About Some notes on Liverpool Blogs which I'm posting here because ironically by design the Liverpool Blogs page doesn't have a b...

That Day Six more weeks of winter : Gov. Tom Corbett professed his early spring preferences just prior to Punxsutawney Phil’s 126th annu...

Film And we're back to the well ... "A division of SModCo, SModcast Pictures covers the visual spectrum of S.I.R. and SModcast....

Travel Jeffrey Steingarten of Vogue Magazine inadvertantly goes of the beaten track in Tokyo : "The one unpleasant experience on ou...

Film Flavorwire has an intelligent explanation as to why the Ferris Bueller-style car ad is so repellant : "So why do we care so mu...

Games Charlie Brooker visits Tokyo : "Of course, it helps that Japan has, for years, been presented as a kind of Nerd Mecca. Not on...

Audio Back in the mists of time, Dragon , the magazine about roleplaying games had a long article about converting scenarios from one sy...

Life This morning, I helped to save someone from killing themselves. It’s about half nine and I’m waiting as usual for my bus to work. ...

Competition   A couple of weeks ago a PR from HarperCollins emailed wondering if I’d be interested in reviewing their author Dean Koontz’s n...

Some pop history found today.  Signed copy of Atomic Kitten's 2001 cd single, Whole Again featuring the second line up after Natasha h...

Radio Part of AudioGo’s attempt to release everything Fry, here’s an Archive on Four episode , Stephen Fry Does The Knowledge from a co...

Theatre John Wyver attends Noises Off and ironically has difficulty hearing the show due to the incessant talking from the audience : ...

Film Miranda July Called Before Congress To Explain Exactly What Her Whole Thing Is : "Though finding her polite, many lawmakers la...

TV There are perhaps two especially embarrassing home videos of me in circulation (circulation in this case meaning the vaults at the Ro...

Audio After securing Tom Baker’s services and deciding to produce a series that recreates the feel of his 70s adventures, the next logic...

People Not too long ago, Claire Danes was endorsing paint . Now that her new show Homeland has been a hit with awards nominations and wha...