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Wed, 13:24 : PLR statements are always interesting. Last year, twice as many people took out DETECTIVE than either NECROMANCER or JC:TFI. Wed, 14:32 : RT @davegibbons90: Kubert DC-Marvel crossover! http://t.co/En6S8uYV {via http://t.co/16IX0oSY) Wed, 17:02 : Blissfully, I'd forgotten this. But the internet NEVER forgets. http://t.co/XsHqTROB @KimeCurran @jpsmythe #SuperbowLads Wed, 17:24 : Further to the #SuperbowLads idea, @KimeCurran did this awesome cover. https://t.co/vplxkJ4l You want to read it now, don't you? Don't you? Wed, 17:32 : Found out what was causing the dearth of JOHANNES CABAL: THE FEAR INSTITUTE at Amazon. It's being reprinted and supplies will resume soon. Wed, 17:46 : Worth repeating for folk who may have missed the original announcement, THE FEAR INSTITUTE will be published in North America in November. Wed, 17:47 : The announcement is here: http://t.co/2yQeOhJP Also, the contract includes a fourth Cabal for 2014. Wed, 22:10 : Huzzah! Now to reread Lem's "The Cyberiad" in lovely paperback form, as handsold to me by the equally lovely @EwaSR (who is tall). Thu, 08:40 : RT @denofgeek: Sorry about this, but they're looking to reboot Gremlins. And it looks like it might happen. http://t.co/DxxqkxEc

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Tue, 12:29 : RT @scottsalter5: Nice and sunny in Bath http://t.co/AhakrFeJ Tue, 13:01 : Irked that a new #DanBrown novel is coming? You need COLINTHOLOGY! http://t.co/AtaYS6yf Cheap, for charity, & my story isn't kind to Brown. Tue, 13:59 : RT @GailSimone: I like to loudly mutter, "He's no good to me DEAD" in crowds and on Death Stars. Tue, 14:03 : Good day so far. Been rude about Dan Brown and Toby Young. Keep on truckin', keep on truckin'. Tue, 15:13 : RT @ChuckWendig: Guy shelters students fleeing Sandy Hook shooting. Is now harassed by conspiracy nuts. http://t.co/EyhgRSzT Wed, 09:46 : RT @reelmolesworth: hedmaster GRIMES furious that skool sossidge contane onle 29% horse not garantead 50% eeyore 30% mufin mule 20% SHER ... Wed, 09:52 : RT @Cadigan: This Nando's in Brighton is now the only Nando's I will ever eat at. http://t.co/x557QUWn

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Mon, 13:08 : RT @volewriter: Last night my 12 y/o built the world's smallest snowman. I have to tell you it's just been flattened by a sparrow. Mon, 16:58 : Printing out a contract emptied my ink cartridge. Why is so much of the damn thing in bold? Mon, 20:21 : RT @profanityswan: About time. http://t.co/hMM7JbjD (via @timeoutlondon) Mon, 21:11 : @timmaughan Just saw "South Park" S12E3, which I think might amuse you. It labours under the title "Major Boobage." Mon, 22:25 : "Kipps Don't Lie," "The First Men in the Moonlight and Muzak," "Morlocks Mo Problems." #HGWellsSongs

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Sun, 12:31 : RT @oopnorth: Hi, I'm Michael Gove, you may remember me. I claimed thousands in expenses - but there's more... http://t.co/BJ2CzgMr via ... Sun, 12:39 : RT @Richard_Kadrey: explore-blog: Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on the shapes of stories, now in an infographic. http://t.co/evforZHl Sun, 12:52 : RT @Gollancz: Reality TV idea: celebrities compete to artlessly bellyflop into a vast tank of pigshit. Don't think they wouldn't sign up. Sun, 12:54 : I'm as amused that the previous retweet came from the official Gollancz account as by its content. Sun, 14:08 : "Hang 'Em High" is actually a pretty weak western, sad to report. Still, Pat Hingle gets a decent part, plus Dennis Hopper's shortest role. Sun, 15:08 : RT @RealLONDONFacts: Crawford Passage, Clerkenwell was once named Pickled Egg Walk after Charles II ate a pickled egg at an inn there. Sun, 15:10 : Love the idea of Charles II wandering around London, inadvertently leaving a trail of renamed streets behind him. Sun, 15:33 : In the 2011 film, Conan attacks a slaver camp by rolling boulders into it. So, boulders can tell the difference between slavers and slaves? Sun, 17:18 : RT @RSPCA_official: Unfair allegations in The Mail http://t.co/HlVamJLj against RSPCA. Please support & RT now. Our response - http: ... Sun, 18:53 : RT @Mike_Jung: You run a children's hospital? Have you ever considered working at a real hospital? You know, for adults? #thingsotherpro ... Sun, 20:10 : Gosh, but people are fragile in "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). Huge gouts of blood from the lightest wound. And armour doesn't work *at all.* Sun, 20:57 : Hyperborean building standards are shocking. Breathe hard in a temple and the place just starts falling down. #Conan2011 Sun, 22:14 : RT @marcuschown: "The NHS is safe in my hands" - David Cameron. RT if you don't believe him http://t.co/p6Tg8iBe Sun, 23:25 : RT @UnicornSyrup: WARNING: If someone sends a link to download the new Nickelback single, DON'T CLICK ON IT! It's a link to download the ...

