Writing Bit busy today, but as 'treat' I thought I'd offer this short play I wrote in 1997. Sorry about the wierd formatting...

Us Speaking of university, I spent three years there living this nightmare as well.

Art Why am I not surprised that in the “Renaissance in the regions” scheme , the only art galleries in the North West seem to be in Manch...

Music I remember disinctly the first time I failed to listen to Guns 'n' Roses' 'Appetite for Destruction' album. I w...

Photography The Romanian series of Katleen Laraia McLaughlin : "My purpose is to capture and convey images of their way of life befor...

TV All of which said, a poster at the Digital Spy message boards stutteringly reports that new channel ftn will be rerunning thirtysomet...

Backlog Wonderful You [1999] We’ve all been here before. This is a show from the genre which brought you ‘Cold Feet’, ‘This Life’ and ...

Games Mum's birthday tonight. Been to Ego for a meal. Long day really so short of inspiration tonight. So'll just gift you the...

Blog! Bloggies again . Not nominated again. But I think some things are supposed to be kept secret ...

Sport My Dad and I tried to have a football conversation this morning at breakfast time: Dad: They won last night. Me: Who? Dad: Liverp...

TV The whole map of US tv is set to change. With 'Friends' definately ending next year (although where have we heard that before)...

History This for some reason reminded me of this: TRAIN STATION. DAY The station is in the middle of a moor. There appears to be no habit...

Film Richard Linklater's follow-up to 'Waking Life' and 'Tape' follows a Manhatten tour guide to the site of the World...

TV The UK coverage of The Golden Globes has been bizarely massive considering none of the actually winners have actually been relased here...

TV In a fantastically pointless example of programming, the BBC are celebrating best TV moments on 2002 . Apart from the fact the new yea...

TV I've been receiving a fare few hits from people looking for information about the new series 'The Book Group' (which starts...

TV I joined RI:SE v2 at about 8’oclock this morning. The usually verbose Edith Bowman seemed tongue tied in the face of Iain Lee flying ...

Books Nora Ephron's mother, on her death bed, told her daughter that she should have a notebook out because 'Everything's copy...

Business At college, I had two supermarketing options. There was the Morisson's in Leeds city centre, which was big, cheap and had gr...

Travel Whenever I want to go on a shopping spree I go to Manchester. This makes the case that Peru is good alternative.