Tokyo had defeated me. What with its cans of sweat and its omnipresent neon, it was like someone was constantly playing AC/DC at me all the time. And that makes Tanya a very upset girl. So I decided to get out of town and see more of this great natio[…]

One can imagine some sort of Gallic CSI wasting hundreds of man-hours on this case: namely that of a murdered woman that they could not identify because it turns out the body was 500 years older than first imagined. Why they did not cut through her l[…]

Well at least we know that he can probably survive the tirals and tribulations of prison.
Huzzah, everyone loves a “winner is loser” story.[…]

What do you think of when someone says Isabel Allende? The House Of The Spirits? Nice solid family saga type storytelling? Eva Luna?
Zorro?
I know. That’s why I picked it up at the library. What was Isabel Allende doing writing something calle[…]

Those of us whose bodies were hard-wired in the 1970’s often accidentally slip into the trap of repeating past behaviour. Habit, I believe the behaviourists call this. Anyway, one of my worst habits is typing www.freakytrigger.com, the poor los[…]

‘Pret Burns’[…]

OK this is not an proper omlet but a SPANISH OMLET minus TATERS but PLUS PAELLA but MINUS RICE
i. Fry big bunch of pre-cooked shrimps or prawns in butter and a bit olive oil, ideally in griddle pan (=has little ridges)
ii. Also smoked mackerel (take[…]

Also from Never Had It So Good by D.Sandbrook:
“When the budding promoter Andrew Loog Oldham wanted to impress the American record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s he took him to lunch at the Angus Steak House in Soho.”[…]

From Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook:
“The writer Peter Vansittart recalled an appearance by [Colin] Wilson at the ICA, where he announced: ‘Man’s enemies are herd-values, triviality, the weight of mental inertia, stale id[…]

Peter Sarsgaard and Stellan Skarsgård are not related.
I know, it makes it really difficult to make glib comparisons (where none are appropriate) between their acting. And watching Jarhead at the weekend I realised just how many Peter Sarsgaard movi[…]