Sport Yeah! Pity I was watching the shockingly bad monther-in-law from hell thriller Hush at the time. As one reviewer from Rotten Tom...

Life Heard in the street today. Two teenaged boys with cropped haircuts, tracksuits and extremely strong scouse accents. Teen 1: Have...

Sport I think the word for the Olympics opening ceremony in Greece was gloopy. Pacing wise it reminded me of the film Saving Private Rya...

Blogging Just spent the past three hours recording an audioblog entry only to find that it was too long and therefore too massive to uploa...

Life Rained again today. But much less. I think my jinx may be broken. Watched Midnight Cowboy tonight. Never mind that being the fir...

Theatre Casting Shakespeare with Muppets: "Miss Piggy automatically gets the female lead, whether or not she's suited to the char...

Film Incredibly linkable article about the Internet Movie Database. I've been using it for years, even before it sold out to Amazon ...

Life Apologies if you experienced heavy rain fall and/or widespread flooding today. It was totally my fault and I'm not proud of mys...

Obituary "What a week. I'm just imagining that somewhere in heaven there's an almighty party going on with Fay Wray, Rick Jam...

Film While I'm linking to Guardian Unlimited, in yesterday's Observer there was a very good, positive interview by Simon Garfield...

Games I miss Aleks Krotoski when she left the television screens up on the end of the last great attempt at making a show about computer g...

Film I-Robot is an extraordinarily kinetic film. During many of the action sequences the camera weaves and bends around the scenes to th...

Ego Waxy has created a league table of Metafilter sources -- and there I am at no. 18810 just above straightjackets.com. Although all th...

Music I would say that a good percentage of the music I listen to is from film soundtracks -- usually the quasi-music inspired by and from...

Sculpture About two years ago I wrote: "I love art. I was almost part of the art world. But I can count the number of art objects th...

Blog! Exhibit A in my case for continuing to use The Rules on this weblog (even though of late its meant that things have been a bit dull...

Film You will have noticed that the Saturday Scene Unseen has taken a break, although something new will be along soon. In the meantime ...

TV Although I've only minimally been following it the last couple of months, I wanted Shell to win Big Brother . I did as soon as I s...

Film (what again?) Useful piece from Suw which equates the formats of scripts and weblogs, what constitutes each and whether pinning down...

Film A remarkably honest interview with Joe Dante about his career before and after the just about Ok Looney Toons: Back In Action : ...