Liquid bonving

[alexsarll]

A great weekend for sport, with the first UK bonving of the season (or indeed, several seasons). The beauty of bonving is that it's such a ridiculous activity, and takes place so infrequently, as to render talent and skill deeply marginal; few trends develop, and former championship contestants can quite easily find themselves trousered.
Obviously I can't pretend that was the only sport this weekend - there was also some football, taking up a couple of minutes of Doctor Who which I presume Matt Smith very much enjoyed filming, having himself only narrowly been saved from a life of footballism by some injury or other (o felix culpa). 'The Lodger' was a lovely little episode, with the emphasis on 'little'; the tacked-on suggestion that the (unexplained) ship might work its way through the whole population of Earth aside, this was about some disappearances in Colchester, nothing more, and before that, about one man who needs a bit of a nudge to sort his life out. Insufficient Pond, clearly, but a lovely Matt Smith showcase. And next week - Drahvin! Chelonians! Monsieur Moffat, you are spoiling us.

Other recent activities: an Oxford Dons read-through (repurposed for radio, it's now longer and wronger); Will Ferrell as George W Bush, hilarious as you'd expect without being as obvious as it could have been; the Bowie Bar, with some frankly scandalous behaviour from one rock star in particular, though I don't think that was what caused one of the DJs to have a meltdown in the Gents; improving my recent ONLY WAR average; seeing Daniel Kitson perform what I hadn't realised was the final ever 66A Church Road show, a very moving and only incidentally comedic meditation on home, and memory, and the evils of the property market, which I had also seen at a very early work-in-progress show, making me feel I've lived with it just like he lived in the eponymous flat, getting me into a strange sort of self-reflexive nostalgia for a show about nostalgia.

Charlie Stross on the perils of near future science fiction; it's hard to outrun the advancing present.

Comments

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look at the Guardian article, I could certainly do with more information on that idea.

Good stuff. What army you playing in 40K then?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think it was by Ian Jack, though I have now recycled my copy so cannot swear to that.

I favour the non-humanoid, ravenous swarm of Tyranids, especially since they picked up some ranged anti-tank capabilities. Yourself?

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

I was an Ork player originally. I like hitting things until they die. Not played for a good while though and I've since acquired a sense of tactics that I'd love to try out one day.

I have a lot of Warhammer Fantasy Orcs I could sell, but I'm keeping hold of them until the urge to play overtakes me again, which it does eventually, usually.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I used to play Fantasy a lot more back in the day, so I find the changes there much more offputting (splitting the Undead, indeed!) - whereas I was only an occasional 40K player, so while I miss a few of the more outlandish concepts, it's far less jarring an adjustment.