tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72431322011-04-22T00:57:40.175+01:00Musings on life, film, books, writing and religion from the author of <i>The Dreaming Pool</i>, <i>The King Never Dies</i>, <i>What Rough Beast</i>, <i>Jigsaw Men</i> and the forthcoming <i>Kingston To Cable</i>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.comBlogger5771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-56679872388261674022008-11-23T16:15:00.001Z2008-11-23T16:17:14.627Z

Time to update your bookmarks and feed readers, folks - Stained, Glass Windows has moved to a new address: http://gary-greenwood.blogspot.com/Different address, different colour scheme, same old babbling.

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By the time you folks read this, Ly and I should be ensconced in a nice cottage in the middle of the Brecon Beacons waiting for friends and family to arrive as a surprise for her birthday. It's been fun organising everything and everyone but it's also been a bugger of a time trying to keep the whole thing a secret from Ly for the last few months. She's too smart for her own good and knew

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-10093317240513163512008-11-19T21:09:00.002Z2008-11-20T17:26:11.507Z

. . . to be excited by this: official skins and themes for Gmail from Google? Well too bad because I am. Google are releasing coloured themes for Gmail over the next few days and have supplied a sample of them which you can see on the left. Seriously, if you're not using Gmail you should be - it simply is much, much better than Microsoft Outlook and way better than Hotmail or Yahoo mail, all

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-20181227110857191182008-11-19T17:01:00.000Z2008-11-19T17:04:27.021Z

Stupidly, stupidly busy in work at the moment, hence the lack of ranting and raving once more. Via my mate Dave and the New Humanist blog, though, here's something that made me chuckle: God Trumps! Back to more regular posting soon.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-88320902428293095982008-11-13T19:46:00.001Z2008-11-13T20:41:51.066Z

I try and be a bit skeptical about newspaper stories that say things have been banned - there's the recent one about Oxford council supposedly having banned Christmas lights that was reported in several places like the Telegraph (which you'd kinda expect) but also in the Guardian (which I kinda expected better from being the namby pamby, left wing liberal fellow that I am.) Needless to say, both

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-1692329130747460462008-11-10T20:56:00.002Z2008-11-10T21:45:02.184Z

Never touch the stuff, usually, but last night I was given the choice of that or lager - no contest, really. Myself and Tim headed off to Bristol to see the excellent Flogging Molly at the Carling Academy and as he'd very kindly offered to drive, I set about the beer. We had a couple in the Hatchet across the road as we were well early for the gig, but in the Academy itself, as I said, it was

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-46294692624654748432008-11-07T14:29:00.000Z2008-11-07T14:40:22.193Z

Just catching up with stuff and found a couple of things that made me chuckle - first two things related to the recent US election: First something from Pundit Kitchen: and, just to show I'm not biased, something from Newsbiscuit: and finally something from b3ta that just made me laugh so much while feeling guilty for doing so and which will mean nothing to younger or foreign readers: Have a

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-68312260275941198602008-11-05T21:29:00.000Z2008-11-05T21:40:31.055Z

I'm glad Obama won the election (I've no doubt he'll be glad to hear that) though despite all the hoopla and celebrations, the guy is still another politician. Is he better than Bush, McCain, Cheney, Wolfowitz etc? Oh, no doubt about that right now, but once the party's over and he actually moves into the White House we'll have to see what he does. I'm hopeful but then I was hopeful when Blair

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-14641730325517205802008-11-04T18:43:00.000Z2008-11-04T18:49:44.015Z

Couldn't give a monkey's about the whole Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand debacle that appeared to have overtaken the British news recently, nor about the complaints about Jeremy Clarkson's joke on last Sunday's edition of Top Gear (which I actually found quite funny). In fact, here's where they come: Now, can we have some real news, please?  Like finding out who's going to be the next US President? 

