Stephen Fry’s Top Tip for a Great Life
…and he’s not wrong.
August 30, 2011 | Posted in vids | Read More »
Vladimir PUTIN Do you want to save the EU or should I?
Barack OBAMA Go ahead, I can\'t afford it
Archive for: August, 2011
Super 8
I caught this as a ‘last chance’ screening at a local Vue. Normally, working at TV Centre, I’m a Westfield man, but I was so late catching Super 8 that the only evening screening available was at Park Royal. Westfield is an all-digital cinema, but Park Royal’s smaller screens are still rolling prints, so I watched Super 8 the old fashioned way, [...]
August 27, 2011 | Posted in Film | Read More »
Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind
To prove how tightly my finger’s pressed on the literary pulse, here’s a book that hit big a decade ago and that might still have passed me by had my wife not persisted in throwing it in my face every couple of months – “just read it!” she’d moan, wafting my frowning face with the fragrant pages, the [...]
August 24, 2011 | Posted in Books | Read More »
Don’t blame it on the sunshine…
I don’t know, I leave the country for two weeks and society effectively disintegrates. I’ve just spent the day scanning through the media’s riot coverage and it doesn’t make for pretty reading. Have-a-go-heroes bludgeoned to death, hundreds of small businesses ransacked, arsonists forcing folk to leap from their burning bedroom windows, police containing when they should be engaging or vice [...]
August 23, 2011 | Posted in News | Read More »
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