US cinema chain dedicates screens to arthouse and documentaries. I have never understood why multiplexes didn’t do this in the first place. Take Holloway Odeon – it has eight screens of which two have less than sixty seats. Often filled w[…]

Woman Fined £75 For Throwing A Cheesy Wotsit Out Of A Car.
I find Wotsits offensive too. I bet it took them ages to remove the Wotsit dust off of the verge.[…]

ok so beyond-the-veil action continues apace…
i. the most recent agency carer — sensible by day, “sensitive” by night, w.tall tales akimbo — detected a “presence” (ie the kid’s room door, which doesn&#[…]

OK, I don’t expect party election broadcasts to be just one old, white, public school educated bloke sat behind a desk reeling off a list of things their party has done/will do if you vote for them, and i know it’s difficult to run a nati[…]

The reviews of 16 Blocks are almost a text book example of damning with faint praise. A better than average buddy movie, a notch above th usual buddy movie fare – phrases like that don’t make you storm the cinema. And you know what, they&[…]

I was a little bit off the beaten track, stuck – as I believe they call it – In Country in Vietnam. Very friendly people whose food was excellent and all their radios ran of batteries, which were easily stolen. In my time their the only m[…]

i dremt mr sayle came up to me in the street and challenged me to tell him what i thought of his work, only i woke up before i could, so HERE IT IS ALEXEI
(update: as’s besetting sin is TECHNICAL IMPRECISION)[…]

Looking Through Garry Winnogrand’s book Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, initially, I thought it wasnt very good. Though it came via interlibrary loan at the same time as a couple of livestock catalogs, so maybe it was un[…]

Inform 7 is here and it’s crazy mental. I’m very excited, made all the worse because the Mac app is currently (accidentally) Tiger only. The excitement might just be enough to get me to dig out the reams of source code that comprise an ol[…]

YOU WILL NEED:
PROJECT A:
2 and a half x cups x PLAIN FLOUR
4-5 x heaped teaspoons ground ginger
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground cinnamon
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground allspice
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground cloves
half x teaspoon salt [oops i just for[…]