Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are getting their own TV series (which makes us very, very happy). After that we discover that someone else has discovered a lock of what […]
Literary Loitering
S15E15 – Wanted: Part-Time Rollercoaster Zombie
The erstwhile Brundlefly of British podcasting – also known as The Geek Show – returns for another tongue-in-cheek romp through the hallowed halls of science and technology news, and this time Rob and Graham – who can more often be found together on that notorious hotbed of cultural anarchy called […]
Literary Loitering 80 – Jeff Goldblum: Interdimensional Sex God
S15E11 – Jason Voorhees Ate The Music Industry
Producer Rob and Mark are back with the last episode of The Geek Show for 2017! In the news this week, YouTube attempts to do a music subscription service (again), a Star Wars character popularity poll produces some disturbing Jar Jar-related results, San Francisco think that robots will conquer our […]
Literary Loitering 79 – Selfies With Malice and Forethought
S15E10 – The Children of Tight Jeans
Producer Rob is joined by a rather ill Graham for another turn on our chatter-go-round. We kick things off this week with a look at Facebook’s terrible security strategies before moving on to Google, who are offering people the most frightening and soul-destroying job that anyone could have on the […]
S15E09 – A Red Sock and Two Bills
Literary Loitering 78 – Lie Back and Think of Kierkegaard
Get your ballet dancers and rollercoasters ready because it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and as always the nominations for Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award deliver. After that exciting opening (pun very much intended), it’s a veritable cavalcade of oddities including Sean Penn’s unknown author, Scrabble […]