Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
I read The Scar first (and reviewed it here, in April I think), but this was his first novel set in the extraordinary SF/fantasy world he has created. It’s not on as grand a scale, not as spectacular in […]

Stumbled across the new series (new being a strange word in this case) of The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy last night on Radio 4. Doing Life, The Universe And Everything.Comments later perhaps on an aging cast (esp Trillian who sounds more like J[…]

RIP Michael Donaghy. Far far too soon.[…]

Tiny Lives
Do you remember autobiographical comics? What – they’re still going? I wouldn’t know. I stopped reading them, oh, four, five years ago. Weirdly enough it was around the time I started reading weblogs – now isn&#8217[…]

SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE ‘EM

And Sometimes they get – BIG!
It is Michael Crawford in a fat suit for his role in the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical The Woman In White. I am hoping that the attendant hooh-hah about this Wilkie Collins adaptat[…]

“my five-year-old cd do better!”
(ans = blimey i can’t get MY five year old to throw ANYTHING away!!) haha yes well anyway i just had an excellent argt w.my nice co-worker abt how rubbish-as-art is just rubbish not art: so far soho[…]

Fred Tomaselli – Monsters Of Paradise: Magnus said before we entered that he had never seen a bad exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. I had: me, Tom and Dr T had seen this Jeff Koons exhibition there and had been particularly un[…]

Londoners! You (if you are anything like me) will hear the news story on the local news on Friday and curse your luck because your weekend will be arranged. It’s Open House weekend again and careful planning is required.
There seem to be more […]

DR and Quinch Have Fun On Earth – the first DR & Quinch story by Alan Moore and Alan Davies in full. Again from the BBC cult comics site. Sorry about that, but I think it needed pointing out all the same.[…]

“More or less, a prophet” — it’s not wrong or even weird of me to say that even though Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers I’m actually far more fascinated by him than his work. If I could master the paradox approa[…]