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A longer post to come when I've got a spare moment, but in the meantime here's a gallery of photos from our recent trip to New York ...

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. A couple of reasons for reading this: firstly I bought it back in 1994 just before my first ever t...

We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. This is the second JCO (as I like to call her) book to appear in this list ( The Falls being ...

Remember Rom Houben the magic coma guy ? In an entirely unsurprising turn of events it turns out he's not actually magic after all . N...

In a slightly bleary Sunday morning haze after being in Cardiff for Wales' thrilling (though extremely fortunate) last-gasp victory ove...

There was a brief bit on the Radio 4 6pm news bulletin this evening about the compatibility of science and religion - they'd wheeled out...

I can't remember exactly where, but in one of my lonely journeys across the vast and trackless wastes of the internet a few days ago I c...

In trying to find a Neil Young picture for the previous post I came across this simple yet strangely brilliant website: Sleeveface . Basica...

It would have been around the time I was at university that I first got into the habit of patching my jeans once they ripped or wore throug...

Current Wales scrum-half (though only in the absence through injury of Dwayne Peel and Mike Phillips ) Gareth "Coops" Cooper , a...

I meant to add a footnote to the previous post while mentioning whiskies beginning with "T" - the Tomintoul distillery in Speysid...

Today's whisky bargain: Tormore 12-year-old, available in Morrison's for around £16. Which is phenomenally cheap, really. There are...

Also: buy new bed.

I noticed this while watching Dave Gorman 's show Genius last night, but I've heard it in a few other places as well, mainly in spo...

Nice to see the Australians conforming to national stereotype by taking a commendably robust attitude towards this bit of cheeky job advert ...

Today is the 51st anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly , Richie Valens and The Big Bopper. Obviously very tragic, except ...

It might interest you to know that not only is the Pope planning to visit the UK in September, but that despite being transported over in h...

Some really tremendous lunacy from the upper echelons of the Catholic Church this week, starting with the top man, head honcho, numero uno, ...

A few things to note about the camp 1970s sci-fi classic Logan's Run , which I bought for about 3 quid off Amazon the other day: This...

Frankly there was already something about David Cameron 's weirdly smooth smug potato-ey face that made me want to punch it even before ...