I have learnt a lot through my ME/ fibromyalgia (described at length in yesterday’s post https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/28/got-a-secret-in-plain-sight/ ). Some of it not even related to the condition. Dr Berkovitz talked at length about the brain being an organ like any other in the body. Yet if something goes wrong with the brain people view it inContinue reading “And pull the trigger I’ll be Dead”
Tag Archives: 90s
War In Heaven
Some people did not like the Doctor Who New Adventures (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) claiming that they were not in the spirit of the program or that the plotlines were too complicated. I think Virgin books got it right as you cannot sustain a book series on a monster of the month in a novel with aContinue reading “War In Heaven”
I just knew
I like Only Fools and Horses (OFAH). Not the best sitcom ever as the British public voted it, not by any means, I mean better than Fawlty Towers or Blackadder? Hell, it’s not even John Sullivan’s best comedy – in fact it is arguable that it is his second best, but he was a veryContinue reading “I just knew”
I’m number one so why try harder?
These Academy Award commentaries are the least popular things on the blog, but I want to do them anyway. The 1990s were a good decade for the Academy Awards. It starts with a win for Dances with Wolves which is worthy but quite dull. Ghost is far better remembered but Goodfellas is probably the oneContinue reading “I’m number one so why try harder?”
Let your soul and your body and your mind be free
When I got into dance music I really liked the Shamen. Their story is quite sad as they recorded En-Tact and when they went to Tenerife to make a video for Move Any Mountain Colin Angus drowned in the ocean. The song Omega Amigo looks eerily prescient and the song Space Time off Boss DrumContinue reading “Let your soul and your body and your mind be free”
Remember when
I sometimes wonder if I would have been better off being born twenty years earlier or twenty years later. I hope, despite being 54, that I am still staying abreast of modern technology. I hope that I keep doing that and do not succumb to the seeming inevitability of older people of saying it wasContinue reading “Remember when”
Don’t Be Too Long
I wrote some time ago about one international cricket dynasty (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/26/im-so-tired-of-trying/ ), they were succeeded by an Australian dynasty. In fact Australia being the best team in the world is the default position for world cricket, but being young in the 70s and 80s it seems odd for the West Indies not to be theContinue reading “Don’t Be Too Long”
System Activated
One evening in the early 90s I sat down and read the three Miracleman graphic novels in one go – these were the ones published by Eclipse Comics that went out of print for two decades. This was Alan Moore’s other lost comic strip from Warrior, the first one being V For Vendetta (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/06/brain-and-body-melting/ )Continue reading “System Activated”
Time for…..
It was not the first time that we went punting but it was the funniest. Neil, Dave and I had tried punting one afternoon the previous year and Neil had fallen in when the punt pole got stuck and we had found that the mud at the bottom of the Cam smelt disgusting. June 1991Continue reading “Time for…..”
Conversations With Dead People
This is another part of the explanation about why The Sopranos is not as innovative as people think it is, plus a recommendation of the TV work of Joss Whedon, another great of modern television. After the Stephen Bochco series on network TV JM Straczynski created Babylon 5 – a series that ran for fiveContinue reading “Conversations With Dead People”
Five Miles Out 