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Ten years ago today, myself and Tim Lebbon were launching our books: The Dreaming Pool from me and Faith In The Flesh from him. Tim had managed to con our local rag, the South Wales Argus, into interviewing us and we'd had a hasty chat with a reporter some weeks before plus a photo shoot at the local park which ended with the reporter laid on his back taking our picture and telling us to look

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-87154568639766962742008-10-28T20:06:00.000Z2008-10-28T20:10:24.042Z

Despite being an old man who needs his sleep and gets up at just gone 6 every morning, I stayed up past my bed time last night to watch Dead Set, the zombie series set in and around the Big Brother house. All in all, it was pretty good - gory and frantic but not overtly violent (except for the last scene involving a fire extinguisher prompting the line "Get them in the head.  You have to get

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-35519726513942423952008-10-24T17:29:00.000+01:002008-10-24T17:38:44.147+01:00

Been stupidly busy this week hence the lack of ranting and raving around here.  Had a bunch of things I wanted to post about, as well, including my brother-in-law Ed running the Cardiff half marathon last week in two hours and five minutes - good work, fella! I missed the chance to babble about the atheist bus as well, though the BBC report is worth reading if only for the quote from Stephen

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-11141956178698024442008-10-18T17:30:00.000+01:002008-10-18T17:36:09.122+01:00

Well according to the very limited What Type of Writer Should You Be? quiz: You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from. And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi. Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics... Your own little universe could leave an

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-13773058423303017482008-10-16T15:47:00.000+01:002008-10-16T15:49:20.591+01:00

Passed on from Spike ages ago so props to him, this will make very little sense unless you've seen The Dark Knight:

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-51011007695772573382008-10-11T11:58:00.000+01:002008-10-11T12:52:15.063+01:00

This is likely to be a long rambling post about a recent, serious news story - if you're looking for a laugh then for today you should head elsewhere. Just over a week ago I caught a story on the BBC about a UK blogger who had been arrested under the Obscene Publications Act. The man in question, Darryn Walker, had allegedly written a twelve page story detailing the kidnap, rape and murder of

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-41905684648782623222008-10-08T16:45:00.000+01:002008-10-08T16:47:51.110+01:00

Went to see Amanda Palmer in Bristol last night; Ly's a fan of Palmer's previous project, the Dresden Dolls, and having found out about the gig we figured we'd go along, accompanied by the erstwhile Rich and Trace who very kindly drove us over.  I'll admit, old curmudgeon that I am, I found myself amused by some of the audience as we waited - predominately a sort of art/theatre student crowd (the

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-87381121525637899852008-10-03T17:49:00.000+01:002008-10-03T17:54:44.924+01:00

It's done - Cuckoo God, which I started in March of last year but really kicked into gear six months ago, is finished. Roughly 92,000 hand written words, just over two A4 pads and three pens later, my sixth novel is complete.  As I've said on more than one occasion it's going to need one fuck of an edit partly to tidy up the early parts of the story when I wasn't entirely sure where it was going

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-14151718890796844862008-10-02T17:39:00.000+01:002008-10-02T17:39:00.196+01:00

The Churches Advertising Network - the picture on the left is from their website, by the way - has apparently launched a competition for people to tell the Nativity story in 30 seconds, prompted by "a poll last year which suggested only 12% of adults knew the facts of the biblical Christmas story." Brought up in Britain, I know the basics of the story of the birth of Jesus, remembering it from

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-65082297733920170242008-09-29T17:03:00.000+01:002008-09-29T17:09:16.618+01:00

. . . or maybe two. Finished chapter eleven of Cuckoo God yesterday, bringing the whole thing to about 85,750 words.  This means that there's going to be definitely twelve, probably thirteen chapters after all as various characters still hadn't arrived at where they needed to be by the end of eleven which, in turn, meant that the big confrontation is about to happen in this next chapter.  As

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-35097689829986026962008-09-26T19:57:00.000+01:002008-09-26T20:03:07.850+01:00

Did a bunch of writing on Cuckoo God today, going over 84,000 words (approx) and starting to get a definite sense that it's almost finished. I know I mentioned before that it might be twelve or thirteen chapters - I'm writing eleven at the moment - but as close as I am, I'm still not sure which way that's going to go.  I guess the characters will have to decide that. Also banged around a few

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-28008755388096157342008-09-23T21:12:00.000+01:002008-09-23T21:18:01.549+01:00

Blogs and wikis and such are supposed to be more interactive - less about you passively sitting there, slack jawed with awe at my witticisms and polemics and more about contributing comments, joining in on polls and now, with one of the latest offerings from Blogger, giving your reactions to my posts. At the bottom of this (and every other) post are a couple of buttons that tell me and others

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-15648578307222472162008-09-23T16:22:00.000+01:002008-09-23T16:26:31.080+01:00

