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Couple of further follow-up observations on old blog posts - firstly, continuing the 2016 theme of celebrity deaths I note the demise of P...

Couple of further cetacean observations: firstly that there was a bit about the whale strandings on the Today programme this morning which i...

As well as keeping you up to date with the latest developments in cock graffiti the world over, here at Electric Halibut we also ensure tha...

The Sea by John Banville. Max Morden, art critic and historian, has come to a nice quiet guest house in a quiet Irish seaside town in t...

Recently- deceased Eagles mainman Glenn Frey, circa the turn of the 1980s (i.e. around the time of The Long Run , after he'd dispensed ...

It seems so obvious in hindsight, but if you're thinking of defacing large areas of land with crude portrayals of giant spurting cocks ...

Just as with my unseemly (for a fortysomething father-of-two, anyway) chortling over the contents of children's books here , the amuseme...

Just to illustrate my point about my relationship with David Bowie's work being one of interest and respect rather than the intense love...

The junior doctors' strike has put Jeremy Hunt's name back on the front pages of late, so it was pretty much inevitable, especially...

Yeah, so this is my Bowie post. Deal with it. Shock revelation: I was never an enormous Bowie fan. I have some of his music, sure, but it...

Couple of footnotes to yesterday's yearly blogging round-up: despite the book count being the equal-second-lowest on record at 19, clos...

Time for the New Year roundup of last year's blog stats and some points of interest, mainly (or more likely only) to me. The numbers dow...

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. It's fair to say there are more hospitable places to grow up than the Ozark mountains of Mis...

This (although it's from the BBC website ) is one of those tabloid-esque pack-as-many-nouns-in-a-row-as-you-can-and-see-if-it-still-make...

A New Dominion by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Ah, India. Land of contrasts, contradictions and a chicken tikka masala for the lady. And don...

Bit of a splurge of blogging tonight as this will probably be my last bloggortunity of 2015, since we'll be away on various New Year tra...

You'll recall my mild surprise at people's level of confusion when we decided to Welsh it up a bit on the arrival of our first chil...

Further additions to the list referred to in this recent post : in addition to Shoaib Malik and Alastair Cook's efforts in Abu Dhabi, b...

As I've said before , I'm slightly wary of getting involved with baking , as the requirement for exactitude and adherence to instr...

You know what you're going to get from this blog, broadly speaking, I like to think: ridicule and/or bile directed at religion and othe...