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Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell. This is the second novel in the celebrated Alexandria Quartet , the first of which, Justine , I read back in ...

Greendale by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. File this one under spooky coincidences. I was singing along with the final track on this album, ...

Those new Microsoft " I'm a PC " ads are quite a cute response to the Apple ads of a while back. But....if I were dithering o...

I didn't attribute the Irish Independent article I linked to a couple of posts back to anyone in particular, because the web version d...

Here's a few photos from our trip down to Dorset at the weekend. Hazel was keen to re-enact some of the activities from our annual Swan...

A couple of contrasting views on the atheist bus story - the always amusing Daily Mash takes a humorous view of the situation , while the ...

You'll remember, of course, the TravelJohn in-car piss-bag, and the Advanced Mission Extender Device in-plane piss-bag. Two very simil...

Time for a couple of brief film reviews: We went to see Quantum Of Solace at the cinema last week. After having heard somewhat mixed review...

I went over to the Millennium Stadium on Friday night to watch Wales play Canada. Unless you book months and years in advance, or you'r...

I knew I had a third bullet to add to my previous post : the Adam Curtis documentary contains much mention of WWII Allied soldiers having vi...

Thanks to the Bad Science blog sidebar (in which much good stuff can be found, much of it splendidly frivolous, some of it not) for this li...

I will conclude this brief incontinent flurry of arse-related items by linking to the following news story from a couple of weeks ago: vicar...

Continuing the death theme, drummer Mitch Mitchell died yesterday . This now means that a) all three members of the original Jimi Hendrix e...

This is ostensibly to continue my habit of acknowledging the deaths of major writers - like, previously, Michael Dibdin , Kurt Vonnegut an...

Via Strange Maps and Pharyngula : here's an interesting sequence of maps showing the voting distribution in last week's US preside...

Songs that pull a specific lyrical trick on you: refer constantly to a woman by name, or by use of the phrase "my baby" or somethi...

I don't know what sequence of random external stimuli made my train of thought turn to the subject of Joanna Lumley 's anus, but it ...

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It's 1962 and Edward and Florence Mayhew have just got married and are staying in a hotel near Abbotsbur...

My faith in America is at least partially restored , despite my deep (and, it turns out, thankfully, unfounded) suspicion and paranoia abou...

Here's a selection of random pub encounters from the last few days, for your edification and possible future drinking and dining pleasur...