Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
My favourite Christmas present from last month was this collection of all of Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar stories from the original run of Love & Rockets, a hardback volume with over 500 pages of comics. Like mo[…]

Council Estate Of Mind – Skinnyman
A bit late, in that it came out last year, but I’ve only just got it, and really want to give it a bit of a push. I think it’s the best straight hip hop album produced in the UK last year (that is,[…]

TAB {no, not that kind} UPDATE
It had been settled, an investigation concluded yesterday.
As it was LUNCHTIME, I stayed for two pints and a catfish po-boy (blackened, with tasty remoulade and the most remarkable side of tangy crisps).
Delicious.
The […]

Day 9: The Sound Of The Underground
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

I crept back into the container to sleep, not trusting the strange sounds of this island. Hunger did over-take me the night before though and I trapped, killed and skinned one of[…]

My brother and I went to this event at the Royal Society last night, because we had both read Diamond’s previous book Guns, Germs and Steel, and enjoyed it (although neither of us finished it, but hey). The lecture was introduced by the Preside[…]

h.potter rural industry salvation shockah:
“Unexpected factors come into play, such as the buoyant country house market, the rise of ‘green’ consumerism, the influence of TV gardening personalities – even a welcome boost to b[…]

SUBMISSION FOR PBS SIDEBAR LINK STATUS?
www.dinosaurnews.org is vouched for by dunedin’s leading dino-portraitist, plus also as well has LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT DINOSAURS (and the words “jollyroger” in its subsidiary URLs!)[…]

Light by M. John Harrison
It’s hard to avoid wordplay in talking about this: it’s a dazzling, brilliant novel. It’s the most successful fiction I’ve ever seen at embedding quantum physics, on every level – it’s dee[…]

I have an admission to make. My relationship with Wong Kar-Wai films is not one of slavish devotion. Both In The Mood For Love and now 2046 were slow starters for me. I love them both, but in both cases I was half asleep for the first hour. I am sugg[…]

Cartoonist ‘jailed’ over Jesus comic: Comics in the US are often picked as easy targets for testing offence and blasphemy laws – disappointing to find that the same may be true in the EU. Of course, based on the news story’s s[…]