AVENGERS DAY: All my DYS comments today will in some way refer to the shoddy Avengers film starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.
1: The Stepford Wives
I have not seen a film so butchered in editing as The Stepford Wives since probably The Avengers.[…]

“Fancy popping round for a quick parsnip?” For some reason, these ads have sprung up on the side of buses. An ad for coffee. Not an ad, you will notice, for any particular coffee. Nescafe is no long attacking us with Trinny and Susannah t[…]

Extended online letters pages rool OK
The Observer featured my letter on penalties in their sports letters pages this weekend. Not in the print version, but it’s a start.[…]

What A Palaver!
I’m going to stay out of debates about pop for a while, I think, because
– I don’t feel intellectually sharp enough at the moment
– (more importantly) I end up unintentionally upsetting or offending people I re[…]

Rikyu
This film, which I hadn’t seen before, has gone straight into my personal top ten. It’s the most gorgeous film I’ve ever seen, by a country mile. The leaflet the NFT gave out with this claim it’s too concerned with the a[…]

Alexander Walker’s bequest to the British Museum
The late film critic left a stack of works, the majority prints, to the British Museum, and they are currently displaying a lot of them in the print room (4th floor at the back) until January 200[…]

GLAMPIRES (by mark s) (Bah but k-punk made up the word ‘glampirism’ when he quoted a bit of this piece, so i am jealous…)[…]

PRESENTERATOR
a new semi-regular thing rating the television presenters of current-day Britain
#1: MIKE “Weapons That Made Britain” LOADES
Mike Loades, according to a brief and slightly half-arsed Googling wot I just done, is a fight chor[…]

AN OBLIQUE AND I HOPE NON-RANCOROUS RESPONSE TO BLISSBLOG’s LONG NON-RANCOROUS RESPONSE to etc (zzz)
While tidying up at Stone Lanes, I reread Teach Mark S a Lesson: Louis Prima. As it’s set long ago, it doesn’t strictly speaking a[…]

WHAT ALIENS MIGHT BE LIKE pt something-or-other [isn’t this a PBS series?]
On the whole science fiction novelists are no more convincing (though maybe more inventive) than science fact dreamers. Frank Herbert is the exception.[…]