Another FantasyCon in Nottingham over with for another year; the hangover's lifted, I'm back in work and my body has started to accept more than a diet of piss-poor John Smiths bitter and Marlboro Menthols. All in all, a return to normality. A good Con this year - as usual, it must be said - and had a whale of a time catching up with old friends, drinking beer, smoking fags and talking bollocks.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-83694396374869616262008-09-18T10:43:00.001+01:002008-09-18T10:45:04.941+01:00

I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere for your fix of ginger rantings over the coming weekend - it's that time of year again when Ly and I head off to Nottingham to drink beer and talk bollocks.FantasyCon has come round again and I'm looking forward to meeting up with the usual gang of reprobates and raconteurs and indulging in fine conversation over a pint or two.See you when we get back but

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-34865889143672945782008-09-17T21:04:00.000+01:002008-09-17T21:06:48.450+01:00

Oh, wait . . . From the wonderful Worsplosion! 

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-5976125023023619562008-09-15T17:33:00.000+01:002008-09-15T17:35:00.817+01:00

Chapter Eleven of Cuckoo God is well under way and today the book broke the 80,000 word barrier.  Not a hundred percent certain at the moment but I think it's likely to go to twelve chapters rather than thirteen at the moment; characters are arriving at the place they need to be (beside the sea-side, beside the sea) to face off against each other in a timely fashion so this should be where it all

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-43162597315210935762008-09-13T17:28:00.000+01:002008-09-13T17:28:00.924+01:00

I'm a big fan of Mythbusters - it's fun and geeky and you get a bit of science thrown in occasionally but it's mostly watching people build stuff from scratch and then blow the shit out of it or fire guns at it. I envy them their skills and their gunpowder budget! You all know what happens when you breathe in helium, right?  Hell you might have done it before now.  Check this out:

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-86316812692902232242008-09-12T17:17:00.002+01:002008-09-12T17:17:00.310+01:00

The people above are those that I shall be voting for in the next general election. They are, clockwise from top left: a "busty model"; a singer of mawkish songs; the actress cast as the next Red Sonja because she's banging the director of the forthcoming movie; a random baby; a fictional FBI agent that some people find attractive; and a twat. Despite the sterling lack of parliamentary skills,

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-78099367544442910652008-09-11T17:04:00.001+01:002008-09-11T17:04:00.548+01:00

My mate Dave sent me a link to a lovely little site called Wordle a while back - basically you input a whole bunch of text or a link to a website with a feed and it'll produce a nice image showing how often the same words appear in the text by means of size. The more times a word appears in the text, the larger it appears in the image.I tried creating a Wordle based on this blog but it wasn't

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-52450581282530421372008-09-10T16:37:00.000+01:002008-09-10T16:38:51.624+01:00

Chapter Ten of Cuckoo God came to a close today, bringing the book to approximately 77,800 words or so. There are definitely two more chapters to go at this point, though that might stretch to three depending on what the characters want to do; I can't control the little buggers, no matter how much I try.Because of that, I've revised the word count in the progress metre on the right hand side

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-65219470136871693042008-09-08T17:23:00.002+01:002008-09-09T16:40:02.373+01:00

Managed to get back into the swing of things on Cuckoo God today - the last week or two have been a bit slow due to having some time off work and doing other things as well as then being busy when returning to work.  Still, it carries on and has now topped 76,000 words with the end of Chapter Ten in sight and either two or three left.  One of the main second string characters - if you'll forgive

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-11573442289348616872008-09-06T18:16:00.001+01:002008-09-06T18:21:23.014+01:00

I'm not one for internet speak - I've laughed out loud at plenty of things that have ended up in my in-box over the years, but I've never LOL'd in reply and certainly never ROFL no matter how funny the picture or clip might have been. Perusing my feeds in Google Reader this afternoon, however, I came across something that - for some reason - makes me want to utter amazement and joy as only an

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-59744889029518581192008-09-05T17:04:00.000+01:002008-09-05T17:06:43.125+01:00

Been a while since I linked to a B3ta challenge but they're doing one on extended film scenes over here. I've just been chortling for some time, but the one that made me chuckle was this: Ah, if only! 

