• ThriftBooks

    04 February 2022

    A very happy Shanster in the USA got in touch with me recently to say they had picked up an entire set of my Cirque Du Freak books at a bargain price on ThriftBooks, and suggested I bring the site...

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  • Bay House LRC

    03 February 2022

    I was stunned when the staff of Bay House Learning Resource Centre in the UK posted a photo of a sculpture of a transforming Grubbs Grady, based on the hardback cover of the British edition of Wolf...

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  • Pacified Patricians

    02 February 2022

    I did another online school event yesterday, this time with the first year students of Patrician Secondary School in Newbridge, County Kildare, in Ireland. I had been scheduled to do the event...

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  • 10 Worst Vampire Movies?!?

    31 January 2022

    Love it or loathe it, the Cirque Du Freak movie still generates a lot of debate, even all these years later. Since I had nothing to do with the making of the movie, I'm always happy to present both...

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  • Gaia’s REAL first trip to the cinema

    30 January 2022

    Although Mrs Shan and I took our daughter Gaia to the cinema a few times when she was a baby (the Odeon cinema in Limerick used to have a special screening once a week, where parents could come...

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  • WOMBO: First Blood Part II

    29 January 2022

    If today's post was a movie title, it would be... WOMBO: First Blood Part II

     

    A few weeks back I posted some images that had been created on WOMBO, a computer program that generates art based on...

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