– OMG it’s Murray Lachlan Young
– how the FUCK has he got a full-length story on BBC News?
– WTF he is married to ZOE???
– “Tea With The Taleban”, yes that sounds like him all right
– god, weren’t[…]

BBC Talking Point, long your #1 destination for knee-jerking and button-pushing, has recently redesigned and now has a ‘recommendations’ system on replies, whereby you can click on “most recommended” and see the viewer comment[…]

during the who’s-most-famous competition, the GG, in a huff bcz barrymore and rodman merely ASSUMED top slot wz between them, muttered: “If it’s worldwide, I’m the most famous. Virtually every Muslim in the world, which is one[…]

can i just be the first to note we have a new ROLEPLAY AVATAR (to add to the bez, the xander, the julia lennon etc)
viz the “GG”, whose presence totally juices up the guilty-pleasures crowd* by “validating” the object-at-issu[…]

Jonathan Meades’ show last night on Stalin and Architecture was so annoying. It promised to be a welcome exposition on a often-derided subject that’s generally dismissed glibly in one fell swoop.
But that’s not what we got. It was[…]

Short story collections which are presented as novels: they annoy me. I read two over the Christmas period, both of which were good short story collections, one of which was really straining trading standard rules to be presented as a novel, let alon[…]

nate one
Rhonda Anderson
I was w. mom again for new years, and we went for new years eve to the local lds church—I grew up there and mom was a member, and I took some photos, none of them really turned out, but I posted a couple on flickr, ju[…]

RIP Maurice Dodd: creator of The Perishers.[…]

There’s never been another writer anything like Oates, and although she is clearly immensely admired and respected, I don’t think she is as treasured as she should be. She is – no contest – the most prolific serious literary w[…]

Whatever happened to Uncle?: fine article from the Economist on the neglected children’s classic beloved of some Freaky Trigger writers. I think they’re basically right about the books and why they don’t sell – Uncle is a very[…]