One of the world’s most beautiful bridges at Mostar in Bosnia has been rebuilt.[…]

Poker bids to become Olympic sport. Despite not actually being a sport. The article mentions that they want to get recognition like chess or bridge, neither of which are Olympic sports. Because they are not sports.
I don’t want to drift into s[…]

Cheat’s Culinary Compendium #3
“Sip your spirits and cure your cold, but I will take Port that will cure all things, even a bad character. For there was never a Port drinker who lacked friends to speak for him.”
Thackeray (quoted, u[…]

Pink pork in ok to eat shocker![…]

Greatest superhero comic story ever?

I was just rereading Grant Morrison’s run on the JLA, and there isn’t a superhero story I love more than his final epic. It starts with Luthor and a couple of other deadly JLA foes banding together, d[…]

Hiroshi Teshigahara
I’ve been to see two films by this old Japanese director at the NFT this week. He’s an interesting figure – I only knew Woman Of The Dunes before, but he was also a painter, sculptor, garden designer and director[…]

Sky Travel
This channel is back on track. It really lost its way for a while. I’m not sure if the concept of travel was misunderstood, but three months ago that indispensable guide to Florida, Baywatch: Miami was on every night.
If you were aft[…]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

Qustion from the Hope and Anchor, Tottenham Lane. A good 30 question quiz, where the questions are quite hard (winning score was 21, we got 19) and the cash prize was guaranteed as over £40 (it looked more like £60 l[…]

Is it a criticism to say that Spider-Man 2 had the same plot as Superman 2? Probably not, one way or another the film was going to be based on something, and rather another relatively successful film than some untried comics. Whilst not a direct reha[…]

Friday Trivia Quiz: thought it might be a larf to go back and excerpt the FIRST EVER POSTS from some prominent-ish blogs, both ancient and recent. Wag of the finger to those whose archives don’t work, though. Some obvious candidates have been a[…]