electrichalibut.co.uk

Bear with me once again as I indulge my fondness for map-related trivia. Here's an interesting little website that uses data from the ...

I got the train and bus into work this morning, something I used to do every day but now only do when there's a specific reason to. That...

Recoil in horror, readers, as the Electric Halibut LIIIIIIBRARY OF DEEEEEEAAAAATH claims another victim. This time it's Italian polymath...

A couple of brief additions to the previous post: firstly you'll notice that there appear to be two summit shots in the photo gallery, o...

As I've said before , when you're a parent of two, and (in my case) married to someone whose work commitments often extend into wee...

A bit of unfortunate slapdash photo-captioning in this match summary of France's slightly unexpected 10-9 win over Ireland in the first...

I have a bit of a thing for spicy food, as anyone who's kept up with my periodic documentation of my Korean noodle fetish will know ....

The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis. A man walks into a remote Kentucky town. Not your typical Kentucky town-dweller: tall, pale,...

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...