It appears that Paris Hilton objected to her image being used in a John McCain Campaign Ad. “Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment,” said an official statement…
Category: General Blog
These are my normal blog posts.
I have just finished The Patron Saint of Plagues, a novel by Barth Anderson. Absolutely wonderful page-turner, a kind of futuristic medical techno-thriller, with touches of cyberpunk.
It’s been a while since I wrote about the garden, and things have moved along a bit – some good, some bad. The brassicas suffered terribly this year from the Cabbage White butterfly. Being a novice gardener, I had no idea the effect their caterpillars…
When electric/hybrid cars first started appearing, I said they would have to make them artificially noisy, so they wouldn’t increase the chance of road accidents. Seems Lotus agrees with me: The Independent: Introducing the hybrid you can hear “Lotus is developing technology that will put…
A couple of years ago, I used to go to The Acoustic Sessions, a monthly acoustic music club in nearby Barnack. Unfortunately, not many other local folk I know seemed interested in going along, and after a while, you get fed up of going on…
Unfortunately, this part of the trip wasn’t as successful as the movie. It turned out that Birmingham’s Science Museum is a lot more kiddie oriented than I expected, and young kiddie at that – I’d say in the 8-10 year old range. As such, there…
There’s not a lot I can say about this, that others haven’t already said. This was a Batman movie pretty much grounded in a real world Gotham City, in my opinion, unlike the fantasies that have gone before. Heath Ledger did steal the film, but…
At the showing of The Dark Knight, they played a trailer for Watchmen, due to be released next year. It looked utterly gorgeous, expecially on Imax. Visuals were spot on perfect, as far as I could see – it was as if the pages from…
Have just booked tickets to see The Dark Knight at IMAX in Thinktank, Birmingham. I’m not working on Friday, so I have got a ticket for their midday Planetarium show, then the afternoon looking round the science museum, and some 5-storey-high Batman in the early…
I usually have two holidays a year – one for me alone, and another one where I take my mum away for a week. This year, I seem to have skipped my solo holiday – I will probably end up spending it in the garden,…