A New Year Approaches

But enough about that. I just thought I'd point out that there's a new snippet on Not All Of What Follows Is True, which, by it's non-fictional nature removes any nagging doubts we may have had that the title meant that everything that followed was false.

The New Sparkling Issue of APAGear is up, featuring Tabula Rasa, by me, which is really not entirely terrible. But then it was written under unusual circumstances.

And finally, SYNCHRONICITY ALERT.

I was reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson yesterday (indeed, I'm still reading it now). In the book, Cayce Pollard -- yep, another Gibson protagonist whose name is pronounced "Case" -- wears a jacket from 'Buzz Rickson's', a fanatical Japanese reproduction and in some aspects caricature of a WW2 US flying jacket. In a moment of on the Tube satori I realised where the name came from.

Buzz Rickson is the name of Steve McQueen's character in THE WAR LOVER, a film about a daredevil bomber pilot that was on BBC2 earlier yesterday afternoon.