Film Being slightly too old to care at the time, I never did own a troll, the only kind I really encountering as a child being the monst...

Politics A friend in the US has been kind enough to send me a Clinton/Kaine 16 campaign t-shirt.  As well as actually wanting to register ...

Lunch. £3.50. The Bakery, Atkinson Art Gallery and Library, Lord St, Southport PR8 1DB. Phone: 01704 533333. Website.

Film Unlike some directors, and actors, Martin Scorsese is unafraid to give interviews. The IMDb lists three hundred and fifteen appear...

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cit...

Art "They're on the wall there, there, there, at the end there..." The restaurant worker has obviously had the same conve...

"Well, if that's what you want. I mean it's a bit soon... I had so many places I had wanted to take you. The Fifteenth Broken...

"Cut! Cut! Who let those bums in here?" -- Steinberger P. Green, "The Feast of Steven" Art In a rare move, I...

"Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. Wears down the cliff tops, the mountains. The whole of the world. Water always wins....

"You are here because you want to know the truth about this starship. And I am talking to you because you’re entitled to know. When t...

Lunch. £4.50. Warehouse Cafe, Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Rd, Manchester M3 4FP. Phone: 0161 832 2244. Website.

Film After last week's visit to blogging in 2005, let's shift backwards in time slightly further to 2002 and the BBC's The C...

Film Back in March, you'll remember with all your long memories, that I cancelled my Lovefilm account after twelve years and wrote ine...

TV Happy 50th anniversary Star Trek! Typically on a day like this I would have posted something about how Star Trek has influenced me ...

"It's like a silence you can almost hear..." -- Barbara Wright, The Space Museum Next Destination: Open Eye Gallery

Lunch. £4.50. Brasco Lounge, Mann Island Buildings, 27a Buildings, Liverpool Waterfront L3 1BP. Phone: 0151 236 5085. Website.

TV As you'll be aware, last night saw another of the BBC's Doctor Who related midnight announcements in which we all knew full wel...

TV Cold Feet returned to television last night after over a decade off-air ( this blog offered a paragraph about the now not final episode...

Film Back in the day, back in 2005, when blogs were still in L'Age d'Or, before Twitter, Facebook and YouTube stole their thunde...

Shakespeare It's been announced that the Shakespeare's Globe production of A Midsummer's Night Dream is to be live streamed th...