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Why is it that every drug fatality, or killing tenuously linked to a film or videogame, leads to calls for crackdowns and bans, but when a marathon (named, lest we forget, for a run which killed its runner) claims its ninth life and hospitalises 73, it's all tributes to the dead man "doing what he wanted to do" and nobody even talks about mild discouragement of the behaviour in question? The London Marathon site, clearly being devoid of any sense of shame, doesn't even list the death among its significant news stories, instead plugging its shop and encouraging more people to sign up for the slaughter next year.
The Divine Comedy are to adapt Swallows & Amazons into a musical; given Hannon's recent efforts, I'm mainly worried for the book's sake. And I've never read the book.
"Kryptonite, the stuff of Superman comic books and movies, really exists. A newly-discovered mineral has been found to contain exactly the same elements as the large green crystals that rob the superhero of his powers. Unlike fictional kryptonite, the real thing at London's Natural History Museum is white and powdery".
My chemistry isn't good enough to be sure of any flaws in the science side of this article, though something about it doesn't quite sound right - but I am upset that neither scientist nor journalist seems to have noted that fictional kryptonite does have a white form.
(Though at least the mineral's real name, Jadarite, still sounds suitably comic-book)
""When I was moving into my new house a few years ago we were having all our kitchen stuff delivered and my then-partner got off the phone, turned to me and said 'the fridge men are coming,'" explains Miéville. "Now, it seems to me that there are two kinds of people: those that hear that sentence and think 'oh good, delivery of the white goods', and then there's those people who imagine a kind of enormous cyborg thing..." Miéville trails off. There's absolutely no doubting which camp he falls into."
Which goes some way towards explaining why I will always forgive China Miéville his politics and his endings. Though I've not yet obtained Un Lun Dun, simply because I already have a ridiculous amount to read at the moment.
The Divine Comedy are to adapt Swallows & Amazons into a musical; given Hannon's recent efforts, I'm mainly worried for the book's sake. And I've never read the book.
"Kryptonite, the stuff of Superman comic books and movies, really exists. A newly-discovered mineral has been found to contain exactly the same elements as the large green crystals that rob the superhero of his powers. Unlike fictional kryptonite, the real thing at London's Natural History Museum is white and powdery".
My chemistry isn't good enough to be sure of any flaws in the science side of this article, though something about it doesn't quite sound right - but I am upset that neither scientist nor journalist seems to have noted that fictional kryptonite does have a white form.
(Though at least the mineral's real name, Jadarite, still sounds suitably comic-book)
""When I was moving into my new house a few years ago we were having all our kitchen stuff delivered and my then-partner got off the phone, turned to me and said 'the fridge men are coming,'" explains Miéville. "Now, it seems to me that there are two kinds of people: those that hear that sentence and think 'oh good, delivery of the white goods', and then there's those people who imagine a kind of enormous cyborg thing..." Miéville trails off. There's absolutely no doubting which camp he falls into."
Which goes some way towards explaining why I will always forgive China Miéville his politics and his endings. Though I've not yet obtained Un Lun Dun, simply because I already have a ridiculous amount to read at the moment.
