Return to Treasure Island
[See also here, here, here and here]
In Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates Harry Ritchie remarks, a propos the legends of Kidd’s lost treasure, ?the idea of burying loot on a tropical island would have struck[…]

If Ping Pong was too tame for you, and the lack of death in Shaolin Soccer got you down – there is always Battlefield Baseball. Probably not coming to a cinema near us soo.[…]

My favourite views of London
(There’s a few of these so I’m going to write about them across the month)
There’s something about seeing a big city from a distance that’s really satisfying, not only do you get a sense of the siz[…]

BLUDY Observer Sports Monthly!!! I’ve been talking about doing this (or similar) for weeks and they beat me to it. They have missed out a couple of classics though, which i shall tell the tales of here, once i’ve worked out which of the […]

It means nothing without Zone 6 — my first impression of London whenever I’ve visited isn’t of London per se. Or maybe it is but I’ll let the hair splitters decide whether Heathrow is part of London or not.
So what for those […]

Ping Pong (the Japanese film based on the manga) did not seem that unusual a premise for a Japanese film at first. Of course the Japanese are obsessed with table tennis, the inattentive racist in my bonce said. The film picked me up – the scary[…]

The Literary Mind by Mark Turner
A deceptively titled book. It’s about the nature of thought and grammar, and proposes that we invert the way we think about the origin of language, and more specifically the skeleton of concepts underlying langu[…]

Ping Pong – not a film about the dodgiest of Rupert’s chums. Instead a Japanese film about table tennis. Based on a five book manga. That is a five book manga about table tennis. You know the way they say there are manga on every subject […]

BOOM! Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa is a thorough and often fascinating book which still ends up just slightly unsatisfying. He’s been criticised by some reviewers for too many digressions on topics whose connection to the volcano are real […]

The publog has wanted to do something like the Onion AV Club’s survey of crap snack foods for quite some time. We can all be food scientists after all. Was the largest ingredient in Kola Rollerball’s really aluminium? Was their any food v[…]