The stir-fry. It is not a thing in itself, it is a method of cooking. And yet it gets referred to as an end product not a process; where in the seventies Wednesday night might have been Spag Bol night, these days it may well be stir fry night. Its ea[…]

Mmmm…nice – “daily adventures in Jazz” – do you know I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dedicated Jazz blog before, though of course lots of people (Josh in particular springs to mind) have written quite a lot ab[…]

Anatomy of a Meme: things described as “TARDIS-like” (thanks Google)
– analysers on a Mars probe
– a shed
– a Police Box (hmm)
– the Dust Bar on Clerkenwell Road
– a dice on Kids TV progamme Maths In A Box
&#[…]

B-but surely the “urine varnish” scene will be on the DVD!!?[…]

Scarlett Johanssen is probably one of the reasons why I shall not be seeing Gurl with Perl & Lost in Trans (shortening names = new roc and rol!). I was getting along perfectly fine with the idea of Bill Murray getting confused about how to open […]

The sex addiction bit I can handle. The potential second coming of Christ plot, though old hat, has been a staple of my reading over the last twenty years (so much so that the worst excesses of my own juvenilia written at sixteen was a second coming […]

Scarlett Johanssen looks as much like the Girl With A Pearl Earring as Nicole Kidman looks like Virginia Woolf. Which is not a huge problem, as the film is much more about her mooning around the house feeling a bit hard done by. Luckily, since she ra[…]

JAY-Z – “Change Clothes”
At first, I was like “cool new Jay-Z!”. Soon after, I was like “COOL new Neptunes!” Then I bought the album and I was like “ehh..” Then I was like “woo boy it&#82[…]

Another day, another curry – benefit of living in Tooting: you are surrounded on all sides by rarely less than interesting curry houses. On Friday night we checked out yet another one (whose name you must remind me to edit into this post tomorr[…]

A little interesting physical phenomenon was brought to my attention by a slashdot post — this article on salvaging the Hubble Space Telescope. It turns out the replacement for the HST will not orbit the earth rather it will orbit the sun at an[…]