Author: KokkieH

On how dumb we all were in the eighties

The wife and I have been revisiting our youth lately – we have been watching MacGyver. Remember him?

For all my readers who were only born in the nineties (you poor dears), MacGyver was the epitome of cool a decade earlier. If things seemed impossible, if it was a situation that not James Bond, G.I. Joe or Chuck Norris could handle, they would send in MacGyver. Be it an AI-controlled security system gone crazy, Amazonian army ants, a rebel army or a kid stuck down a well, MacGyver could solve the problem. And he did this without radio-controlled invisible heat-seeking-missile-firing cars, cell phones or Facebook. MacGyver needed only his trusted Swiss Army-knife (in those days you were still allowed to take them on planes) and whatever else happened to be lying around at the moment. (And he had a mullet. Just like Chuck Norris and Billy Ray Cyrus. It was cool back then. Like Chuck Norris and Billy Ray Cyrus. Thank goodness some things change.)

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Song Title Challenge #3: If I Ever Get Around to Living – John Mayer

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is If I Ever Get Around to Living by John Mayer. Thanks to Emma at A Wordless Blogger for suggesting it. I had lots of fun writing it. Hope you do too.

If I ever get around to living

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Winter has come

I have already posted today, but I have to tell you all that it’s bloody cold over here. Winter isn’t coming, it’s here. At any moment I’m expecting a white walker to knock on the door and there’s not a sliver of obsidian in the house. (If you didn’t get that you really should read more.)

To make matters worse, Wifey has a bout of flu (she refused to get her flu-shot in spite of my repeated admonitions (read nagging)) and has monopolised all the blankets in the house.

In other news, I passed one thousand views on If all else fails…use a hammer this week, so yay!

Good luck with Monday and have a great week.

KokkieH Reviews Les Misérables

I’m one of those people who would have a serious problem if you were to ask me what is my favourite book, author, song, composer, even genre. My tastes are simply too broad and I like too many things. However, if you ask me about my favourite movie I can answer in a heartbeat. No, it’s not The Lord of the Rings trilogy or Narnia (though I’d give them a close second place). It’s the 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, starring Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush. This movie was my first introduction to Hugo’s epic tale and, while I have yet to read the book, I believe it is the single most beautiful story ever written. More about that another time.

I am also very familiar with the musical, having watched the 1995 recording of Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert several times and listening to the tape until it left this world for a better place. This is another area where I can easily tell you my favourite. Les Misérables has second place, after Phantom of the Opera (in this case music trumps story).

When I heard the musical was being turned into a movie, I was simultaneously excited and apprehensive.

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A new Doctor already?

It’s official. The BBC has possibly already found the new Doctor and is maybe going to announce it some time this weekend. We cannot know for sure. However, it’s apparently now down to three actors, though this can just be complete speculation. No one knows for sure. Everything is based on rumours. The fans are going more crazy than in the run-up to the season 7 finale.

The three actors on the short list according to Starburst Magazine is Domhnall Gleeson, Daniel Kaluuya, and Dominic Cooper. Let’s take a very quick look at them: Continue reading “A new Doctor already?” →