So I’m back from the cinema again. A friend and I originally intended to see Dorian Gray (despite the fact that The Picture of Dorian Gray is my favourite book and it shall no doubt have been utterly butchered in its translation to the big screen) but it wasn’t on at either of the Cineworlds […]
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Fearless
I have never been a big fan of spiders. I wouldn’t say that I was ever arachnophobic, especially since I can quite happily catch an errant eight-legged visitor to my flat using a glass and a coaster, before depositing them safely outside, but I just don’t really like them. So it was with a mixture […]
Inspirational Flashes
A single shoe sits in the gutter, sheltering beneath the bumper of a battered VW Polo. The cracked red leather is spotted with splashes of dried mud. A dead spider floats on the stagnant water that pools in the shoe. Whose shoe is it? Why is it in the gutter? How long has it been […]
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream
Twitter went down for a while yesterday. Apparently, it suffered a “denial-of-service attack”. Essentially, too many people were directed to the site at the same time, which stopped those actually wanting to use the site from logging on. I can honestly say that as much as I enjoy using Twitter to pass the time, the […]
Public Enemies
So I went to see Public Enemies last night. I had high hopes; after all, I’ve yet to see a Johnny Depp film I didn’t enjoy (in my universe, the two Pirates sequels don’t exist). Oh, Hollywood, how you continue to let me down. Was it not enough that you buried the Indiana Jones franchise […]
One Word
A couple of months ago, Demi Moore posted a link to a website called One Word. As the title would suggest, you’re given one word and sixty seconds to write something. The aim, much like the very good Write Or Die, is to simply get you writing without much thought about what it is that […]
