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I seem to be finding myself oddly without much to say at the moment. The Guardian Online, usually a source of some sort of response from my grey matter, is just dull and boring at the moment, with idiotic writing about fluff like how to cope with email. I can answer that problem in one […]

I don’t want to write a review about Donnie Darko. It wouldn’t do it justice. It would be just too linear. Too done before. Instead I want to just enthuse. Jake Gyllenhaal, despite a dyslexic's nightmare, is amazing as the eponymous Donnie. There are times, as he gazes up through his eyelashes, half grin on […]

Been spending a lot of time, possibly too much, on Zoetrope lately, mainly on the message board. Makes me feel more involved in this whole screenwriting thing to be talking to other screenwriters. Course, it's also mildly amusing to watch them ripping each other's throats out. Why is it that internet communities invariably suffer from […]

There is a Rule. A new Rule. And that Rule is: Do not read Neil Gaiman's work when you're trying to cook. Coraline may look like a slim volume. A children's book, it may seem like light fayre for the seasoned reader. The scrawled signature inside makes you think that perhaps this book was at […]

…but tiredness. Sleep is my refuge at the moment, my escape. I had some wonderful dreams last night, wherein my life was just fine and dandy, people appreciated me for who I was, and I didn't get hassled by anyone. Although I did have some problems with clothespegs at one point, but that was a […]

Adam Ant was one of the first pop stars I was aware of, and certainly the first I mimicked, the first one I wanted to be like. He was the object of one of my first crushes, along with Terry Hall of The Specials. I think it was the cheekbones, to be honest, and the […]

I was looking today for information on the London Underground, specifically, good hard statistics that might be useful to someone thinking about potential solutions to the perennial issue of the whole system heating up to near boiling point every time the outside temperature rises above 5. Kelvin. Instead I found a fragment of a rather […]