Oct
31
Early Start
October 31, 2004 | Comments Off
Tomorrow that is - I have to be up at 3.45 in order to get ready and out of the flat in time to check in for a flight leaving Heathrow at 6.45. How much am I looking forward to that?
Not at all, basically.
Back on Wednesday.
Oct
31
The Grudge
October 31, 2004 | Comments Off
Been to see a Halloween preview of The Grudge, the ‘American’ remake of the Japanese original, this evening. I put ‘American’ in inverted commas because it’s actually made in Japan by the original Japanese director, just with a primarily English-speaking cast (Sarah-Michelle Gellar, Ted Raimi, Bill Pullman among them).
It’s a very effective creepy film, […]
Oct
29
Ah - Politics
October 29, 2004 | Comments Off
I’m not sure what was giving me the most entertainment value yesterday.
It could have been Robert Kilroy-Silk resigning the UKIP whip after that glorious moment when he had his microphone turned off in the Parliament (and I see he’s now predicting doom for the ‘party’ if they expel him).
Or it might have been the aftermath […]
Oct
29
John Peel
October 29, 2004 | 3 Comments
Well, much as I think that Home Truths is as maudlin and unnecessarily sentimental a piece of tosh as any that’s ever cluttered the Radio 4 wavelength, I’ll join the general chorus of approval for John Peel’s body of other work while mourning his passing.
But come on - at the end of the day, he […]
Oct
26
No Sex Please…
October 26, 2004 | Comments Off
Listening to Radio 4’s Thought For The Day this morning (yes, I know I have no one to blame but myself), I heard someone going on about the fact that Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs has been passed for cinema release uncut despite containing lengthy scenes of real sex. Unfortunately, the BBFC spokesperson quoted seems […]
Oct
20
It’s a word!
Well, it’s not really, but National Novel Writing Month looms.
50,000 words in 30 days - it’s all about the speed and discipline of getting the words out:
“Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared […]
Oct
20
This is getting unreal - four days after I got back from San Francisco, and having slept well every night since, I’m completely shattered. I’m sitting here now yawning, and could actually go to sleep right now if the opportunity presented itself. I can only chalk it up to jetlag, but I’ve *never* […]
Oct
18
No Fags Please, We’re Anglicans
October 18, 2004 | 2 Comments
I heard on the radio this morning, and now it’s been confirmed, that the Anglican Church’s Lambeth Commission, which was commissioned to explore the vexed (it says here) question of homosexual ministers, is to ask the US church which invested Gene Robinson as a bishop to apologise for the hurt they’ve caused the church. […]
Oct
18
Back
October 18, 2004 | Comments Off
Well, after a somewhat delayed flight which left me wiped out on Saturday (to the point where I couldn’t even move towards the night out at Owen and Tammy’s, at which Cath and Gareth were in attendance). So we missed all that (as well as baby David), but honestly, if I’d tried driving while […]
Oct
15
‘Frisco
October 15, 2004 | Comments Off
Well, it’s been an interesting and productive week - I’ve done everything I wanted to get done and established some very positive working relationships.
I had a get-together with some of the local Millarworlders on Wednesday night, in the only comic store I’ve ever been to that provides alcohol, which is Isotope. That was a […]