Autodidactbots

Stephen McGinty's 2007 work of leftfield non-fiction, "Churchill's Cigar", contains a character sketch I have to share:

"Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, who wrote his guide to the game [of lawn tennis] in 1874, was an inveterate inventor who pioneered the less successful sport of bicycle gymkhana (formation cycling to classical music) as well as a popular pipe mixture."


Listening: Radio Rexley! (Follow the link from the "Dog Judo" dojo.)
Reading: "Doctor Who - Judgement Of The Judoon" (2009) by Colin Brake. An unabashedly derivative romp with a Veronica Mars-esque girl detective named Nikki Jupiter and "Matrix Reloaded"-style henchtwins known as The Walinski Brothers. That's Walinski, not Wachowski.