Also ' Far From Heaven ' -- 'Pleasantville' for adults, which cleverly offers a coherent, heartfelt, engrossing film even ...

Quote! Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? Now begot, how nourished? Reply, reply, reply. It is engender'...

Literature When Orpah ... sorry Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be resurrecting her book of the months club, but dedicating it this...

Sport I hate cricket. There isn't anything funny about watching a bunch of men who would rather be at the pub standing in a field gla...

Contact Every now and then, someone whose work I've mention on the weblog actually gets in touch. I just got an email from Cynthia Ba...

Blogbar Welcome to the world's largest group photo, taken last summer at The Matthew Street Festival in Liverpool. It's a slightl...

Life Last summer when my computer had lost the will to start up, as a stop gap I purchased a GameBoy. Not Advance. Not Colour. Not the ...

Charity Watching Comic Relief tonight ... so no update ... I would urge you though ...

Food An extraordinary thing happened to me in the Subway tonight at tea time. Nowhere else in the vicinity of the cinema is really open ...

Film When I was thirteen years old, I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time, or rather the first time when I was paying attenti...

Film Musical "Groundhog Day" is going to re-appear soon as a stage musical by Stephen Sondheim. [via Gawker ]

Film Musical The next project for Stephen Sondheim is going to be a stage musical version of "Groundhog Day" [via Gawker ]

Film Musical Stephen Sondheim has decided his next project should be a stage musical version of "Groundhog Day" [via Gawker ]

Excuses I've been looking over a TV script I wrote when I still had time on my hands. I've shown it to a few friends and the gene...

Future My submission to the Book of the Future has been edited and appears here . It's called 'This Indie Future' and looks a...

Quote! "space is infinite without ending all within it just beginning" ['Vulcan Child's Koan' -- I was a rabid Star Tr...

Art (?) Somewhere along the Erie, Indiana has grown a wax museum . But rather than follow the Taussards model, they've gone for the lo...

Journalism The Economist (like a small child trying to work out why their stones actually break windows) fishes around trying to account ...

News No comment on this (the article speaks for itself) as Pedro Meyer of ZeroZero discusses those photos . "Precisely because photog...

Blogbar Gameshow themed new Blogbar courtesy of Graham from OffTheTelly . Everyone else is free to submit or create their own -- just sen...