The Black Dog

As previously mentioned, the Fforest of Annwn is vast. Possibly endless. If endless is at all possible. Certainly it seemed to Pwyll that you could often walk all day and not get anywhere. Upon whichever point of the compass he embarked; symbolised, as they were, by the seven windows of …

The Fforest of Annwn

by Pwyll ap Douglas He was eaten by a dragon, but as it was a mythical creature, it didn’t do him much …

Warranty

“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”(1) The foolishness of these words might seem obvious, but there is a …

Email Tale

By Alan J. Crabtree My mother died recently (it wasn’t aujourd’hui). Initially I felt a bit numbed, and it was only when …

The Lonely Crowd

The death of hegemony with the rise of the media. My PhD supervisor Alan Costall always warned me about what we might …

The Drill finds out the Dowser

An Exploration of Post-Factuality In 1992 I organised an exhibition at Littlehampton Museum on the history of a local company, Duke and …

Travels in Annwn 3: Discussion

Introduction Stalker is by no means the only game which recreates “historic” places (see Kapell and Elliott 2013). The most notable parallels …

Travels in Annwn 2: Fieldwork

Given my deja vu experience at Robert Maxwell’s talk (CHAT 2012), I thought it would be worthwhile to return to Stalker’s Pripyat …

Travels in Annwn (Part 1)

I haven’t posted on this blog for some time, partly because I have been travelling. Specifically, I have been in north east …

The Future is Already Here…

…it’s just been misremembered The internet is filling up with crap. My personal pet hate is misquotations, or the meme-ing of quotations …