It's no secret that while I may have been during the tail end of the 70s, I consider myself an 80s kid, through and through. I mean I may have been born 3 years before the decade started, but I
grew up in the 80s, and something like is bound to have a big effect on a growing boy. Like everyone who was a child during the greatest decade there ever was, there's one thing that influenced me more than any other, beyond
Transformers, or
He-Man, or Duran Duran, or
Robocop, or Frankie Goes To Hollywood, or
any of that stuff.
Yes, I'm talking about
Ghostbusters, a movie that, in hindsight, had a spectacularly big effect on how I write, and how I even
think about plot-lines. And so, it was with a heavy heart that I read the news today (courtesy of
The BBC), saying that Harold Ramis has died, aged 69...
