Inspired by a conversation on Twitter between me, @mooley, and peripherally @neonwombat, here’s a list of my top ten books. I’ll qualify this by stating that I wrote this list whilst not in front of my bookshelf, or with any
And oh, how we danced… the little children of Stonehenge.
Olympic Way was abuzz in nerdy expectation & excitement last Tuesday night as Housemate James & I approached former swimming pool Wembley Arena: mock-rock gods Spinal Tap were playing the UK gig on their single-date world tour. The fans were
Enjoying your summer?
All I’m saying is, you wouldn’t want to move here if you were bothered by a little bit of rain, would you? In other news, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and others will
Someday my plinth will come
So today marked the beginning of Antony Gormley’s “performance piece” on the empty plinth on Trafalgar Square. The idea is that for the next 100 days anyone can apply for a 1 hour spot to mount the plinth – a
Keeping busy
Hmm, been doing a bit much waving around of opinions & reminiscing, and not enough recounting of what in the Dickens I’ve been up to lately, so here’s a roundup (in reverse chronological order). 29th : Night of 400 Billion
Twitter kryptonite discovered last night: luckily Kevin Spacey saved the day. Apparently.
Amid last night’s Michael Jackson news festival, a rumour popped up on Twitter that Jeff Goldblum had also died. Upon getting home I thought it a good idea to follow this up, and clicked on the link. Now, because of
Trainwreck journalism
My Google Reader account has 360 newsfeeds in it. As such, I’ve totally stopped reading the freesheet newspapers that are provided around the London Underground – the Metro, the London Lite, and The London Paper. Y’know… reading them hardly seems
I’m sure I’d be a lot more excited if I wasn’t under such heavy sedation
(Obviously, altered to look more like an MP receipt to make it appear topical…) I believe the vernacular phrase for this sort of thing is: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Knackers! I knew I’d forget something!
It hardly seems relevant now, but that’s never stopped me in the past – one of the key elements I totally forgot to refer to in the Arcade Gaming story was the 3-letter-nicknames thing! As with most computer games, arcade
Trouser-related crankiness
Ordinarily I wouldn’t bitch about fashion availability, but this concerns the potential purchase of a pair of Awesome Trousers. My life’s goal is the acquisition of Awesome Trousers. I can’t seem to back this claim up with readily available photographs,