpg.net/forums/phorum/rf08/read.php?f=3339&i=11&t=1 Once upon a time, a man made a horror movie. A lot of peo...

Mind you, I've been wrong before.

Davros would be too obvious. No ground work has been laid for the Master. The Valyard would be preposterously fannish So it's either Von...

All movies have to have a "tagline". The "tagline" for the forthcoming movie version of "The Lion, the Witch, and ...

Galaxies we have lost Ben: I guess it was a while back. I was a Jedi Knight, like your father. Luke: But my father didn't fight...

"Luke sensed that the old man had no wish to talk about this particular matter. Unlike Own Lars, however, Kenobi was unable to take ref...

You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them. "The Empire Strikes Back" 1: Preamble "Revenge of the Sith...