electrichalibut.co.uk

The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco. Join me if you will for a journey to the wild and lawless world of 1327, where bands of rogue monk...

Couple of good examples of religious nuttery this week - more specifically the unthinking assumption that people are going to defer to your ...

Shouty TV host and lowest-common-denominator chav-baiting shitehawk Jeremy Kyle , and star of various big-budget blockbusters including Bo...

Just a couple of additions to the previous list of stuff : The landmark innocuously marked as "beacon" on Ordnance Survey ma...

Here's a few snippets of potential interest to accompany my photographs of our trip to Pembrokeshire last week - be warned that the ph...

Just a quick post- US Open round-up: The eventual winner, Webb Simpson , in addition to being a dead ringer for Owen Wilson , provides an...

Latest missive from the strange planet on which Tiger Woods' ex- coach and current Sky Sports summariser Butch Harmon lives - a planet...

A quick post to commemorate the death of Ray Bradbury , who died a couple of days ago aged 91. I have to confess Bradbury falls into that c...

I was never a particular fan of the Bee Gees, so all I'll say in the aftermath of Robin Gibb's death this week is that it was Robin...

So there I was bemoaning the handful of outsize CDs I own which necessitate a sub-optimal use of rack space, little realising that my nex...

Here's today 's mystery object . So, granny and eldest dog only - what's this? Actually this one is fairly easy, but I inc...

For someone who regularly bemoans the state of "proper" science programming on radio and TV it should go without saying that I...

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Victor Mancini has a few issues. One, he's a sex addict, and a regular attendee at a twelve-step programm...

Today's random music list is generated from the aftermath of the assembly of my new wall-mounted CD racks. First things first: thes...

While trawling around the web looking for reactions to Levon Helm's death I came across a post on Jerry Coyne 's excellent website ...

Current World Snooker Championship quarter-finalist, devoted family man and (I've just decided) Welshman Of The Day (you see what I d...

End by The Cure (from their 1992 album Wish ) on the BBC's documentary Rowing The Arctic last night. If you happen to click on that iPl...

Today's crackpot theory is one I came up with after a couple of weeks off work on paternity leave. Now obviously parenthood is the best...

Here's a brief and slightly belated tribute to Levon Helm , who died last Thursday. I've mentioned my great love for The Band he...

Invisible by Paul Auster. It's 1967, and aspiring poet Adam Walker is in the middle of his studies at Columbia University , partly to...