While you were out celebrating New Year’s Eve, I was watching David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ on DVD. Not that I’m such a pathetic hermit; it was just my wife’s fun idea of closing the Old Year. She admitted afterwards she might have been wrong. Missing the Sydney Fireworks and all that.

If the following is an accurate reflection of Keith Thompson’s contribution to the Australian 2007 National Screenwriters’ Conference, it smells of ignorance and incompetence: