"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." - Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Great fun evening with stevegreen and emma_emily, my lovely wife and an indian takeaway. Emma was a last minute, but very welcome addition. We sat around and chatted, eventually ordered our food, had more good conversation over dinner, and watched some shorts that Steve had brought round. One was very short (in more ways than one), but sweet, while the other was ( Read more... )

This last weekend we used to celebrate my wife's 40th birthday. You wouldn't believe it to look at her. We had from Wednesday off work and began a protracted celebrations process.

Little SecretThe trip to the jewellery quarter to buy or order a ring for Liz had been planned for Wednesday, her actual birthday. However, we found ourselves out in ( Read more... )

( The Wire - no spoilers )

The trailer for Watchmen is finally up on the web. I can't help but get a little excited.

( Trailer Discussion. No spoilers for original story. )

Great Airplane Stories -

1) Air Force OneThis is absolute rubbish - Harrison Ford is the ex-Air Force tough, now leader of the Free World, whose private airplane is taken over by terrorists, led by Gary Oldman attempting a possible Russian/East-European accent ( Read more... )

This weekend we were invited round to dunkdunkdunk's house for an evening of Rock Band, wine, beer and fun. Also present was rillaith. There follows my review of the game itself!

( Rock Band )

Somehow, I've managed to get round to seeing a few of the films I wanted (for some reason) to see, recently. Quite often Liz and I don't get a chance to watch movies before they've come to DVD or Film-On-Demand ( Read more... )

So last week I saw the new Indiana Jones movie. Intuitively grasping that it probably wasn't the wife's kettle of fish, I organised to see the film with some friends from work (and someone I used to work with). No spoilers, so worry not, but overall - for the first ten minutes I was unsure whether it had jumped the shark, then I settled in and by ( Read more... )

Last night I cruised the TV schedules and discovered, with delight, that the first semi-final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest was showing on BBC Three at 8 PM (the second semi-final is on this Thursday, fact fans!). So once Liz and I had finished dinner I revealed this surprise to her and we had a very enjoyable hour laughing our asses off at ( Read more... )