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Much has been written about Andrew Strauss ' departure from the England captaincy this week, so I'll restrict myself to a couple of...

Idoru by William Gibson. Colin Laney has a weird talent - he's able to detect patterns in computer data by picking out "nodal poi...

Brand names that I never really "got" until having a belated forehead-slapping moment of "oh, riiiigghht! " revelatory c...

This one from a couple of days ago on the BBC website : This is of course another crash blossom as previously mentioned here and here...

Age Of Iron by JM Coetzee. Mrs. Curren is a retired classics professor living in Cape Town at the tail-end of the 1980s. Not only is th...

Leaving aside a bit of disagreement on how best to handle the foul stench emanating from their groinal areas, we're all pretty much dow...

Just a quick addition to the last post: my teasing reference and subliminal link to Nigel Kneale 's 1968 drama The Year Of The Sex Olym...

I suppose it's obligatory to do a post at least tangentially related to the Olympics, so here goes. Tangentially, though, remember, so n...

Never mind Allah writing his name in aubergines and all that stuff, here's a haunted piece of salami I found last night! Now I ass...

It was a double helping of early morning shouting at the radio in the car last week. And a good thing too as I find it really sets me up for...

The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston. Stella meets Martyn on a train, some time in the early 1960s. She is an impressionable young woma...

Here's your regular religious arsebasketry round-up. Firstly another data point in support of my theory that most high-profile Amer...

Here's a cool addition to the list of Interesting Things You Can Do With Google Maps - a little widget that shows you where in the worl...

Cell by Stephen King. Clayton Riddell is a graphic artist, and he's in a pretty good mood, because he's just been to a meeting ...

Here's a thought that occurred to me while watching Maria Sharapova win the French Open a couple of weeks ago. No, it wasn't t...

We've all seen those hilarious adverts from the 1950s for " intimate hygiene " products , and had a good old chuckle at the...

The Gift Of Stones by Jim Crace. 1327 , schmirteen -twenty-seven. That's practically last week. Let's go right back to the Ston...

Normally the fact that I live in Wales while I work and occasionally socialise in England doesn't have any major impact on my life, exce...