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-10744796738400559922008-09-03T16:30:00.002+01:002008-09-03T16:36:24.631+01:00

Yes, I'm writing to you from the wonderful new Google Chrome web browser - clean and fast, it's very nice.Couple of things to get used to after having used Firefox for so long and being reliant on the wonderful GUtil add-on to get me around the numerous Google apps I use at the click of a button, but it's very, very good on first impressions.Bookmarks need a little more work, I think, but so far

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-85114944246444664842008-09-02T14:18:00.002+01:002008-09-02T14:20:44.101+01:00

Google are releasing their own web browser called Chrome.This evening . . . at 6pm GMT . . . when I shall be going out to celebrate my mate Dave's 40th birthday.I wonder if it's too late to cancel the curry . . . ?

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-31584046499088514102008-08-29T08:39:00.004+01:002008-08-29T08:47:57.345+01:00

If there's one book you need to buy this year (now that Kingston To Cable's been pushed back to next year, of course) then it's this one:Yes, I know Paul - we've had more than a couple of laughs over more than a couple of beers - and he's an absolutely top bloke who swears with more gusto, frequency and imagination than anyone else I know, but that's not why I'm urging you to buy this.The guy

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-85983705020619507532008-08-28T09:01:00.000+01:002008-08-28T09:03:41.204+01:00

From the wonderful indexed blog.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-47494994130004948872008-08-25T16:50:00.003+01:002008-08-25T16:52:38.137+01:00

Yes, it's my birthday today - a massive 39 years old which, many others have reminded me in the weeks leading up to today, means that next year is THE BIG ONE!I'm busy enjoying today (and the rest of this week as I've got a week off from work) far too much to worry about that, though!Thanks for the cards and stuff - it might be a bit quiet round here as Ly and I plan to be off doing stuff.Speak

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-45783636316599621172008-08-20T16:43:00.002+01:002008-08-20T16:49:17.513+01:00

Apologies for the lack of posts - work's been kinda hectic these last few weeks as I was the only one from my team that was in for three weeks. Still, only tomorrow in work and then a week or so off to relax and visit friends and relatives.Anyhow, the real reason for this post concerns the wonders of Facebook. Now I'm not about to change my tune and suddenly start evangelising about this. I'm

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-36743975278543201012008-08-14T18:42:00.001+01:002008-08-14T18:44:37.189+01:00

Click for bigger; shamelessly stolen from b3ta.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-85510375871463172202008-08-08T15:28:00.001+01:002008-08-08T15:30:40.601+01:00

Work continues apace on Cuckoo God - I topped over 200 pages this week so am now well over 70,000 words and this afternoon I finished Chapter Nine. It's taken me a while, but we finally learn who/what the Cuckoo God is/was and why he's called that. It was a fun piece to write, I have to admit, basically making up an origin myth for a religion. Plus two of my other characters got to meet and

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-2793472753867990512008-08-05T21:03:00.002+01:002008-08-05T21:07:06.412+01:00

And it fecking rocked!It was showing at our local cinema this evening for a one night only preview showing and we went straight from work.Can't wait for it to be released generally so we can go and see it again!

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-7569463851970087522008-08-04T13:59:00.002+01:002008-08-04T14:03:36.167+01:00

The Goodies 7, Monty Python 6.A hard fought match, with no clear leader for any length of time, the score even going to 6 all and heading for a draw before a last minute burst by The Goodies rewarded them with the winning point.I'll be honest, I was expecting the Pythons to win more because of their ubiquity than anything else; I'm willing to bet that most people can name more sketches by the

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-63234681740370909372008-07-31T16:56:00.002+01:002008-07-31T17:00:27.907+01:00

I'm sure I've mentioned before that when it comes to my writing, I'm not one to plot before hand - I don't have reams of notes for any of the books I've written detailing what will happen and in which chapter. I very simply start at the beginning with an idea, a character or two and a scene and just run with it. As the story progresses, more and more things present themselves and, if I'm lucky,

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-37570514208399857932008-07-27T18:52:00.003+01:002008-07-27T19:03:21.006+01:00

My wife's a great one for throwing out questions that, at first glance, have neither rhyme nor reason. We can be mid-conversation about something magnificent or mundane and sooner or later a question will bubble up along the lines of "If you could only have one . . ." or "If you had to choose between . . ."Earlier this week we'd gone out for an evening meal at a Chinese restaurant and while we

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-16074833625261163232008-07-26T19:55:00.003+01:002008-07-26T20:07:42.375+01:00

