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Mad Mel again. This time, moving on from general bonkers criticism of atheism and breathtakingly ill-informed pontificating about vaccines ...

There was an article in the Independent today bigging up poet Carol Ann Duffy as the likely next Poet Laureate when Andrew Motion steps...

I caught a discussion between Kathy Sykes and Ben Goldacre on the Today programme on my way in to work this morning: sadly it was all too b...

More posthumous Ballard -related articles - this one is quite interesting in tht it's a list of musical works inspired by Ballard's...

The Levels by Peter Benson. We're in the Somerset Levels , somewhere near the real locations of Isle Abbots and the wonderfully named...

Here's a date you may have missed off your calendar - yesterday (April 21st) was, in addition to being both my sister 's birthday an...

I replaced my mobile phone today; phone fetishists will want to know that I swapped a Motorola U9 for a Nokia 6600 Slide . Doing that, and ...

A couple of sporty-themed ones today. Firstly triple golf major winner Ernie Els and big-eared comedy bloke Martin Clunes . Blond hair, too...

Before anyone points it out, I should correct my airy assertion that Crash wasn't in the list of famous last lines from novels , becaus...

J.G. Ballard, one of my favourite authors, died today. After a "long illness", according to the obituaries , which, as I pointed ...

Couple of photo gallery links for you. Firstly our crack at the Five Peaks Challenge round Dursley and Uley. Not quite as gruelling as the ...

One quick addendum to the book review below: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules Of Writing . Less is more, basically. Here's a slightly diffe...

Riding The Rap by Elmore Leonard. Reading an Elmore Leonard novel is very much un like a box of chocolates , i.e. you pretty much know wha...

A couple of terms you might find useful when viewing some of this guy 's YouTube video library: Poe's Law , slightly paraphrased, sa...

Couple of amusing things to note in this BBC article about Israel and the ultra-orthodox Jewish media doing a bit of religiously-motivated ...

Photos to come later from our weekend walk around the Dursley Five Peaks . Some of the route overlapped with the slightly longer walk we di...

Independence Day by Richard Ford. This is a sequel of sorts to Ford's earlier novel The Sportswriter which I read a few years ago. I s...

Now that I'm entering my twilight years, I've taken to listening to Radio 4 during my drive to work in the mornings. This usually sp...

Russell Blackford's excellent blog inadvertently links two of my TLBIR posts together by comparing Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen with ...

It's now over a year since the Night Of The Long Shears and ( a bit of weeding aside) we haven't really done much with the garden ...