Photography Christofer C. Dierdorff's extraordinary portrait photographs , including Cage , Tutu and Windsor .

Books  I've been looking forward to Option Lock. There hasn't been a novel by Justin Richards that I haven't liked and I thi...

TV ShakespeaRe-Told The BBC have a listing page up for their upcoming Shakespeare season. So that's Billie Piper with wierd hair in ...

RSS Ten RSS Hacks . Particularly the first one. Because it really works. [ via ]

News Rory Carroll's account of being abducted in Baghdad highlights again the constant risks that some journalists take to keep us in...

Shakespeare The BBC finally have a page up listing their screenings for the upcoming Shakespeare season . There's some really excelle...

TV Is e.r. dead? "But this season's initial episodes arrived as such a nonstop plod through dreariness, unlikelihood and noncomm...

Life I have papercuts. I was in the library yesterday and flattening out some photocopies which were bound a plastic folder and somehow m...

History I'm keeping myself busy. Before going over to a friend's hall for a drink last night (my Dad would be proud - I was on th...

Music I've just spent lunchtime in the company of The Bisserov Sisters , a Bulgarian Vocal Trio. My course base, the Martin Harris Ce...

Links Some bits and bobs (mostly reviews) I've been meaning to post but ... AV Club reviews So Wrong They're Right , a documentary...

Life Apart from some residuals I'm much better, thanks. Whenever a cold or cough or flu drifts away it always leaves a positive outlo...

TV Stuart checks his calender. Notices that it isn't April 1st. Returns to squinting at his screen : "The BBC has commissioned ...

Film "On a final point I think I must be alone in thinking that, after seeing this and The Killing Fields, that Sam Waterston is a te...

Comics Joey deVilla goes to town on the thorny question of how people never see through Clark Kent's glasses, here then here .

Film It had to happen eventually. What amounts to the dvd extras for Peter Jackson's King Kong are being released at the same time a...

Review 2005 Three people so far have been good enough to take up the challenge which is excellent but still leaves at least twenty-six day...

Elsewhere Just learnt that this gets a thousand hits per day. Good lord. I mean who has been reading?

Travel I bought The Times along with my Guardian this morning. Yes, developed a conscience for bumping up the compact's circulation, ...

Life And the cough [cough] continues. I think it may be gaining in volume. Instead the odd person looking in my direction when I [cough]...