Photography Le Grand spectacle Originally uploaded by Tampen . For some reason this makes up for Doctor Who not being on tv this week. Six...

TV Remember that test card with the girl, the chalk, the blackboard and the clown. It was transglobal ...

Site News I've decided to try a new experiment. Can a blog like mine with its small but loyal audience make Google Text Ads workable?...

If a human being were to eat black pudding followed by king prawns and washed down with a glass of milk, due to the un-stable chemical mixtu...

One of the miriad questions posed over the past couple of days related to who we'd all want to see writing the series. BBC News are say...

Film A few months ago I went to a book group and everyone had been reading the James Bond novel Casino Royale . In the midst of the discu...

Beliefs Whilst I wrestle with the thought that I might be a Humanist after reading the Wikipedia entry , I read that a kid on the other si...

Art Classical art pop culture lookalikes ... actually the first one also looks like the late Spalding Gray more than Peter Stringfellow. ...

Book Another excellent book title, this time written by Emily Dubberley : You Must Be My Best Friend... Because I Hate You!: Friendship a...

Music The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one he said ... possibly to coincide with the release of the new film ver...

Books Is this really what women want? Erica Jong's What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power . Actually I like the honesty of th...

TV I have noticed that I've been geeking out all over for the past the months (months?) with my one track mind flying about in space a...

In the Steven Spielberg film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' during the scene when we've discovered that Roy has built a sc...

Music The acoustic version of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill is being released in July in the UK (so I've no need to pest...

Film Will Layman at Pop Matter writes a very handy review of the Star Wars Revenge of the Sith soundtrack cd: "But then, whatever yo...

TV Another example of wierdness from this bizarre alternative dimension we've all strayed into. BBC Chairman Michael Grade praises Do...

TV Another example of weirdness from this bizarre alternative dimension we've all strayed into. BBC Chairman Michael Grade praises Do...

DVD Review of Robert Bresson's The Trail of Joan of Arc , which I saw during The Philosophy of Film class and has images which will s...

TV Not watching much tv (now that a certain programme isn't on tv for the time being I can't think of any must sees right now) it...

The Weather What I should have added is that about an hour after I dragged by scorched bones home, the thunder started and it's rained...