Excellent ludicrous photo from the weekend, taken & edited by Neonwombat.

And now a rare video blogging moment, in which our intrepid hero visits Deepest Reading…

An overwhelmingly happy-making aspect of living in this city is the access I get to performances by bands, comedians, musicians, authors, and other inspirational creators who make it their hub and their home.  And for me, one of the foremost among these is — I say without hyperbole — Daniel Kitson.  To call him a comedian seems a bit limiting, although comedy is the attitude for which he’s most known.  I guess I’d broadly categorise what Kitson does into 3 areas:
1) Comedy, standup & short stories
2) Comic shows exploring an …

I emailed this to a few people recently, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t go unblogged…
One of my learned contemporaries is a chap by the name of Pete.  He lives in New York and goes by the moniker “Spiro” occasionally, or professionally/academically since being awarded his Ph.D. he’s become “Doctor Love”.  Here’s a picture:

Over the years Spiro’s professed a certain antipathy towards the dramatic arts (with the exception of his world-acclaimed performance in HMS Pinafore at Linden Park Primary School).
Early in July when I went into London’s glittering West End …

There’s a big difference between saying something amusing in response to a circumstance, and having a stock phrase or line to trot out whenever a certain thing happens (typically accompanied by a broad smile).  Personally, I’m absolutely shocking when it comes to the latter, but luckily if one circulates around enough hopefully to enough people the latter will seem like the former.
An example of this was the other day when I was tapping away on Facebook chat to a friend and they said “[X] has happened, and now I’m really …