Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
This must be the most obscure highly canonical novel. Or maybe just the most obscure such that I knew about – at least, since that poll of living Nobel laureates voting for the greatest books ever, which m[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
3: David Dimbleby Has The Attention Span Of A Gnat
This is all very BBC-centric I know, but after spending quite some time watching ITV calling it for Kerry against mounting evidence[…]

Dem Bones Dem Bones
Channel 4 to show footage of decomposing body – should be gruesomely intriguing.[…]

WE KILLED THE QUIZ
So a couple of weeks ago I remarked on our success finally at a pub quiz, at The Old Dairy. It had been a little bit unsatisfactory though (as Ben outlines here) so we wanted to go back and win again to make it official. So we turn[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
2: “Apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”
Anothe BBC favourite this, when things got a bit quiet they flashed over the the journo with the lime green jacket on i[…]

Did you miss this game?
Then you missed possibly the game of the season, amazing stuff, end to end at such a fast pace it made a typical premiership game look like a 7 inch single playing at 33 & 1/3. And to cap it all, a fantastic winning goal[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
1: In Lieu Of Anything Happening The BBC Became Convinced It Would Be A Draw
About three am GMT, when no new results had come in for about an hour and the various TV panels were clut[…]

What Just Happened
As with any election, the noble art of market research has taken a knocking. The nationwide US polls were wrong and the exit polls were even more wrong (sadly not wrong in the ways most – all? – of this site’s rea[…]