Film More casting news for the film version of Hitchhikers . The suitably whooshily named Zooey Deschanel will be essaying the underwritt...

Quote! I was watching BBC News 24 before I left for work. Some young correspondent had been plonked in front of Downing Street to describ...

Records According to Newsnight tonight Greg Dyke might not look for another job, which means he'll have plenty of time for a bath. S...

Life A man passing heard the following, my side of a conversation I was having with my Mum on my mobile phone: "What? Aaah no. B...

Reader's Letters New reader Kirsten Pike from Australia offers the following pithy response to my Oscar predictons yesterday ... How s...

Life Here I am mid week and the late finishes are really beginning to stick. Apart from the freezing weather when I left work it's th...

Music Maybe Morissette really is Almighty God . Actual headline.

Film Winged Migration is called Travelling Birds in Australia. Why?

Game The Quest For The Crown . Dare you take up the challenge? [via Metafilter ]

Film So here we are again. Oscar 2004. I couldn't let it slip by without giving my punts for the various awards. --- Best pict...

Life Late night week at work puts me in a spin where I really want to blog but I'm too tired for coherence, so apologies if updates ar...

Film Frame one: Stuart doesn't like waiting in line for films. He goes to the cinema on his own a lot and never knows what to do wh...

Photography Aerial shots of my friend Fani's village Vavdos ... taken from a hand glider ! How did that happen? Perhaps these peopl...

Referrer logs Google Search: "at that moment i knew. i knew the way you know about a good melon." (?)

Psychology Social depressives: "When I go to a party," said Jared Paul Stern, the executive editor of Star tabloid, "I'...

Theatre One for the school kids. Someone's decided that Milton's Paradise Lost would make a great stage play. What all twelve b...

LIfe Took my Dad to the FACT centre tonight. He seemed kind of impressed in the way that he's always kind of impressed about everythi...

Relationships Blog favourite Emily Dubberley 's contributed great piece to The Guardian about online dating. Not that I took any not...

Appeal My video completely decided not to tape the double bill of e.r. last night. I don't suppose anyone has a copy?