The Doubleclicks have their second entry of the year, with the song Kilogram from their Love Problems album.
Its a cool little ditty about the replacement of the International Prototype of the Kilogram with a mathematically formula the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.62607015×10−34 when expressed in the unit J⋅s, which is equal to kg⋅m2⋅s−1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ΔνCs .
The ninth part of the Warhammer 40,000 Imperium Battle Report Series.
In this episode, we see a duel between the Blood Ravens Commanders and the Royal Court of the Necrons.
Who will prevail in this battle between the sinister Necrons and the noble warriors of the Imperium of Mankind.
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I have been provided with an advance copy of the new Xavier’s Institute book Triptych by Jaleigh Johnson, published by Aconyte Books, so here is the honest review I promised in exchange for the book.
So here is an important disclaimer which is always important to put out there first. I have a casual work contact with Asmodee to demonstrate board games for them in stores and at conventions. Asmodee being the parent company of Aconyte the publisher.
I am going to try my best to not let these things cloud my judgement in this review, but I accept that subconsciously it might.
Look at this point I would bore you with a bit of background to the game/universe, but lets not, you all know the Marvel Universe, if you don’t have you been living under a rock!
The Xavier’s Institute novel series is focued on the heroes that attend this school and their adventures and the two books in the series thus far (disclaimer I never actually read the first one yet) have focuses on what would very much be considered b-list heroes, which is good because it allows the authors to do a lot more with the characters than they would be able to do with more established heroes.
This is an interesting story which focuses on Fantomex, a super soldier who at one point was three distinct brains in one body, but when those brains are separated due to catastrophic injuries, they are each given their own bodies and go their separate ways.
The main character of this book, the core Fantomex, is left the most injured and is taken by his external nervous system, the bio-mechanical E.V.A., to the Xavier Institute in Canada, where he is healed and brought back into the world, all too aware that he is missing two thirds of what he was.
A lot of the book is Fantomex coming to terms with what he feels is a diminished body and skill set, as some of his abilities are with the other members of the Triptych.
Feeling weaker, he tries to push those trying to help him away, despite the best efforts of Emma Frost and Cyclops to make him find a place in the world.
What follows is his attempts to find out what his other selves are up to, and what we get is a cat and mouse chase involving fine art and nanotech, and at the heart of it, is a young mutant, who like Fantomex, is still trying to find her place in the world.
To start off this book has taken me most of a month to read due to my having a lot of issues with sleep, so its been a while since my last review.
But this book is a fairly solid story, lets face it, we have all been in a place where we have needed to rediscover who we are, and I know I have had that again quite recently.
So its great to see how the author has really delved into the self-doubt and questioning that plagues us all in those times, but she shows that for Fantomex, and for most of us, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and you can get there, so in that respect, the book is quite hopeful in its theme.
The four characters who are focused on in this book, deal with their identity crisis in very different ways, and the individual journeys to figuring things out are very different.
I am not sure how to summarise it, I just like that the book was all about figuring out ourselves, and that the journey is just as important as the destination, where shortcuts simply don’t work.
The LGBT aspect of the book is also great, with Avery being very much out and proud, but in, an ordinary way that probably feels more natural than you see in many other places.
To be honest that is something Aconyte have been good at, making queerness normal, not a plot point, just part of a character that feels right and not forced. It takes great skill to do that, and Aconyte have picked authors who just manage this flawlessly.
So how would I summerise this book, well frankly, if you have ever found yourself in a situation in which you feel like you have to question, anything about yourself, this is a book you will really relate to.
Four stars out of Five.
The eBook is out now and the paperback hits the shelves on the 3rd February.
Despite the title, this is a pretty sweet love song by Garfunkel & Oates, who are Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, both of whom you will likely have seen on a TV show or two!
This is delayed due to still being ill, curses I wish it would disappear and let me get on with life!
Molly writes the most wonderful songs, and started out by covering songs by the likes of Lady Gaga and Britney Spears in her ukulele.
But she has moved on to her own original songs and this one is rather lovely and really do encourage you all to give it a listen.
What do you get when you mix vaudeville cabaret, the blues and a bit of voodoo, well you get Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls.
I really love this song, its the type of music that I could picture myself shaking to in a dark smoky back alley club.
Its kind of syrupy and wonderful to listen to and you can so easily tap your foot to the beat!
This weekend we took a trip to Cornwall, to see my baby brother Daniel get married.
He and Chelsea make a wonderful couple, they share two amazing little girls and seeing them make that lifelong commitment was very special.
Daniel has grown into a wonderfully well rounded young man, and is a fantastic father, I could not be more proud of who he has become.
Chelsea is an absolutely darling woman and such a good match for Daniel, I honestly cannot say enough good things about this wonderful couple.
We stayed at their house, where we took up the job of cat sitting Boo and Sully as well as Ki Ki and Nacho, Chelsea’s mums dogs.
So that was fun and cost saving! But it did mean we could take an extra day to stay in Cornwall, see some sights and spend a bit of time with the girls.
It’s a long distance between us, on the way down we stayed over in Cheltenham, and on the way back we stayed in Nottingham so I could make a brief visit to Warhammer World.
We had breakfast there and then made the journey back to Durham.
I only had a couple of days before I went off to Cornwall.
But I did manage to get painted up a trio of Heavy Weapons Teams for my Death Korps of Krieg, all with Heavy Bolters.
I then finished off a unit of Necron Warriors, Scarabs and Hasmoteph the Resplendent for my Sautekh Dynasty.
And finally I managed to get a Knight Warden for House Taranis finished up, that really just needed it’s transfers as I had been working on it for a while.
So what will I be starting on when I return home?
Still working on Triptych by Jaleigh Johnson, but I am almost finished with it now.
Not much, mostly just the odd game of Halo: The Master Chief Collection Multiplayer to get the points for the Microsoft Rewards scheme.
In Warhammer World today, me and Lindsay played a game of Combat Arena, Lindsay beat me very easily!
The latest Warhammer Imperium battle reports is out, this time for issue 8.
And I also got the next episode of Edge of Empire uploaded.
Nowt right now, but I have been told that Orlog is on its way.
And the Avatar Legends campaign is going to have delayed shipping due to a cardboard and paper shortage.
Not a sausage!
I grabbed a can of Leadbelcher spray and a Warhammer World Exclusive Armoured Troll for Blood Bowl on my visit to Warhammer World on Monday.
I also grabbed Star Trek: Elite Force 2 from GOG, and a couple of Iron Harvest DLC, Rusviet Revolution and Operation Eagle on Steam.
This punk parody of Somewhere Under The Rainbow is just great, a little bit retro, a little bit comedy and all horror punk!
And sometimes horror punk is what you need isn’t it, damn I wish I had been alive for the height of proper punk, but these guys are a real idea of that that was like.
Its still too soon, its always going to be too soon for this!
Another Firefly inspired song, well Serenity, the movie, but this still hurts, it hurts so much!
When I first heard this I groaned, there are so many puns, its a great song, but you will groan!
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