Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Craig Oxbrow's LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
1:09 pm	ENNIES Hot War is up for Writing and Setting, 3.16 is up for cover art, Munchausen for writing, Candlewick and S7S for setting, lots for Hunter and Dark Heresy as well. Strong field. G'wan yersel's! (Comment on this)
1:02 pm	Probably my most off-model remake/remodel yet. Atomic Man A nuclear scientist who uses his radiation-based powers to fight Communism. ( All I really did was shift genre. And lose the inexplicable anti-costume. ) Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
4:01 pm	Torchwood: Kids In The Mud On the whole, I kinda liked it. (A first for Torchwood where previous series have been best used as a metric for a drinking game.) ( We Are Spoiling. ) Looking at it via The Writer's Tale, where RTD acknowledges the problems of his dropping out of writing the Torchwood S2 opener and that opportunity to rejig the series to live up to its potential, seeing the show he had in mind is rather interesting. If it had been a standalone series (some of his Torchwood ideas started off as a non-Whoniverse series idea before he got the Who job) it might have been stronger yet. And he probably would have written more episodes of previous series himself in a parallel universe where he wasn't knackering himself running Who. Current Mood: okay (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
4:44 pm	David Tennant's next role announced. And, um... He's the villain in St. Trinian's 2. Current Mood: confused (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
8:14 pm	In other news... TORCHWOOOOOOD! Although this time out RTD actually wrote two of the episodes, which is twice as many as both the previous series put together. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
8:07 pm	Trek 'shopping ( Preliminaries from the costume department ) By comparison, Deleted doesn't lend itself to this kind of work. But it does have a teaser poster. And I'm also doing pen and ink stuff, mostly prompted by the Remake/Remodel threads at Whitechapel. For example, Harry Houdini fighting a fake robot and the Madagascar Strangler. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Muse, Starlight (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
11:27 pm	I was on the internet within minutes... Blood: The Last Vampire was... well, it was a bit crap, really. ( Contains spoilers, in the event of caring ) I will say that the ticket lines at Cineworld are a delight compared to the ones at the Vue, although the parking was kinda horrific. Trailers: Inglorious Basterds, a French gangster thing with Vincent Cassel, and the new Pelham 123. And I wasn't too keen on the new Orange Film Council ad either... Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
2:33 pm	One small step Forty years ago, a human being set foot on the Moon. It's been more than thirty-six years since the last time. It was all Kennedy and LBJ's idea, but the only world leader to actually send people to the moon was Nixon. Can we maybe do something about that, someday? Current Mood: thoughtful (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
7:24 pm	Three page Buffy comic is three page long. And lack of the sense, but art am be pretty. Current Mood: befuddled (3 Comments |Comment on this)
4:25 am	It is done. It's 4.17 a.m. and I just emailed out the first draft of The Watch House 7.22. Now... anybody who can draw want to do Season Eight as a webcomic? :D Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Ash, Evil Eye (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
1:48 am	Misfits stinks. I mean, literally, in an olfactory sense. Smells like someone pissed himself to death on the main dancefloor. Not appealing. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
3:49 pm	I am old, so I am entitled to ramble nostalgically. I wish Glastonbury had been on the BBC when I was a kid, because the only special thing on TV for my birthday back then was the bloody tennis. Obviously this was before I grasped the concept that the Christmas TV was for everyone in the country, and also before we got a video recorder, but I have always resented Wimbledon for meaning I had less chance of seeing something fun on my birthday. Somewhat relevantly, the main present-y thing so far is preparation for the digital TV switchover. BBC Four, here I come! Current Mood: ancient (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
7:59 pm	It's a KATANA! Samurai Versus Airgun Shadowrun is coming true. Current Mood: surprised Current Music: Curve, Hell Above Water (1 Comment |Comment on this)
1:35 pm	So my six-week checkup after the whole face-freezing complication of the ear infection was yesterday. Mostly a hearing test - which I passed, all in the top five range although some of the quiet high tones were dipping towards "good". And an ear pressure test, which confirmed that there is some in both cases. Had I gotten a copy of the comparative graph I'd have shown it, but basically in terms of ratings my left ear was kinda like this and my right was more like this but still apparently over the "flatline" rating where they'd need to drill a hole in it again to get ride of the gunk still floating around in there. Which was nice. Current Mood: still somewhat concerned (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
8:04 pm	Happy Birthday Mr. Whedon (When is Dollhouse coming out on DVD, anybody know?) Current Mood: good (5 Comments |Comment on this)
7:44 pm	Star Trek pitch It's the 26th Century, because the 25th Century is reserved for Buck Rogers. 150 years of clear space to remove all worries about continuity. Some things have changed (there's a Romulan security officer reflecting a shaky detente, while the Klingons are being isolationist and the Borg have vanished) and lots of things are pretty much exactly the same despite the massive progress that should be made, because this is Saturday night TV gaming, not Serious Science Fiction Simulation. The ship is the Enterprise (NCC 1701-K), tricorders are really small and do about as much as an iPhone, uniform jackets have light grey instead of black and the warp engines are yellow instead of blue. Enough room to chuck out the weight of canon (it could equally be the future of the JJverse) and go for the basics. Other than that, it's punching aliens and arguing over what to do and strange new worlds and running phaser fights. Current Mood: geeky Current Music: Michael Giacchino, Enterprising Young Men (12 Comments |Comment on this)
6:47 pm	Doctor Who RPG - October With David Tennant on the cover despite the whole 'about to regenerate' thing. Presumably Matt Smith will get on the cover of an early supplement... Current Mood: hopeful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
6:18 pm	Clockworks Blatant plug for Shawn's new steampunk fantasy comedy-action comic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
8:12 pm	Damn it, Jim! So I'm thinking ahead to next year at GEAS, and I had a nice straightforward idea - Deleted, a Bourne-style espionage game of agents and civilians, betrayals and shifting loyalties, isolation and madness, on the run across Europe. Sounds cool. But now thanks to JJ Abrams I keep having Star Trek ideas. (Or, more accurately, mad sandbox SF ideas that wouldn't fit into the deliberately constrained setting of The Stars On Fire where there's one alien race and no time travel or speech-making villains or any of that. I set it up that way after The Watch House, which was the biggest mad modern-fantasy-supers-horror-comedy-action sandbox ever. None of them require Vulcans or the Prime Directive or anything, it's just that the Star Trek sandbox has been rebuilt to be less "serious business" and more punching and arguing and running gunfights while flying around in your spaceship.) Hrm. See what people want to play, I suppose... Current Mood: nerdy Current Music: The Beastie Boys, Intergalactic (5 Comments |Comment on this)
2:51 pm	First pics from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland Starring guess who as the Mad Hatter and Red Queen. Go on, guess. Current Mood: not exactly surprised (5 Comments |Comment on this)