Well, the nights are drawing in, which means I get more time off and hopefully a social life again. Last night I went to the Ilkley Literature Festival to see Iain Banks read from his latest novel, Dead Air, and answer questions from the audience. I've never been to a live literature event before, it was kind of nice to be sat down and have someone reading stories to you, very relaxing. Iain was very funny, swigging bitter and swearing like a docker throughout the interview. He spoke at length about the two novels adapted for the screen, The Wasp Factory and Complicity I think, he said that although Use Of Weapons had been bought (and for serious money) he thought it unlikely to make it to film anytime soon. The book that Iain would most like to be filmed is Consider Phlebas, as he explained to the non-sf section of the audience "Its one huge object smashing into another huge object whilst a laser gun battle goes on around, its a science fiction thing". Can you imagine the ship hijack/loop world sequence on film ? Oh yes, that would be deeply impressive. It hasn't rained properly for about six weeks, but there's some water falling on us this morning, simply splendid conditions for the Captain .vs President Team match teeing off this afternoon, oh well, at least I'll have hot mushroom soup and roast chicken for the boys when they come back in. Lastly, daft link of the day, do you have enemies ? Do you have people you would rather like to see writhing in pain ? Well here you go then, if there isn't a handy voodoo high priest in your neighbourhood you can simply send an online voodoo curse to your nearest and dearest. If by this method you accidently kill someone..... 1) Don't blame Yorkshiresoul 2) Click back here tomorrow and I'll show you how to shrink your enemies severed head!