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[…]

Not a pub post. Barely a food post. But certainly a Pumpkin post.
Flatmate returned from a trip to France at the weekend with a pumpkin carved into a Jack’O’Lantern. It was after all Halloween (and therefore along with fifty percent of th[…]

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
The future has always held a fascination for people, we’ve always imagining what new technology will bring, but particularly in the 1950s through to the 1980s thoughts of the 21st century influenced all aspects of life, f[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
13: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“It doesn’t feel like three hours”, my companion said as I left the cinema. Perhaps they were not as nuanced at reading their bodies signals. My arse felt the th[…]

Sometimes it is nice being on promoters and agents mailing lists. Look how they spin the disappointing news that Dave Pearce has lost his weekday Radio One show (the part in parentheses is particularly heartbreaking):
Dave Pearce’s diary is now[…]

“The past…now let me tell you about the past…”
Actually, the Month Of The Past would have been a better name for it. We wanted to do a history month on Blog Seven, but felt its scope needed to be a bit wider – now-gone p[…]

Omens and portents…
Redskins loss equals Kerry win etc etc – one of the (few) enviable things about US politics is their forest of signs and portents that ‘predict’ elections, many of which are sporting. Does Britain have any […]

I am not sure why I was looking forward to Rich Hall’s Election Special. After all, I though Rich Hall’s Fishing Show, his previous effort for BBC4, was not any good. But having enjoyed another spin of his Otis Lee Crenshaw character at E[…]

More on “Flores Man”
Nature has now set up a special section on the Flores hominid discovery (or Homo floresiensis — impress your friends!) that Mark UNLEASHED on Proven By Science a few days ago. You know it’s a big discove[…]