Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Absentee Landlord

Posted on November 18, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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Here I Go, And I Don’t Know Why

Posted on November 17, 2011 by petertennant

So, female singers. There’s Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kylie, Cheryl Cole and a gazillion others, and with most of them it has more to do with the packaging than the sound. I like to look at them, but I don’t believe … Continue reading →

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Midweek Musings #4

Posted on November 16, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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‘B’ Movies

Posted on November 14, 2011 by petertennant

Every year in the run up to Halloween, the good people at Poundland cram their shelves with horror DVDs that nobody else wants and wait for the gullible to come along and buy them under the impression they’re getting a bargain. Here’s … Continue reading →

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A Day Out – Good and Bad

Posted on November 12, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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In Remembrance

Posted on November 11, 2011 by petertennant
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In Which Billy Goes (In)Zane

Posted on November 10, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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“Child” by Simon Kurt Unsworth

Posted on November 8, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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Creature Feature Night

Posted on November 7, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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Thoughts for the Weekend #15

Posted on November 5, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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