Dracula (Part One – England)
I don’t know why I hadn’t read Dracula. I like old-skool horror as much as the next weirdo, but I’d never even picked it up. A few weeks ago I was chatting about family trees to my girlfriend&#8217[…]

just call me statto…

(i expect this wayne rooney joke is ancient by now but it was new to me last night when my friend glyn made it and i laughed so now you can) (unless you heard it before already)[…]

i wub hackney part #238457
ok so stelfox suggested we go to this newish vietnamese place on mare street, and between us as seasoned public cuisineers being maybe more showoffy adventurous we picked choices we probably wouldn’t have done if we&[…]

an “experienced reality TV psychologist“??
the one-word version is “scientician”[…]

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
I wasn’t at all sure whether I’d like Palahniuk. He wrote Fight Club, a clever film I liked, so he seemed worth a try, but I wondered if he might be just a smart cult author with nothing much to offer. But I enjoy[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: part 6
Through various mechanisms I have had the opportunity to watch television in my own house twice during the past week. And what did I vicariously experience? 1) desperate humiliation (England v France) and 2) someone fartin[…]

Quarks and their Sexual Preferences
“The top is so massive and short-lived that it does not live long enough to combine with other quarks to form a hadron.”
(this = muster mark s’s contribution to bloomsday obv)[…]

BRUB! BRUB! BRUB![…]

Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
I read her Looking For The Possible Dance several months ago, and liked it enough that I bought some more by her, but I wasn’t expecting to be anything like as impressed by this tremendous novel.
It’s a[…]

Anthony Easton says:
Some of this film reviews on IMDB claim that it is far fetched, that straight camps do not exist, and others talk of it as a piece of homosexual propaganda, making fun of the vert services young queers might need. The first shoul[…]