Ly and I went to see The Dark Knight on Thursday and damn me it was good.All the hype you've heard, all the praise being heaped on the late Heath Ledger's performance? All perfectly justified.I'm not going to do a big, full blown review - the film just worked a treat with every performance splendidly done. With a cast that includes Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman as co-stars it's

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-53328255674766220822008-07-22T16:42:00.002+01:002008-07-22T16:45:30.880+01:00

Chapter eight of Cuckoo God came to a close this afternoon and, while pondering where my characters will want to go next, part of the ending dropped into my head - the image of two characters battling each other for a particular reason just appeared in my mind's eye and, as they're both visually interesting, it's an image that stuck.I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get there or what will

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-82860876576722410962008-07-17T16:59:00.003+01:002008-07-17T17:06:49.994+01:00

This post's title to be shouted in a true darts scorer's voice only - do it now!Yep, one hundred and eighty pages of Cuckoo God now under my belt, or at least on the page, totaling approximately 63,000 words. This is easily the second largest piece of writing I've done and, as I've said before, it'll need one fuck of an edit but it's coming together nicely.A secondary character has moved further

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-68286543690870357912008-07-12T19:30:00.002+01:002008-07-12T19:31:47.784+01:00

It's because of pictures like this that I love b3ta:

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Yes, it's true - I want to leave the job that I currently do (and enjoy, by the way - odd, isn't it?) and go and work somewhere else. Somewhere I can almost be my own boss, free to pick and choose what I do and who I deal with. You know, like a registrar employed by a local authority.What's that? Local authority employees can't actually pick and choose what they do in their jobs? Try telling that

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-37524741181304120142008-07-10T17:54:00.003+01:002008-07-10T18:13:26.400+01:00

So the Synod appears to have seen sense and said, "Oh, okay, you people without penises can actually be bishops." Of course, there will always be dissenters when it comes to religion and apparently some Bishops have threatened to leave the C of E and defect to the Catholic Church because they know damn well that women shouldn't be Bishops!According to this Beeb report:"Following six hours of

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Over the last couple of weeks, fast approaching two months, my boss has been off work due to illness.  Nothing terminal, thankfully, but something which restricts his movements and ability to get into work.  During that time, myself and my colleagues have been carrying on, getting what needs to be done finished while waiting for his return. Today, however, our Divisional Director said that as

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-1926167293500531732008-07-02T20:39:00.002+01:002008-07-02T20:46:42.832+01:00

In more ways than one, but I'll come to that in just a moment.Another pen bites the dust with 161 hand written pages of Cuckoo God complete. New characters keep introducing themselves and the story still barrels along - I really am going to need to do one hell of an edit once it's finished.Oh, and the main character decided to change his name. For the second time. Yep, about 56,000 words in and

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-90051052566586299122008-06-28T22:46:00.002+01:002008-06-28T22:48:56.158+01:00

Someone, who shall remain anonymous, sent me this saying: "As your blog is called Stained Glass Windows, I thought this might be appropriate as an image to use in it somewhere."Shocking, I tell you, simply shocking.

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Ah, shit - just checked my feed reader and found out George Carlin has died.Bugger.If you don't know the man's work, shame on you - go over to YouTube and check him out.

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I've been running Google Analytics on this blog since last October - it's one of those free tools that, for commercial sites, allows you to see what visitors are looking for, how they found you as well as the number of visits and where they're from.For myself, not having a huge amount of traffic nor anything to sell, really, it's more of a curiosity and I like looking at where people have come

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-88955527070556829212008-06-23T17:15:00.002+01:002008-06-23T17:30:50.875+01:00

There are some things that are just wrong - as I type that line, it sounds so familiar that it probably means I've used it before, but hey, not only has this blog being going over four years (thus running the risk of repetition) but I'm still right.Back when I was a lad, my friends and I were all getting into heavy metal music and each had our favourite bands. Mine was AC/DC and while the

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-13013693767601405652008-06-22T18:31:00.005+01:002008-06-22T18:43:29.991+01:00

Went to Pontypridd yesterday for what was essentially a mini writing convention of the fantastic, science fiction and horror. It was fun not only meeting up with the usual suspects of the Welsh writing contingency but also seeing Jasper Fforde give an entertaining talk on his books. Both Ly and I have read the lot and were pleased that after listening to him, a couple of our friends sought out

