Apparently

I was in the middle of a bomb scare today. (http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=42364)

I'm awfully close to:



It was, to be fair, of an area I've taken photos of:

Letterbox:

Reverse view:



It sounds like the second scare today (after this: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=42206), and the third this week.

Edit: And to emphasise, I didn't know about any of these until I went to the pub.

PKD DAY 2

Saturday 14th June 2008, 10.00 am-5.00 pm
John Clare Lecture Theatre, Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, Nottingham

Following last June’s ‘PKD-Day’ marking 25 years since the author’s passing, the English Team at Nottingham Trent University have organised a further day of discussion and celebration of Philip K. Dick’s remarkable body of writing. It is an informal event, designed to bring together enthusiasts and academics in a day of papers and informal discussions.

“Palmer Eldritch” will be talking about his blog, with its regular feature on “which PKD story are we in today?”. Professor John Goodridge will be looking at emotionalism and melodrama in some of Dick’s novels. PKD collector and enthusiast Alberto Paulino will introduce PKD materials he has acquired over the years. Dr Barry Atkins will be talking about “Videogames: Playing in a Dickian Universe”, and Andrew M. Butler will be giving a paper on “Tomorrow's History, Yesterday’s Futures: Philip K. Dick's Versions of the 1950s.” The day will conclude with an open discussion on “PKD: Past, present and Future”.

Please contact Professor John Goodridge (john.goodridge@ntu.ac.uk, phone +044 115 848 3375) or Souvik Mukherjee (souvik.mukherjee@ntu.ac.uk), School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS.

web link:

http://pkdday2atntu.webs.com/


Programme

JCLT 006 (breaks, lunch and spillover JCLT 005)

Morning session chaired by Dr Dan Cordle

10.00 Tea/coffee

10.20 Welcome and Introduction (Souvik Mukherjee, Nottingham Trent University)

10.30 Professor John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Emotionalism and Melodrama in Dick’s novels’

11.00 ‘Palmer Eldritch’, ‘Too much information: Which PKD Story are we in today?’

12.00 Dr Barry Atkins (Newport University), ‘Videogames: Playing in a Dickian Universe’

12.30 LUNCH

Early afternoon session chaired by Mahendra Solanki

1.45 Alberto Paulino, ‘The Perils of Collecting Dick’

2.30 Dr Andrew M. Butler (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University), ‘Tomorrow's History, Yesterday's Futures: Philip K. Dick's Versions of the 1950s’

3.30 TEA/COFFEE

4.00 Open forum: PKD past, present and future, led by the day’s speakers

5.00 End of formal sessions. Those who wish to do so are welcome to reconvene for a drink in the Victoria Tavern, Wilford Lane, Ruddington, at 6.00 pm, going on at about 7.00 pm for a curry at the Everest restaurant in Ruddington (opposite the ‘Blade Runner’ hair salon).



If anyone reading this is a burglar, I will not be going to the above

Film LIV

( Charles de Lauzirika, Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) )

Totals: 54 (Cinema: 19; DVD: 33; TV: 2]