Books  Regular readers will know that Vampire Science has been an elusive book to get hold of.  Whilst I've been hammering ebay for ...

Film Is Paul Thomas Anderson helping Robert Altman to direct his new film? [ via ]

Film Just in case anyone missed it, here is that excellent Japanese poster for The Passion of the Christ . It's worth investigating t...

The Road To Beijing Michelle Dillon was fifth in the ITU World Cup on yesterday in Corner Brook, a city of 20,000 in Canada?s easternmost...

Art Here is a flickr stream for the Gormley installation I nearly ruined myself seeing at the weekend. [ via ]

Blogs This is an unusual one . A New York Times writer has an article published in which she talks about her nanny and all the 'shock...

Life I ended up throwing out the boots I was wearing yesterday. Too much sand and moisture in the wrong places and a too rich smell. It ...

Keyboards Optimus ! I just hope the keys still clack when you hit them.

My boots were stuck in the sand. Actually they were deeper than the sand. I was in the mud. My boots were stuck in the mud. I tried to p...

Elsewhere I'm part of a round robin guest blog thing at Troubled Diva . For some reason I always end up being more introspective and ...

Film I don't know why I feel so disappointed because really, making a film about the Edinburgh Festival is an impossible task, for the...

Life During the two minutes silence I bowed my head, close my eyes and listened. There was still sound. The broken fan in the office cla...

Words When I was at primary school, everyone was gifted a small blue pocket Collins dictionary as part of our English education. In an id...

TV The Morse spin-off Lewis is going ahead . Much of the original team are there, so it might still have the quality. Will the same the...

Life I was in WH Smiths at lunchtime buying a card and noticed that their Get Well Soon cards are stored in the same rack as the Sympathy ...

The Weather Remember I mentioned yesterday how warm it was around here? According to the local paper , it was as hot as Athens: "TOX...

Film I've always said that watching Like Water For Chocolate on the night it was released in the UK, was the moment when I knew that ...

Games Jeff Minter of Llamasoft writing software for X-Box 360 . No mention of mutant camels.

Photography Kareem and I II Originally uploaded by Shavar . Shavar Ross , actor, is posting photos from his past to flickr. For this extra...

Firefox Edit the menus . Something else for me to fiddle about with when I should be blogging. Which is what I would be doing if the hea...