Author Archive for Murray @ Midnight

An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 4

If you haven’t already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 3 first. Editor’s note: This is an ongoing story, and sometimes I will probably change my mind about something that has already been posted. In Part 3, I introduced Trevor Deathpriest and Lorenzo Deathpriest. By the time I [...]

The Murray Files

I’d like to watch a television show called The Murray Files, where Murray investigates the paranormal and alien abductions and why people watch Jersey Shore and Celebrity Apprentice and inexplicable things like that. He will be assisted by an attractive intellectual female type person and there will be sexual chemistry despite what the restraining orders [...]

An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 3

If you haven’t read it already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 2 The band of Adventurers were nonplussed. “I’m kind of used to riddles being inscribed above the magic doors of castles and caves and whatnot,” said Borgus to the others. “Usually, you solve the riddle and [...]

Someone has to do it

Every time I come to Tassie I’m reminded of the fact that Tasmanians have stolen the most beautiful State from the rest of Australia and it’s time we demanded it back. I’m sitting on the back deck of a house in West Hobart, looking out across the city to the Derwent River. This view is [...]

An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 2

If you haven’t read it already, you might like to start at An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 1 48 games of rock, paper, scissors, sorcery, political assassination later (it’s hard to beat political assassination) and Gort stepped out onto the causeway. Had the band of adventurers chosen to use commonsense instead of [...]

An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 1

Nurl looked up from his worn copy of Snard’s Guide To Evil Architecture with a thoughtful expression on his pointlessly handsome face. “Anything?” asked Borgus Rennan, 13th Level Mage, who had dismounted from his mighty steed and had spent the last 20 minutes tinkering with its throttle. “Nothing much,” said Nurl. “It’s apparently a Level [...]

I’m going through a Michael Caine movie phase. Thus far I’ve watched: Get Carter, The Ipcress File and The Italian Job. Next in the lineup is Zulu – which, unlike the previous 3, I’ve never seen before. I’m told it’s a cinema classic, so I have high hopes. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone (Murray @ Midnight | Comments)

Just a pointer that I’ve created a new ‘Conversation’ topic over on the forum: The Conversation: Banning The Bomb?. Please feel free to join in! (Murray @ Midnight | Comments)