Every now and then you just have to treat yourself to a big box of tea cakes.
Power is out all evening…
Out in town with @izzytime1 playing violin in a session at the @the_inter_bar
Neat Baseball Furies sticker I saw in the toilet cubicle at the cinema last night.
Waiting for the pub to open selfie.
Dinobots transformed…
Finally have a full set of Dinobots. Letting them roam out in the garden to celebrate 40 years of the cartoon series this week.
A bird perched on one of the spooky trees at the back of my house.
Playing Mansions of Madness today. #Boardgames
Have been busy working on improving the @nearfm90.3 webcam output. Have a new camera in place that can allow different angles of the studio to be captured and today I added a little bar that shows what programme is currently on air along with an audio visualiser.
The new studio 3 with my wall art installed.
Working on a very large audio drama at the moment.
Got ‘A Pig Quest’ running on original hardware with a nice crisp capture over Framemeister. #commodore
New Commodore 64 game just arrived. #AreYouKeepingUpWithTheCommodore
Have an excessive 4 screen set up on my new PC.
Dinner at IKEA selfie.
Pretty great Bronson movie just delivered.
Got a Deaths Head figure. I was worried when this was announced as a San Diego Comic Con exclusive but I managed to secure a copy. Childhood favourite comic book character.
These are pretty good…
Important to support physical media releases of classic cinema.
Marvel comic book Shockwave and decapitated Optimus Prime.
My garden as the lights come on…
Post lawn mowing beer…
Trying out some new equipment.
Just arrived. Original sketch of Megatron by one of my favourite Transformers artists.
New PC built and I only sort of made a balls of it…
Playing Escape From New York. #boardgames
Post lawn mowing beer…
Just took delivery of the Escape from New York board game I backed. I now own two boardgames where you can play as Harry Dean Stanton. #Boardgames
A fun fair set up shop in Coolock and it’s about as bleak as you would imagine.
#NowSpinning ‘Clue Motion Picture Soundtrack’
In memory of Martin Mull.
Bought a hoodie for the first time in my life. Kind of feels like stolen valour though…
Realised it was sunny out so taking a coffee break from editing in the garden…
Pint of @thewhitehag with some board games at @theblacksheepdub
Made a little charcuterie board for dinner this evening…
Having a coke float in the back garden…
Always fun trying to get old tech to work with new tech. Using an old Wii to play GameCube games and stream to my PC. Pretty happy with the picture quality.
Not sure where or when I got this Japanese synth pop album… but it’s pretty cool. #Vinyl
“Allamaraine, count to four,
Allamaraine, then three more,
Allamaraine, if you can see,
Allamaraine, you’ll come with me…”
Just won a game of Chula in Star Trek Ascendancy. #boardgames
“The Conversation” 50 years old this year. #NowSpinning #Vinyl
#ivoted
The pancake place next to the polling station is always a good incentive for me to get out and vote…
Trying to recreate a moment from the cartoon…
It’s a House soundtrack sort of afternoon. #vinyl
Getting reading for Shadow of the Erdtree with the Elden Ring OST. #vinyl #nowspinning
Picked up Nemesis for a very good price. Was worried I’d missed out on owning her. #transformers
“This is the future. This is the year… 1997”
Now playing ‘Turbokid - Chronicles of the Wasteland’ #vinyl
Happy Pride month! Here are Chromedome and Rewind, one of the same sex couples in my Transformers collection.
Now playing ‘From Out Here’ by The Advisory Circle. #vinyl
Now playing NieR: Automata OST #vinyl
Picked up the ‘All You Need is Death’ soundtrack LP
Found a cloth map of Drangleic from Dark Souls 2 while tidying up.
Probably the oldest video game in my collection. Star Battle for the Commodore Vic-20 from 1981.
Found the sign from the original Board Games Ireland meet-ups while cleaning…
First time playing War of Whispers with the enhanced components. Makes a big difference. #Boardgames
Off to the cinema for the Transformers 40th anniversary screening.
New #AudioDrama ‘Togetherness’ by @heeereeesjonny this Friday at 7pm on @nearfm90.3
Cooling off in the garden with a beer and a burrito.
Good lord! What is happening up there?
Got the Cool World vinyl spinning…
Got a little dragon tree for my home office.
Listening to an absolute bop while waiting for the pub to open.
My little #RecordStoreDay haul…
Trying out a new beer again. This time The Serpent from Whitehag.
Cute duck pond at the end of Parnell Street…
In the pub… which is now open…
Another day recording in studio…
In studio recording new audio drama today.
Waiting for the pub to open with my most egg themed t-shirt on…
Godzilla X Kong time!
Eating these and getting an immediate deep, dull ache in my teeth.
Waiting for the pub to open…
My boardgame collection is sort of spread over a bunch of different shelves so I had to take a bunch of photos and paste them together into a collage. But think this is pretty much everything.
Got a neat little water feature for the garden…
Keep forgetting she’s up there and getting startled….
Guess you can call me ‘Madman Web’ as I just put up this massive A0 sized Madame Web poster over my work area.
My collection of season 1 Autobots.
The Nintendo 64 Visual Companion arrived today. I now have the full set of 8 volumes of visual companions. Hoping they do PC Engine next.
ISS Vanguard finally arrived yesterday. There is so much in the box. Last night was spent watching old movies and sorting and indexing everything.
Shai-Hulud Versus Amout, the Soul Devourer in Kemet. #boardgames
Waiting for the pub to open…
Went to a shop called Pepco today and they had pretty nice frames for cheap.
At a place called Pink where all the food is pink.
More VHS boardgames!
It’s a rainy afternoon. Time to dig out the VHS boardgame.
Noticed it was President’s Day so I swung by the Washington Monument here in Dublin. It was built in 1778.
40th Anniversary reissue of the original Soundwave.
Picked up the good Dune movie on 4K.
Having a bad time in the Nemesis boardgame…
Waiting for the pub to open…
Waiting for the pub to open…
Breathing in the air from this forbidden vent is bound to give me mystical powers.
I designed, printed and framed a bunch of those for my friends that I’ve been doing a Sunday night movie club with since lock down. 343 movie posters on there.
Grabbing a burger in Eddie Rockets and there is a couple at the next table singing along to every song that comes on the jukebox. They’re currently wailing along to ‘Summer Nights’ from Grease.
A shipment of new blurays just managed to sneak its way to me before Xmas.
Wasn’t easy but finally got my hands on a vinyl LP soundtrack album of the best game ever made.
Nice moon out tonight.
Completed my collection of the Dark Cities board games which are shaped like little books.
Glass bricks at my bank…
There’s a small furry creature in this box. I know it’s pretty late but it looks hungry. Gonna go see what it’s in the fridge for it….