Biographers of film directors tend not to follow the example of their literary cousins in that intense examination of inner life is usual eschewed in favour of discussion of the director’s work itself. This makes perfect sense inasmuch as film […]

Pub Science Experiment #1
The Railway Bell, Mitcham Road
Category: nearly-Railway
In the shiny darkness of a rainy late autumn evening in London’s South Western suburbs, the Railway Bell looks rather promising. From the front it’s wide b[…]

WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?

Want to know more about the place you were born, the town you grew up in, or the city you’ve just moved to? http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp gives you a detailed look at the history of places in the uk. It&#8[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
11: CLUELESS
Whodathunk that the highest paid alumnus from Clueless would be Brittany Murphy?
This plays in nicely to the pieces written about Mean Girls and Saved! over the last couple of days because Clueless is their loving parent[…]

Beyond Zone 7: Beer in space – of course it has been tried. It would be stronger than earth beer according to drink scientists but you would need to drink it out of a plastic bag. This suggests to me that space beer is in fact Tennents Super.[…]

Nothing to see here…
…but Popular is, how you say, ‘back’. And it has something that Alan tells me I shouldn’t actually call a graph.[…]

Auguste Bartholdi
What’s the biggest gap between the fame of a sculpture and the obscurity of its creator? I can’t think that anything beats this man’s most famed work: the Statue of Liberty. (He created the original, and Gustave Ei[…]

Internet Explorer Must Die Part 2351
What’d’ya know? Mozilla.org seems busy today.
I find the fanaticism surrounding Firefox alarming and puzzling. According to BBC news, “Fans of the software have banded together to raise cash to p[…]

Pub Science
This is the first in a (possible) series of experiments in thepubology. It has become clear that greater rigour may be necessary in our understanding of the pub.
Experiment #1: The Railway
The proposition which we will set out to test is[…]

Douglas Coupland – Eleanor Rigby
I always look forward to Douglas Coupland books.
In typical style, Eleanor Rigby is buzzing with ideas; Liz is a grown-up Coupland character (someone who would have received less sympathy in earlier novels). She[…]