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So you're in the car, at a rock festival, maybe at the theatre or in a job interview, or picking up an MBE from the Queen - anywhere whe...

Pointless observation of the day which will enhance your life in no way whatsoever: musings on the heat retention properties of various kind...

While I'm here I must just plug one more Tim Kreider cartoon - this one . The man even shares my obsession with giant squids! He really ...

Floodland by The Sisters Of Mercy. The whole Goth thing is a bit of a problem - that whole self-consciousness/wilful ugliness combo, the sch...

Just to register Electric Halibut's support for the BBC's blogging campaign for the release of their Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnst...

....is a slightly grandiose title for a blog post, but there it is. I'm referring to the results of the first round of the French presid...

I'm mildly suspicious of grown men (and women, though, let's be honest, it is almost exclusively men) who read comic books, however ...

...yeah, I know spring was in the air only a fortnight or so ago (just before the US Masters in fact), but things move quickly in this crazy...

A glut of book-related posts recently, for which I apologise. Anyone who's not as quite lidderally bonkers about lidderature as I am mi...

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee. Well now, here's an irony. Having if not damned with faint praise then certainly expressed distinctly lukewar...

Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon. Ever seen The Colour Of Money ? You know, Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, a sort of sequel to the (much) earlier ...

Back in Cardiff at the weekend and revisited a couple of the places I visited back in December . This time it was a bit more of a full day o...

This is a slight rehash of a topic covered in the comments to the Michael Dibdin article, but I think it warrants a mention in a "prop...

Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. Interesting bloke, Mario Vargas Llosa - Peruvian novelist, one-time bosom buddy of ...

Sad to hear of the death of one of my favourite authors, novelist Michael Dibdin - he died on March 30th, but I only found out this weeken...

Following on from my fox-related post of a few days ago, I got back to Bristol on Easter Monday to find this handsome chap sunning himself i...

Well, not many people (me included) would have predicted Zach Johnson as the 2007 Masters champion , but he was a thoroughly deserving winn...

Firstly to my fellow blogmeister Andy "Silver Fox" Browne who is now (as of last week) father to two daughters. Congratulations m...

.....and I'm not referring to the mild and sunny weather we've been having recently (well, round these parts anyway), still less to ...

Chronicle by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Another forgotten band - after The Rolling Stones and The Beatles these guys were probably the bi...