Well the cheating tactic worked. Except the cheating was not as outlined below. The Arsenal vs Fulham Women’s League title decider actuall kicked off at about 7pm – time enough to get everyone out and sell new tickets to the new punters. […]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
Whiskey In The Jar
I could talk about the Thin Lizzy version. I could talk about the Dubliners version. This si a song which has been around for ages after all. So much so that the songwriter credit on it is alway just […]

Everyone is getting excited about all the up coming summer movies. Alright, not everyone, but the marketing machinery is there to suck us in despite years of knowledge that the strike rate on good/bad wanders in at about 20% worthwhile. Anyway, not f[…]

HOLIDAY READING = House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
OK so to patch up his collapsing marriage, a World-Famous Photographer buys a house in the Virginia boonies – except when the family move in, they discover a secret room which CAN’[…]

It’s rare that a book review makes me this incensed, but Dick Teresi’s smug throwdown of the new tome “Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids” in the New York Times Book Review this week did just that. While the book i[…]

As a former maths teacher (briefly), you can imagine how impressed I am with this woman’s teaching. (Brought to my attention by Anthony Easton.)[…]

My quest to rid the world of music is occasionally a lonely one. But there are some issues on which I feel I am well-supported. Pub rock is one of these. Let us be frank: nobody except the truly feebleminded has ever, once, drawn a second’s ple[…]

The Saddest Music In The World is not a Leonard Cohen biopic, but despite that (or probably because of it) it manages to be a whole mess of fun. The plot? The literally legless Isabella Rosellini is running a saddest music in the world contest at her[…]

FICTIONAL FOOD EATEN IN CHILDRENS BOOKS #2: Toffee Trees
In The Magician’s Nephew, Digory plants a toffee which in the enchanted soil of Narnia grows overnight into a toffee-tree. “The fruit was delicious; not exactly like toffee?softer f[…]

FOODS EATEN IN CHILDRENS’ BOOKS #3: Ginger Beer
Lashings. Of course.
Drinks in childrens books, especially those of an ealier age, show an almost slavish fetishisation of fizzy drinks. Birthday parties when presented in Blyton were always accom[…]