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Ly and I managed to go and see M Night Shyamalamadingdong's The Happening this afternoon and, as half-suspected, it was pants.The basic premise - that, for some unknown reason, people start killing themselves en masse one day - is a good one to start off with, but that's easily the most interesting thing about the film. Almost immediately we have Mark Wahlberg (who has been very good in other

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. . . and you know how that finishes.Just a handful of things that caught my eye today as I trawled the Inter-ma-web; first news that the Vatican has banned Angels & Demons, the film based on the piece of shit book by Dan Brown from filming in Rome's churches or the Vatican itself as it "is "an offence against God" and "wounds common religious feelings"."And is also based on a piece of shit

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My mate Dave sent a link to the site of a bookshop where the owner/workers have collected stupid quotes from their customers. My favourite is probably: I am looking for a certain autobiography, but I don't know who the author is. Can you help me? That might be difficult!although this one made me laugh and groan in equal measure: (family walking by the shop) Dad, look a bookstore!

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Over the years, I've met many writers and had conversations with them (usually with a beer or two) about the whole writing process thing. I've known some writers who write out lists of questions for their characters to answer, a tool that helps those writers get to know their characters before the story even begins. I've heard of one writer who plots out his novels in such detail that he can wake

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-63191642050405567092008-06-08T11:00:00.000+01:002008-06-08T11:00:01.797+01:00

Blimey, four years today since I started this thing. Makes you think, don't it?

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Just a quick one - I saw this report over at the BBC about Google being sued by a coalition of privacy campaigners over its apparent breach of Californian privacy laws. The crux of the suit seems to be around Google failing to "conspicuously post its privacy policy on its website".As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of Google's products but I'm not going to defend them over this just because

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We're back from holiday and had a great time. We relaxed a lot but also got to see a fair few places and things - including the Bayeux Tapestry and the Omaha Beach D-Day landing site which I have to admit was a lot more affecting than I was expecting. It's taken a couple of days to get back into the swing of work and normal life but I guess we're back there now.I managed to get a little bit of

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Ly and I are away to Normandy for a week so I'm afraid you'll have to go elsewhere for your fix of witticisms and sarcasm for a while.Speak when we get back!

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Ly and I went to see Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull this afternoon, making a determined effort to see it on the opening day, something I've only done once before for Revenge Of The Sith.Nineteen years on and all the elements are there: the action, the humour, the maps showing his flight path, the whip and the wisecracks. The magic (meaning the Ark of the Covenant, the Sankara

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-29626699743981135812008-05-20T19:55:00.003+01:002008-05-20T20:00:10.462+01:00

Feast your eyes, my lovelies: the cover to my next novel, Kingston To Cable has been sent over by the artist Darius Hinks: Does that look cool or what?

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My views on religion should be pretty clear to everyone by now: it's all just made up stories, folks. For me, one man's holy book is just a collection of myths and legends often used to justify various means and ends, sometimes in starkly differing ways.However, despite the cynicism and outright mockery I display here on my own blog, I hope that I'm a little more respectful when I'm around others

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. . . and his name is Neil Marshall.Ly and I saw Doomsday this afternoon and for those of you who were tempted to go and see it, don't bother: it's shit.Really, really, really shit.Other than an all too brief glimpse of the gorgeous Scottish countryside there's not a single redeeming feature in it. A preposterous script that reads like the best parts of Mad Max II forced into 28 Days Later, this

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-9437017868941043702008-05-16T21:27:00.002+01:002008-05-16T21:29:54.378+01:00

This summer's shaping up to be a good one for films.

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In the quiet, leafy village of Prince Albert on the Rise, dark dealings are afoot, at least according to some.Outspoken priest Reverend Gerry Greengrass of the First United Church of Knowledge has spent the last couple of weeks writing to the ombudsman, the village council, his MP, the Women's Institute, the library, the local book club, the bimonthly meeting of the knitting club, Greggs the

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Ummm . . . why? Didn't this series die on its arse years ago?

