Trauma is told from the point of view of an unreliable narrator who is a bit mad so he does not even know how unreliable he is. It also contains hallucinations, non sequiteurs and events that did not happen in the story, outside of the story or indee[…]

Further to Pete’s comments on a less healthy way to “five a day” see below for a stall seen on Blackpool’s Central pier. Sorry for the shoddy phone-cam picture, but it was all we had to hand.

That list of choco-coated fruit […]

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[…]

Stop eating your spinach — the future of hydro may depend on it
Spinach Could Power Better Solar Cells
They report a light-to-electrical efficiency of 12%, which in itself isn’t bad. I believe that’s not atypical even for “c[…]

Chronicles of fashion science[…]

Hot Stuff. Perhaps this is de rigeur down in Londres, but on my trip to Norwich last week I was amazed/amused to see the latest in vending technology installed at the station… or perhaps the amusing thing was that as soon as someone dragged the[…]

FT Top 100 Films
26: JAMON JAMON
You’ve got to love any director called Bigas Lunas. It promises a level on nutsiness you just don’t get from people called John Sayles, George Lucas or John Waters. Perhaps that’s why I like John Wat[…]

the revolution devours its own children pt 234523

M&S just started a new pre-cooked dinners line, “a delicious new range of dishes inspired by modern pub meals” —> and it’s called GASTROPUB, and i’m not going to r[…]

Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic (see below) prompts this vital question over at I Love Comics. I’d never really given it much thought before but it seems odd that there was never a Beatles comic, or a Bay City Rollers comic, or a Mo[…]

The sport on TV most often in my boyhood was Chess. My Dad used to play Chess – pretty well, too, he won his club tournament 11 times in a row and they had a special rose bowl made after the tenth, so when he finally lost the cup he’d hav[…]