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Time for the ceremonial tasting of the Christmas whisky gifts. Santa emptied his bulging sack down my eager chimney to the tune of two bottl...

Here's a bit more Beefheart for you: a BBC documentary from 1997, narrated, almost inevitably, by John Peel. Part one is here , and it...

So it's RIP to the legendary Captain Beefheart , who died a couple of days ago. If you wanted to out-weird your friends when I was at u...

Just a brief round-up of a few things: I've applied an update to both the drink and mountain top photo galleries - and not before time...

When conditions are harsh and wintry, as they are in Newport at the moment (the snow picture above was taken about half an hour ago) it'...

I've just finished watching Sky Sports' highlights programme after the highly gratifying events of the first day of the third Ashes...

The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion. It's 1984, and the USA is engaged in various murky covert operations in Central America. The...

It is my contention that stand-up comic and We Are Klang member Greg Davies is simply a freakishly giant version of Rik Mayall.

While buying some groceries in our shiny new Sainsbury's this evening I came across this product on the shelves with the washing powde...

Nice of the BBC to keep me entertained by swearing like inebriated dockers as I sat in a traffic jam for an hour or so on the way to work t...

Say what you like about Christopher Hitchens , but he's certainly not wallowing in self-pity after the diagnosis of oesophageal cancer ...

Here's some absolutely textbook fatwa envy (as previously observed here ) that I spotted in a couple of different places this week. Fir...

The Office Of Innocence by Thomas Keneally. Father Frank Darragh is a rookie Catholic priest in suburban Sydney. It's 1942, so in addit...

Strange goings-on in today's Daily Mail , you'll be not at all surprised to hear. This article tells us that after years of specula...

We did another in our series of autumn walks last weekend, this time - having largely exhausted the possibilities of walks starting and ...

Is it just me or is the name they've (they being Scottish vegetable wranglers Albert Bartlett ) chosen for the new super-healthy purple...

Here's a nice little advert for the excellent Whisky Shop , a couple of whose branches I have visited, in Fort William and Oban - regr...

My records reveal that I haven't done one of these since ruddy February , so it's about time we did another. Here's stand-up com...

Following yesterday’s glimpse into XenuCon ’07 , I bring you an exclusive preview of David Miscavige’s speech from next year’s event, follow...

I'm still fascinated by Scientology , I'm afraid, so here's a couple of video clips. Watch and enjoy them soon, before the lawye...