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I haven't had such an enjoyably cathartic session of bellowing OH FUCK OFF at the radio for quite some time as I did this morning on the...

If you watch Dave enough then you will eventually end up watching every episode of QI ever recorded, several times, in a random order (same...

Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban. Kleinzeit is an advertising copywriter; or at least he is for the first couple of pages until he gets sacked for...

By another not-at-all-spooky-if-you-actually-think-about-it coincidence , here's CRACKED.COM 's list of the 7 Most Horrifying Museum...

Following my shocking revelations about permanent mental scarring and occasional explosive bed-wetting following a chance childhood viewing...

So I was trawling through Wikipedia, as you do, trying to find a suitable link to attach to my tangential mention of the Irish flag for tha...

Amongst Women by John McGahern. Moran is an ex-IRA soldier (who served in the Irish Civil War , we're invited to assume) now settled in...

Always nice to see a bit of reciprocal linkage , particularly on sites I actually like; it's sort of like a cyberspatial reach-around . ...

I blame my Facebook friends again : when Steve mentioned that he'd come across (so to speak) a programme called Wild Swimming With Alice...

Couple of things I spotted while being entertained by the good people at the BBC over the last few days: Firstly, on one of my mid-morning t...

It seems a little churlish to criticise Louis Oosthuizen for making most of the last round of the Open Championship a bit of a triumphal pr...

Here's a couple of things you might find spookily coincidental, if you were inclined to that sort of feeble-minded nonsense: Andy and I ...

Here's a couple of interesting links. Firstly this New York Times article which starts off as a discussion of the Dunning-Kruger effec...

From the Daily Mail again. Almost perfect; needs more sharks though.

Paradise by Toni Morrison. They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are sev...

It's Friday, I'm a bit late getting to work, so it must be Desert Island Discs . This morning's guest was consultant forensic ps...

Here's a good one from the inimitable Daily Mail : If you can get to the end of that and have any clear idea who "him" an...

You'll recall my life-enhancing musings on the heat-retention capacities of food back in the early days of this blog; here's anothe...

One of the main selling points of our new house, to me at least, was the shed out in the back garden. And not any normal jerry-built flat-pa...

One of the purposes of all the pub-related stuff a few posts ago was to drop in a reference to our finally having checked out one of our lo...