Author Archives: Adam Randall

Donkey Kong Country

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Adam Randall

This is the first game in the marvelous Donkey Kong Country series. It has a strange link to the old Donkey Kong arcade games too; the Donkey Kong of those games is now the Cranky Kong of these games and … Continue reading →

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Baby

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Adam Randall

I don’t quite understand what it is, but something about me causes other people to treat me like a child at times. As such, I decided I would make a blog entry listing a few examples of this kind of … Continue reading →

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Apple

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Adam Randall

Sorry, Apple fans! I am only teasing. Finger puppets can be bought here.

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My Birthday

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Adam Randall

I tell people the date of my birthday once (well, unless people ask me for it) and see who will remember it. I don’t have it listed on Facebook or other social sites either. This means I get less meaningless … Continue reading →

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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (translated by Maurice Cranston)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Adam Randall

This book is a non-fiction philosophical work in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau sets out the ways in which he believes a state should be correctly run. Interestingly enough, it was one of several things which sparked off the French Revolution. In … Continue reading →

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Jean Marsh

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Adam Randall

On the left is a picture of actor Jean Marsh alongside William Hartnell as the First Doctor on Doctor Who. On the right, she is beside Richard Thomas as John-Boy Walton on The Waltons. In Doctor Who, she portrays the … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Adam Randall

I hope that’s not too small to read, these days I generally keep the strips at eight panels, but this is a reference to this older strip and so I kind of needed it to be this length. The pirate … Continue reading →

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Super Mario Bros.

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Adam Randall

This is the first main game in the Mario series and the one which properly establishes most of the staples of the series. In fact, it was the first traditional side scrolling platformer game and something of a revolution in … Continue reading →

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Dislocation

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Adam Randall

This is a story which I have briefly mentioned before in another entry but I have never written about in any full detail. As anybody who clicked that link will now know, this story takes place during my time as … Continue reading →

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Writing Task 5

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Adam Randall

I have been given five writing tasks by my good friend David Tubb and I shall be writing one of these each day this week. These will be somewhat different to my usual entries, and so I am just writing … Continue reading →

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