The Woolamaloo Gazette is a satirical newspaper I first started on email way back in 1992. It allows me to vent steam on stories which are bugging me or amusing me and hopefully make people think at the same time. Satire is the best defence in any democracy. The rest is just my ramblings, mumblings or rants. You can contact me via "laughing penguin (at) woolamaloo (dot) org (dot) uk" (remembering to swap at for @ and mind the gaps)
Off down to BBC Scotland for a short time this afternoon to do a quick spot on the Movie Cafe, alongside historian Mark Jardine, talking about the resurgence in the big, tough hero again as Solomon Kane hits cinemas and another Robert E Howard creation, Conan, is heading back to cinemas too; show is available for a few days on the Listen Again feature.
Labels: BBC Scotland, movies, radio
posted by Joe at 10:35 PM
I'm a 30-something blogger in Edinburgh, once sacked by my former employer for comments on the blog. I'm a bookseller and a serious book and movie fan, also posting reviews on books, graphic novels and movies regularly. The rest of my time is spent in thinking up smartarse comments, tickling my cats and supporting my local brewery.
2 Comments:
I hadn't come across Solomon Kane before: judging from the comments made during your spot on the Movie Cafe, it sounds as though Gemmell's Jon Shannow owes a fair bit to him.
"There was no straightforward, unabashed movie hero in mainstream American cinema between John Wayne and Russell Crowe in 'Gladiator'." Discuss.
Lovely blog!
A while ago, I copied a blogging meme off Woolamaloo. I just reposted it today--now can't find it again here. I think it was from 2006.
At any rate, thanks for it--of course I live-linked to you.
In blogland, things never die...
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