Final reel fandango
Randomly turning on the telly on a lazy day at the home of your choice is a good way to catch the best bits (i.e. the last half-hour) of films that you can’t be arsed watching all the way through. As it so happened this las[…]

“I have always been delighted by Deleuze’s disdain for ‘travelling’”: K-Punk’s holiday write-ups (scroll up on the main page of his site for some stuff on Portmeiron). I can’t claim more than the most nodding aquai[…]

“Margaret Meehan, Parkdale?”
Don’t know how this will translate to the Brits but I never do, did y’all have SCTV over there ever? Did it become a cult over there the way it did over here with lonely kids who stayed up way too […]

In August 2004 Blog Seven was a weblog about London.[…]

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t give a crap about the Kobe Bryant rape trial, but check out this article :
The Science of the Brief Encounter
It looks to be a well-researched overview of the key physical evidence in the case (incl. DNA evidence). The […]

Next up, the Earth twins — if the results hold, looks like we’ve now found evidence of Neptune-sized planets around other stars, and predictions are more are on the way. No visual sightings of these small ones for a long time, if ever, f[…]

Leaving London — whenever I do leave London it’s always the end of whatever trip I’ve been on to Europe, wherever else I’ve been in the country or continent. It was the case the last three times, it will be again next year wh[…]

Vanishing London: The Harvill Press London Writing Series
I read Harvill books. I don’t read any old Harvill book, obviously, because some of them look very long and very boring but there’s an amazing strike-rate of quality in the numbere[…]

Super-villain Names News: uncharted territory entered (via ILC)[…]

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
I’m not going to review this book. On Amazon, dan2004 says “you certainly get a lot of laughs per pound” and “A reader” says “I kept putting itdown and down and down aga[…]