You don’t always notice your own bad habits. For reasons that aren’t entirely logical, I spent a little time looking through the archives on this site and noticed a tendency to post at either around 7am or 7pm. I’ll try to change that. The other thing I noticed is that I use the word ‘cool’ too much. Looking at how I use it, it seems to be a lazy kind of shorthand for not actually describing something. Therefore, henceforth this blog will eschew the use of the word ‘cool’.

I was just looking at Ellen Datlow’s website and, if my calculations are correct, the next volume of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror will be her fiftieth anthology, which seems like a heck of a milestone.

I love the idea for this book and, given the editors involved, I think it’s almost certain to be a great book, but I do have a question – would a teen be attracted to a book labelled “for teens”?

I talk to friends about declining hard-copy music sales, and they look a bit befuddled – why would you care, so what?, and so on. I was interested, therefore, to see a report on the BBC that Elvis Presley’s latest UK #1 single, and 1000th overall UK #1, had the lowest sales of any #1 since 1969. I haven’t seen anything on this, but I wondered if it sold many download copies?

Wednesday, 2 February 2005. That’s the day that the nice airconditioning man is going to come and turn our house from a place that is sometimes very hot, to a place that is not. Uninterrupted nights’ sleep beckon. Joy is in the world.