The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Bored now.

This is the complete text of the first part of an essay I wrote a very long time ago, about last Tuesday. People on the internet are unlike...

I make a joke comparing Dawkins to the Borg, the Cybermen and the Daleks. ("He's like a rather ridiculous hyper logical robot in TV...

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So, happy birthday then, Jack Kirby You were born 97 years ago today. You were the primary creative force behind Marvel Comics Althou...

I wrote an article. About funnybooks. Here it is:  Are the "words" printed in a "comic book" actually particularly "...

Doctor: All elephants are pink. Nellie is an elephant, therefore Nellie is pink. Logical? Davros: Perfectly. Doctor: You know what a hum...

“Corporal punishment never did me any harm.” “Really? Then what did?”       A.A Milne. attrib. The God Delusion is a very unevenly edit...

“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it.... "What do you mean?" said Gandalf. "Do you wish me a good morning, or m...

English is my native language. My words mean what I intend. If you read them differently because of "social context" that's y...

Gone out Backson. Bisy backson.

You can buy it from Lulu right now, and from Amazon eventually.  If you want to tell me how clever I am, maybe you could do it ov...

The Rabbits of Watership Down are rabbits. They are as rabbitty as Richard Adams can make them. Everything they do is based on real rabbit b...

Dear Miss Douglas Thanks for your kind note. Yes autumn is really the best of the seasons: and I'm not sure that old age isn't th...

Today's Guardian essay about C.S Lewis contained all the usual distortions by all the usual suspects. If anyone but me is still interes...

NEWSFLASH: The book will also contain rejigged and repurposed versions of the DVD reviews I did for Sci Fi Now -- they helpfully plug some o...

There are more stretch goals! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1376208315/the-viewers-complete-tale £2050 UNLOCKED -- Bookplate by fo...

There are stretch goals. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1376208315/the-viewers-complete-tale

Please look at @AndrewRilstone 's Kickstarter. He says it's about Doctor Who. He's wrong. It's about everything. http://t.c...

This is what I had to say all those years ago, when Doctor Who had just returned to our screens. If you want me to carry on writing about ...

I would not care to read that book again. It so exactly mingled with the mood Of those impressionable years that now I might be disill...