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    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    If you've not played Destiny now is a really good time to start, the release of the Taken King has fixed a lot of what was wrong with the vanilla game (although I had a lot of fun playing it). The new legendary edition that includes all the DLC and the new expansion is a bargain, a lot of content for the price.

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    Librarians, Liberals and Lesbians*

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    I just finished The Scarlet Gospels, Clive Barkers long awaited follow up to The Hellbound Heart (The original Hellraiser story). It starts off all right but the second half is just terrible, I very nearly gave up on it 80% of the way through. I think when Clive Barker nearly died a few years ago he must have made a deal with the devil - you take my imagination and let me live.

    A poem a day.

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    The Day the Saucers Came

    by Neil Gaiman

     

    That Day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,

    Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,

    And the people of Earth stood and

    stared as they descended,

    Waiting, dry-mouthed, to find out what waited inside for us

    And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow

    But you didn’t notice it because

     

    That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence,

    Was the day that the graves gave up their dead

    And the zombies pushed up through soft earth

    or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable,

    Came towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran,

    But you did not notice this because

     

    On the saucer day, which was zombie day, it was

    Ragnarok also, and the television screens showed us

    A ship built of dead-men’s nails, a serpent, a wolf,

    All bigger than the mind could hold,

    and the cameraman could

    Not get far enough away, and then the Gods came out

    But you did not see them coming because

     

    On the saucer-zombie-battling-gods

    day the floodgates broke

    And each of us was engulfed by genies and sprites

    Offering us wishes and wonders and eternities

    And charm and cleverness and true

    brave hearts and pots of gold

    While giants feefofummed across

    the land and killer bees,

    But you had no idea of any of this because

     

    That day, the saucer day, the zombie day

    The Ragnarok and fairies day,

    the day the great winds came

    And snows and the cities turned to crystal, the day

    All plants died, plastics dissolved, the day the

    Computers turned, the screens telling

    us we would obey, the day

    Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars,

    And all the bells of London were sounded, the day

    Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day,

    The fluttering capes and arrival of

    the Time Machine day,

    You didn’t notice any of this because

    you were sitting in your room, not doing anything

    not even reading, not really, just

    looking at your telephone,

    wondering if I was going to call.

    iZombie

    in Comics in other media

    Posted

    It is totally Pushing Daisies meets Dead Like Me.

     

    I watched episode one and wasn't really that bothered with watching anymore. The quote above has made me give it a second chance. I'm up to episode 4 and it's quite enjoyable.

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