It seems to be a perfectly bogstand piece of fantasy fiction. Princes and their squires in a feudal everyworld. Sure there are odd hints about “the wall” but the hints that things may not be what they seem are laid on delicately until the[…]

the more i read about the litter of space dust in orbit round all these other so-called “planets”, the more i like our own homegrown giant lifeless blob — it is big and it is clever[…]

I wonder how newspaper editors (or publishers) prepare for the solemn duty of telling their readers which way to vote. Do they have a special election pen? These things are always written as if they’d been composed at a stout oak desk using the[…]

Take one Mystic River and replace its cast with that of Stand By Me. Make them watch Deliverance, but not Without A Paddle. Add a surprising shake of Swallows & Amazons, and top it off with a dash of My Two Dads.
That’s how you make a Mean[…]

So actually something which might mean something (floating voter = disillusioned voter after all). Glutter is a blog run by a friend* in Hong Kong which probably started, like many a blog as a way of talking about the minutiae of Yan’s day-to-d[…]

To cash in / celebrate its 70th birthday this month, Penguin have published 70 slim titles. The range is eclectic; short stories, essays, travel writing, Borges! Um, Nick Hornby. They are cheap at ‘1.50 each, although I was expecting a cover pr[…]

Amusing article about lookalikes which I initially clicked on because “Charles Kennedy” looks nothing like Charles Kennedy. Imagine my surprise when I read the piece to discover that “Charles” and the lookalike agency FREELY A[…]

It strikes me that my demographic is not what is traditionally thought of as a floating voter. Floating voters are of course so named because most parties would like to subject them to a ducking stool test where the only RIGHT answer is to vote for U[…]

yesterday was the final day of the christian marclay show at the barbican, which is annoying cz i caught it w.an hour to spare and thus can only somewhat impotently tell you that VIDEO QUARTET is the best piece of video art i have EVER SEEN and if yo[…]

this morning the girl who by looks reminds me of rainy’s early-days ilxor friend maryann asked me where i’d been all these weeks
it seemed kinder not to tell her, so i just said “away”[…]