Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: odd stuff

  • What he said, yeah

    After a bit of a hiatus Good Dog is blogging at length again, with an entertaining and entirely personal commentary on the movie year that was 2010. I swear to you that I’d already seized upon this sentiment to excerpt before I followed the link at the end of the piece: Everyone probably has some…

  • Misheard in the Movies

    Line heard in Don’t Wait, Django, Shoot! a badly-dubbed spaghetti western on the low-rent movies4men channel last night: a character looks out of a window to see a man emerging from the building across the street. The line was meant to be, “Here’s a mouse coming out of its hole.” What we heard, thickly-accented, was,…

  • On Method

    For anyone fascinated by process, and I know I’m not alone, here’s an example from Derren Brown’s blog in which he records, with staged photographs, the evolution of a painted portrait. It has a relevance to writing that I’ll explain in a moment. For those from outside these shores who may not be familiar with…

  • Theatre Ghosts

    How cool is this: the late Ian Richardson steps in to haunt the refurbished RSC theatre.

  • Super Duper 8

    I spent last Friday morning in the BBC’s number 4 grading suite at the Television Centre in London. For a while I’d been looking for some way of digitising the Super 8 that I shot in the late ’70s and ’80s, but there was always a problem. For all its reputation as a ‘bootlace gauge’,…

  • Rewind

    When I gave up the day job back in August 1980, we took half of the advance money from Chimera and set off for the US with the intention of stretching it out as far as we could and staying until it was gone. We travelled coast to coast and spent the main part of…

  • Remaindered

    Last night I got to see Lee Goldberg’s stinging and accomplished short film Remaindered, and I’m going to recommend it to you without reservation. Yes, I know Lee, and no, friendship has nothing to do with it. The tale’s as well-turned as you’d expect from a pro, and it takes imaginative flight from a reality…

  • Twitter

    Brooligan is now on Twitter. You can find me here. I’ll drop in the odd nugget about the new show that I’m developing for Fox, insofar as I can do it without tempting the gods. You know how they love to screw with our plans.

  • Curses! Tagged Again

    This time it’s to make an A to Z list of books you’ve read, first one into your mind, no cheating. Here’s where I get to give thanks for XENO by D F Jones (Science Fiction Book Club, 1979) and – after much head-scratching and the iron self-control required not to turn and scan the…

  • ‘Cause People Say We Monkee Around

    In the Comments section, Piers Beckley wrote of his old electronic typewriter: “I loved it, because it meant I didn’t have to tippex or retype when I miskeyed… Finally got rid of it a couple of years ago after I realised I hadn’t plugged it in for more than a decade and was never going…