Avast, Me Hearties! Arrrrrrr!

Arrrrr! I might have missed “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” last week (I WILL remember next year, although I’ve been telling myself that since it started) but, by way of compensation, today I discovered that you can get Facebook to talk like a pirate too. So now I’m all about the treasure and the [...]

Dream Myself Alive

Do you ever get to the point where you’re so tired that you don’t even have the energy to go to bed?
That’s me, right now. Sitting on the sofa. I want a drink, I need to turn off the TV, my feet are cold, I have chocolate on my fingers from the pain au chocolat [...]

Worlds Colliding

A drive-by post as I’m supposed to be working…
I just watched actor Dominic West and David Simon, the creator of The Wire, chatting to BBC Breakfast News about the show, each of them expressing amazement at the fact that after five seasons the series has finally become a ‘cult’ hit thanks to word of mouth.The [...]

Genius in song form

Link: Battlestar Galactica like you’ve never heard it before.

Phew!

Michael Palin For Vice-President!

Look how PERFECT he’d be! www.michaelpalinforpresident.com

Samebrainity! (Or should that be “sametrainity”?)

I was re-reading Neil Gaiman’s wonderful American Gods on the train home from work tonight when I noticed the woman sitting in front in me was reading American Gods, too.
“Snap!” I said, making her jump, and then she saw the book I was waving at her and laughed.
“What do you think of it?” she asked.
“It’s [...]

Did You Know That The Goblin King Is Living In My Ear?

This time last year I was confined to my flat in what would end up becoming a three-month stint of seclusion while I waited for my spinal surgery.
Almost a year on, yesterday I found myself going for a soggy walk along the River Thames during a terrible rainstorm… just because I could.
Today I decided to [...]

I’m Not Quite Here Yet, But Have Some Photos Of George In The Meantime

I’m still struggling to find the time to blog properly, but I promise I’ll write a lovely long post at the weekend. No, really, I will. Honest. Stop looking at me like that.
At the moment I’m recovering from my first day of working on Times Higher Education (I’m there for two more weeks and it [...]