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When we went over to New York for my birthday I recall standing around in the duty free shop at Heathrow salivating over the huge selection...

I got this e-mail a couple of weeks ago: Subject: Mrs Elizabeth Etters From: alan.armitage@bt.com Sent: 12 January 2010 01:31:38 To: ...

It's hard, shiny, about nine inches long, and I've got it in my hand right now . No (good guess though), it's the DVD of The Com...

There are a number of things which are funny about this series of outtakes and bloopers from American fisherman and TV presenter Bill Dance...

The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter. So there's this guy, Doctor Hoffman. And he has these machines. And wh...

Well, actually it's the by-line under it that makes it funny . You literally couldn't make it up. Unless someone has. Thanks to an e...

Sad news about Alex Chilton , who died last week aged 59 - one of the great unrecognised rock'n'roll mavericks. Chilton's deat...

A quick anniversary to acknowledge: March 17th (last Wednesday) was not only St. Patrick 's Day, but also the second anniversary of my p...

Saying you watch Only Connect on BBC4 for the fiendishly entertaining quiz puzzles is a bit like saying you read Playboy for the articles: ...

Another interesting snippet on the Today programme this morning : the last segment featured a brief interview with Gregory Zuckerman, author...

There was a brief piece on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning about the dispute over the surviving manuscripts of Czech novelist F...

Time for a couple of additions to the blog sidebar - firstly let me commend to you the splendid and multifarious cornucopia of cartoon delig...

By my calculations we haven't done an album of the day post since my shockingly unimaginative choice of Rumours back in May 2009, so y...

While we're on the subject of music, I see my submission of misheard Madonna lyrics to the Kiss This Guy website has been published. C...

Second apperance (here's the first ) for You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire by Queens Of The Stone Age...

Just a quick and tangential follow-up to my earlier whisky-based post : we were out on the golf course (and latterly in the pub ) on Saturd...

Easy to say after the event, but you can see it coming with some people. Actually maybe "hear it coming" would be more accurate; j...

One of the problems with trying to democratically consume one's whisky collection without favouring any one particular bottle is that th...

After the flurry of sordid sexual revelations about senior England footballers in recent weeks, it's good to be able to report that ru...

A brief footnote to the previous post : you might remember from this earlier post that I claimed to have met Dick Francis once, and indeed ...