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Reached the 110 page mark on Cuckoo God today (been a bit lax over the last week or so what with having some time off) and, finally, have written the all important scene where someone dies.Actually, several people die but only one of them is important in terms of plot.Plus I've begun to detail the bad guy who - since his sideline introduction a few chapters back - has grown into something of an

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-38941194171624169682008-05-10T12:18:00.002+01:002008-05-10T12:24:14.944+01:00

I'm feeling very Web 2.0 lately - allowing you, my lovely readers, to share and partake in this blog, not just read it but become an active participant . . .Sounds like a load of management speak bollocks but there you go. Anyhow, there's another little tool in the side bar on the right. I've been using Google Reader for some time now and one of the things I like about it is the ability to

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Okay, poll's over, folks and the winner is . . .Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers.We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson was enjoying a comfortable lead for some time before Rob - with whom I've swapped a few mails - posted this over on his blog:"Stained, Glass Windows is running a poll on which book blogger Gary should read next. Devil's Cape is losing to Shirley Jackson! . . . Vote for

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-9410882726374330812008-05-05T15:20:00.003+01:002008-05-05T15:23:50.031+01:00

As you can see, the votes have been tallied and the final poll to choose which book I read next is up and running.Choose between Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers, Fluke by Christopher Moore or We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson.You have until midnight GMT on Friday 9th of April to tell me what to read.

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Then go and watch Iron Man in the cinema. Saw it yesterday and damn me if it isn't fantastic!Yes there's incongruities in the film - a weapons manufacturer becomes disgusted with the death caused by his weapons so makes a new, super weapon to kill the bad guys - but don't worry too much about that. It's fun and fast and Robert Downey Jr is superb in the lead role of Tony Stark.So much so that -

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-48775484116504029682008-05-02T22:16:00.002+01:002008-05-02T22:24:05.948+01:00

God knows how many to go.Cuckoo God reached 100 pages of hand written scribbles this week which equals roughly 35,000 words.35,000 words. That's the total word count that The Dreaming Pool reached! I've written the equivalent of my first novel and I'm only on chapter five! The plot point that kicks off the rest of the story hasn't even happened yet*You know, I can still remember being impressed

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-54718662491647014142008-05-02T08:28:00.003+01:002008-05-02T08:29:54.746+01:00

Right then, the polls are up on the right hand side - vote once in each and the winners will go through to the final poll. You have until 23:00 GMT on Sunday to vote.Ah, it's like the local elections all over again.

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I sometimes wish someone would ask me:"Gary, why don't you want to live in Australia?"I'd like to be asked that so I can reply:"Because that's where SPIDERS EAT SNAKES!"Cool pictures, though.

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Right, a week or two ago I asked if you, my faithful half dozen (because that's how many of you lazy sods voted) wanted to choose which book I read next and, with only a few days to go till the end of the poll, it looks like you're going to be doing the choosing.Here's how it's going to work: you'll be choosing fiction only as I'm dying to get on and read Dry Store Room No. 1 - The Secret Life Of

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-15191307181362093862008-04-25T20:25:00.001+01:002008-04-25T20:27:02.735+01:00

. . . but I can't wait.

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. . . and go and watch In Bruges now.Don't give me any excuses about being in work or asleep or needing to look after the kids - bugger off and go and see the funniest, most violent, profanity laden film I've seen for ages.Go on.**Edit** Just checked the imdb.com page about the film (linked above) and noticed there's a "parental guide" section for each film where users can describe various things

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-29456284524844474442008-04-18T18:24:00.001+01:002008-04-18T18:29:17.564+01:00

Though pages aren't a measurement of time or distance, I'm offering them up as a measurement of how long a pen lasts when solely used to write a novel.Yesterday, during my half hour writing session in the lunch time, my faithful pen which I started writing Cuckoo God with stuttered, coughed and finally passed away.Thankfully I had a spare with me - I'd been carrying one for the best part of a

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Looks like I was a little premature on the writing news from last Sunday; what I thought was the start of chapter five of Cuckoo God turned out to be the end of chapter four and chapter five was started today.How foolish of me to think I knew what I was doing . . .

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Here's three things that hack me off in one post: a plea for parochial support referencing a Daily Mail article about a TV vote/talent show.Some young lad appeared on a TV talent show the other night and surprised the judges by singing Pie Jesu with the voice of an angel.It turns out the lad's mum works for the same government department as myself and on the inter-office message board, someone

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-32189670284580418832008-04-13T08:01:00.003+01:002008-04-13T08:07:21.262+01:00

Two and a half weeks after my last little update, Cuckoo God's fourth chapter has just been completed.The main characters have reached a turning point in their relationship and the plot has jumped forward in preparation for the next chapter which should draw the first act to a close if all goes according to plan.It now stands at a shade under 30,000 words and I'm beginning to think it might

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-25687411423359375892008-04-08T17:25:00.002+01:002008-04-08T17:37:45.648+01:00

Well, yes you can, actually.I had a reminder through the post about my car tax today and in the envelope was an organ donor leaflet; rather than go the tedious, old fashioned route of writing and posting, I thought I'd register online, instead. Go and do the same - after all, once you pop off, you're not going to be needing those bits inside you that you never really see, are you?

