Fanfic Turn This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. So, today’s fanfic is another case of the title song providing inspiration for the story; actually, it's one of the songs
Food Kitchen Piracy I like to cook. Not in a “creating fancy five-course dinners” kind of way, more “it’s nice to enjoy home-cooked food that required more effort than popping a ready
Fanfic Just a Day This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I’ve been writing an anthology of Life is Strange fanfics based on an album (Echo Park by Feeder) but I've been
Fanfic XXIV This fanfic was originally begun back in the summer of 2002, when there’d only been one season of 24, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was the
Fanfic Choke Unlike the first story in my Echo Park anthology, the second one does actually take at least some inspiration from the song it’s named for. The lyrics talk about
Fanfic Realisations The reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise was probably my favourite game from 2015, not least because it appealed to my inner femslasher. So much so, that it inspired my
Fanfic Echo Park This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. Artwork by the fabulous @starsonherwheels. It was almost immediately after I finished my first playthrough of Life is Strange that I started
Fanfic Purple So, it turns out that today is International Fanworks day 2017; somehow I missed the memo. I read an awful lot of fanfic, but when it comes to writing it
Blog Wherefore art thou Zorac? I often get people asking me why I chose the pseudonym “zorac”. Actually, that’s a lie; people very rarely ask me that, but I’m going to tell you
Games Not quite the Neverending Story I recently played through The Longest Journey – an entry of that oft-neglected genre of computer games, the point-and-click adventure. Following on from the purely text-based games which have been around
Movies Movie misdirection… This post contains spoilers for Bridge to Terabithia. And the “totally misleading trailer of the week” award goes to Bridge to Terabithia. Given the current cinematic drought, I was happy
Movies Warm and fuzzy… So, I went to see Hot Fuzz today, another excellent piece of it’s-not-quite-a-spoof-it’s-just-really-funny cinema from the team behind Shaun of the Dead and the ultimate fanboy sitcom, Spaced.
Food Chocolate Chestnut Cake Here’s a recipe for you, stolen borrowed from my mother. A rather fine pudding henceforth to be known as Chocolate Chestnut Coronary[1] Cake: 8oz dark cooking chocolate 8oz
Theatre Spamalot Spamalot was, quite frankly, a disappointment. Yes, it was good fun, but… Well, for starters, it didn’t help that our seats in the gods were terrible – cramped, and with
Movies No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die! This evening I donned my dinner jacket (de rigueur for Bond premières in Oxford) and headed out to Casino Royale. James Bond is back – and how. It is a reboot
Movies In which Zorac lambasts a Miyazaki film This post contains spoilers for Howl's Moving Castle. So, I saw Howl’s Moving Castle yesterday. Speaking as someone who first read the book many, many years ago and has
Movies Revenge of the Sith This post contains spoilers for Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith Well, it was better than the last two, but still suffered from many of the same
Music The Wildest Times in the World Yesterday really didn’t get off to the best of starts, due to a severe lack of sleep, and that was followed up by public transport working against me. Still,
Drink House Gin & Tonic This is one I reached after a few variations. As served at various fandom meetups. Zorac's House Special G&T 1½oz Bombay Sapphire ½oz Gordon's Sloe Gin 1
Drink Three Colours Orange Inventing cocktails can be fun, and it's hard to go wrong with lots of rum and citrus juice... Three Colours Orange 1oz Navy Rum 1oz Morgan's Spiced 1oz Malibu ½oz
Music Pyjamarama On Saturday evening I went to see Bryan Ferry. There was some amount of concern as regards the weather, and also his recent troubles with laryngitis which lead to some
Games What is the Secret of Monkey Island™? It’s many, many years since I first played The Secret of Monkey Island™, back in my Amiga days, but I’ve been a fan ever since. For my mind,
Food Mmmm. Cookies… I like cookies. Especially freshly baked ones that are still warm and gooey. Alas, pre-made cookie dough is ruinously expensive in this country. So, after a few tubs of that,
Movies Movie Revue A quick review post for some movies I saw over the weekend: Love Actually: This a first class romantic comedy – the intertwining of the multiple love stories is a really
Movies Everything that has a beginning has an end… …except that in parts of The Matrix Revolutions, that end just couldn’t come soon enough. This post contains spoilers for The Matrix Trilogy. I absolutely loved the original Matrix,
