Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Absentee Landlord
Six weeks without a computer has left me with huge backlogs in just about every area of my life, and a newfound addiction to playing Solitaire hasn’t helped any with that, so I’m going to abandon this blog for the … Continue reading
Midweek Musings #4
ITEM: Yesterday I didn’t feel like doing anything much, and as that is an eminently attainable life goal I succeeded admirably, not getting out of bed until just after ten, then pottering around for the rest of the day playing … Continue reading
A Day Out – Good and Bad
Yesterday I nipped out to Norwich for the day, to meet an old friend and to catch the latest visit to the Theatre Royal by the wonderful Rambert Dance. There were good and bad things. Good – I picked up a … Continue reading
In Which Billy Goes (In)Zane
A while back, of a Saturday evening, I got a strange hankering to watch some ‘sun, sea and sand’ type movies, by way of marking the passing of the English summer, and after dismissing such usual suspects as Club Dread, … Continue reading
“Child” by Simon Kurt Unsworth
If memory serves, in connection with his novel Pet Sematary, Stephen King used words to the effect that he could imagine nothing worse than having something bad happen to his children. Similar concerns seem a preoccupation of Simon Kurt Unsworth, at … Continue reading
Creature Feature Night
In honour of John Landis’ Monsters in the Movies which, as mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been working my way through, on Saturday night I decided to sit myself down for a ‘creature feature’ double bill of DVDs, and … Continue reading
Thoughts for the Weekend #15
ITEM: So there I am, reading the John Landis coffee table book Monsters in the Movies and suddenly traumatised to discover that director John Carpenter regards black and white classic The Haunting as ‘bullshit! It is so awful.’ More amusing … Continue reading
