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You thought the Bible was all about loving thy neighbour and turning the other cheek, didn't you? Well, even leaving aside the fact that...

It'll be December on Saturday, so I think even the most bah-humbug of us may have to concede that Christmas is on the way. So, just to g...

Another sporting one: ex-Welsh football international, ex-manager of Fulham and very possibly soon to be ex-manager of Real Sociedad Chris C...

Christmas is coming up, and you'll be wanting some present ideas. If you're not keen on the standard motivational calendars, try mak...

My linking in my previous post to my earlier Sufjan Stevens album review reminds me that I alluded in it to certain songs reminding me of t...

Carlton Palmer on the BBC's Final Score on Saturday afternoon, talking about Everton's drubbing of Sunderland , and the trying afte...

Era Vulgaris by Queens Of The Stone Age. I reckon Josh Homme is a pretty smart bloke. In music as in other things, dumb isn't much fun...

If this article is to be believed then we may finally be in with a chance of seeing something most people though we would never see: a new ...

Here's an amusing diversion from Theodore Gray's Periodic Table site - make words out of chemical symbols. Proper names are tricky ...

Where Electric Halibut leads, others follow. So when I posted my most recent album reviews , I knew it wouldn't be long before the big w...

Fired with enthusiasm I've added a couple more: Cecil Adams' excellent The Straight Dope , and Barbara and David Mikkelson's exh...

A couple of additions to the links sidebar (on the right) which may be of interest: The Bristol Rugby website . I was sure I had this up the...

It's a triple whammy tonight. World-Cup-winning rugby coach (and far more importantly erstwhile coach of Bristol ) and recent random blo...

Feel free to trawl through all the photographs of our weekend walk round Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge if you like, gawd bless yer, but if ...

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams. Yes, it's an American country album. Run screaming from the room if you wish at this p...

Johann Hari in today's Independent offers a bracing hosing-down with cold water to the retrospective love-in following Norman Mailer...

I was going to tag these ramblings on to bottom of the previous post, but it was getting a bit long, so a separate one is probably called fo...

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates. It's the morning after Ariah Littrell's wedding night, and she's in the bridal suite of a hotel...

Apparently my blog is too sparklingly erudite and literate to be understood by anyone less educated than a college post-graduate. Click on t...

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Would it surprise you to learn that Sharon Osbourne 's finest moment is not her Botox-ed judgmental...