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Sat, 12:22 : RT @mrdanielweir: If you're in Manchester today there's a brilliant looking Delia Derbyshire day at @bandonthewall http://t.co/nlnPFi53 ... Sat, 12:28 : RT @LippyKidBuzzTap: It's Delia Derbyshire day today. Follow @DDDay2013 for more info and enrich your life by reading this article - htt ... Sun, 03:05 : Possibly my favourite poem ever. #MervynPeake http://t.co/ckUBTJwX

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Sat, 06:30 : Want to see a film about a young woman who goes to Hollywood dreaming of being a waitress, yet is frustrated when she ends up a movie star.

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Thu, 14:15 : @GailSimone Went to see THE HOBBIT. "Riddles in the Dark" ruined by hearing #bonerses mentally dubbed in throughout. Thanks a bunch, Simone. Thu, 14:31 : Malevolent dog seduces and blackmails senator #SixWordFilmPlots Fri, 09:20 : TV becomes 20% cooler if you imagine Norman Stanley Fletcher was Jessica Fletcher's cousin. #Porridge #MurderSheWrote

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Wed, 13:09 : RT @trevorbaxendale: When I'm old I'd like to be Peter Cushing's Dr Who. He reads The Eagle, invents a time machine and fights Daleks. T ... Wed, 15:14 : RT @JamesThorne2: This is great!: London Transport at London's service, Black & Barker,1947 - LU casts light & hope over post-WW ... Wed, 19:21 : RT @sturdyAlex: I wrote today on the welfare debate being a very unfortunate turning point. http://t.co/U9pJ16sG Wed, 19:32 : Got one of those fake FedEx emails that ask you to open a trojan, sorry, your "invoice." They forgot to attach it. Genius. #CrapCriminals Wed, 19:38 : RT @TerryMoore: No one knows where Bob Kane got the inspiration for Catwoman, but his wife was sexy as hell. http://t.co/i3cNtxkR Thu, 00:23 : I geeked out when I saw this baby. No space to put the bloody thing, though: http://t.co/o5lJlL7I Thu, 11:08 : RT @BFI: Can you spot Michael Fassbender in this new on-set photo for #BFIFilmFund backed Frank? http://t.co/eh34xu9w Thu, 11:09 : There's still hope for a world in which Michael Fassbender plays the lead in a Frank Sidebottom sort-of biopic.

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Tue, 19:13 : @Danacea Hey, look what I found! And look where I found it... http://t.co/HzXc1DHK Tue, 21:37 : Been issued a �50 spot fine for wading out of the Pacific and razing Tokyo with radioactive fire. I don't remember doing this at all. Tue, 21:58 : Asked Mr Gojira next door if he knew anything about it. Seemed a bit cagey to me. </ul

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Mon, 13:07 : RT @LettersOfNote: "New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day..." Alec Guinness in 75/76, writing to a friend about Star Wars: htt ... Mon, 15:12 : RT @KimeCurran: Hey! @JonathanLHoward and I will be doing an event that is out of this world (geddit?) at the National Space Centre: htt ... Mon, 15:57 : RT @strangechem: Oooh! Katya's World by @JonathanLHoward features in this Top 20 Speculative Novels of 2012 list! http://t.co/NVHtmBk5 T ... Mon, 16:41 : RT @alexillustrator: G�rard Depardieu receives honorary Sontaran nationality http://t.co/H8dXGWZu via @guardian Mon, 17:27 : RT @victoriastrauss: Scam alert: writers solicited for fake speaking gig in the UK. This scam surfaced last July; now it's ba-ack. http: ... Mon, 17:49 : RT @Danacea: NASA considers plan to capture an asteroid and turn it into a space station - http://t.co/J7y6uNI4 (Could not *possibly go ... Mon, 17:50 : Pleased about that asteroid/space station story. It's about time the bloody 21st century turned up. Mon, 18:02 : Folk who have seen "The Hobbit" in 3D, your opinion is sought. I suspect I already know the answer, but does 3D add anything worthwhile? Mon, 19:43 : RT @io9: Why the Paranoia RPG’s Alpha Complex is the greatest dystopia of all time http://t.co/5WTcnMwv Mon, 20:01 : When I finished this quiz, the ghost of Senator Joe McCarthy climbed out of my screen and punched me. http://t.co/SzajC1ID