Essay

GO NE: My text adventures

GO NE: My text adventures

A few years back, my parents moved out of the house they'd lived in since my early teens. I visited them as they were clearing out the house's many nooks and crawl-spaces. My mother had extracted a box containing relics of a whey-faced computer nerd who lived in the house until the late 80s. 

REBUILT: what the Six Billion Dollar Man tells us about belief in the future

REBUILT: what the Six Billion Dollar Man tells us about belief in the future

So the Hollywood douchebag machine has green-lit a movie called The Six Billion Dollar Man, with Marc Wahlberg attached. Readers of my vintage will recognise this as the latest in a string of reboots of those trashy old TV shows that time grants the unwarranted adjective classic.