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All I've ever wanted out of life was for people to say: that Dave, he's a pretty straight guy. You know, when he says a thing, you ...

These days we can't just drop everything and jaunt up Pen Y Fan at the drop of a hat, as parental responsibilities tend to intervene. ...

Robbie Robertson , chief creative force behind The Band and intermittent solo artist over the past 30 years or so, and the Duke himself, ...

Here's a thing I've never really understood: house names. I mean, I understand that back in the day some sort of descriptive thing w...

Stand by for a bit more fuckwitted Daily Mail innumeracy . What's wrong with this headline? The answer, of course, is that the cl...

Light and shade, tears and laughter, etc. etc. on the Radio 4 slot I like to call "the one after the Today programme" this week. O...

This week's literary Dead Pool also includes the rather more heavyweight name of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe . All I can tell you ...

I see that James Herbert has died , though of course we shouldn't rule out the possibility that he may yet return as a hideously decom...

Former world and Olympic downhill skiing champion and golfing WAG Lindsey Vonn , and former world tennis #1 and golfing WAG Caroline Wozni...

All the hoo-hah over the election of a new Pope takes me back to my schooldays, specifically 1978 , when I was eight. Yes, I lived through...

I'm a day late, as his birthday was yesterday (he would have been 61) but I think it would be appropriate at this point to offer you a c...

A couple of brief follow-up thoughts on earlier posts: Memorable character though he is, Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men repres...

Here's the latest missive from your friends and mine at Bud's Gun Shop , the lethal hot-lead-propelling device retailer of choice fo...

No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. It's an early morning in 1980 in southern Texas, near the Rio Grande, and Llewellyn Moss...

A brief snippet of the intro to The Band 's signature tune The Weight on the trailer for the new Tom Cruise apocalyptic sci-fi actio...

Let's do another one. Here's this morning's Desert Island Discs castaway , autism expert Dr. Uta Frith (no, me neither), and c...

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Pearl Tull is dying. But do her family flock to her bedside? Well, in general, no, or at...

Miranda 's resident comedy love interest and eye candy for the ladies Tom Ellis , and French loose cannon and one-man rugby calamity fac...

One of the things I quite like about the World Matchplay Championship that's currently underway in Arizona is how straight knockout tou...

Here is my theory, which, while not related to the brontosaurus in any way, is nonetheless mine, and I own it, and what it is too, and it...