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-36369788586402234062008-04-07T18:22:00.004+01:002008-04-07T18:32:56.720+01:00

Given the opportunity to play with new gadgets and what not, I had to take advantage.There's a couple of new bits and bobs over in the sidebar: you can now subscribe to the posts in a number of ways, depending on the feed reader you're using which, if you're a Google slut like me, might be Google Reader.There's also some samples from some of the blogs I read using the aforementioned Reader. I've

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Something that my mate Dave sent me ties in quite nicely with something else I was going to mention about our recent trip to London.Whenever we get down there I always try and make time to visit Mega City Comics in Camden Town and usually end up spending more money there than I should (as I did on this trip.) While we're there, we always wander round the Market as well, making a point of checking

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-51813332364976429092008-04-06T12:14:00.002+01:002008-04-06T12:35:03.492+01:00

Been a busy old week, this last one, hence the paucity of postage.Ly and I went to London on Thursday to catch the tour of the Radio 4 show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Two and a bit hours of Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Jeremy Hardy all being given silly things to do by Humphrey Lyttelton and accompanied on the piano by Colin Sell easily ranks as one of the best gigs -

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-26513768460552418182008-04-01T16:07:00.003+01:002008-04-01T16:11:40.569+01:00

Just responded to a mail from Chris over at the lovely Pendragon Press - which I had days ago but had slipped through the net - about Kingston To Cable not being ready for release at FantasyCon this year.It's a shame - would have been nice to launch it when we'd be guaranteed of a bunch of sales but, as Chris said, it should now be out in time for the BFS open night in December.And if it's not, I

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-60374941569620624512008-04-01T15:47:00.003+01:002008-04-01T15:52:42.844+01:00

I've been keeping an eye on the news today in the hopes of finding one or two April Fools stories but it seems fairly quiet. Maybe everyone else, like me, is too damned busy to be making shit up, or at least posting about it.Anyhow, on the theme of April Fools, who else here would just love this to be true?

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-1777292160156397152008-03-26T16:03:00.002Z2008-03-26T16:05:39.561Z

I swear if I didn't have to work to pay the bills I'd get so much more done.However, work has provided me lately with the environment to get some writing completed; half an hour a day I lock myself away in a quiet room and scribble furiously, averaging about 1,000 words per session. It's a little tricky to quantify as it's all handwritten and it might be a little less than that on some days but

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-56234097992684123532008-03-19T12:51:00.003Z2008-03-19T13:24:43.304Z

So apparently, having a religious belief makes you a happier person.That's according to "thousands" of Christians - both Catholic and Protestant - from around Europe; no mention of the happiness brought about by those other, fake religions like Islam, Buddhism, Judaism or Scientology, then? No mention that "thousands" doesn't really mean anything when compared to the "millions" that weren't

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-78430846352711951002008-03-17T20:42:00.003Z2008-03-17T20:49:33.848Z

Following the recent burglary at chez Greenwood, the last week or so has been a round of speaking to the insurers, the police and the glaziers in an attempt to log what was taken and arrange for repairs/replacements to be sorted out.Most of that's still ongoing, but I did have a phone call from Newport CID today - they'd arrested a young scallywag a couple of days ago on suspicion of burglary and

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-85032641343517740432008-03-10T21:59:00.003Z2008-03-10T22:01:05.819Z

Never been able to sit through this thing.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576597736525043943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7243132.post-39737691843433727452008-03-10T21:20:00.002Z2008-03-10T21:44:22.746Z

. . . or Meet The New Sin, Same As The Old Sin as Roger Daltrey might have sung had he been buggered as a choirboy.The Catholic Church, in an effort to make people more aware of the guilt they carry with them, have come up with a bunch of new mortal sins. According to the church, anyone who dies without having confessed a mortal sin will end up in Hell; no joke, these guys really believe in the

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