If you're a middling-successful British TV actor, you can rate your success by seeing how many of the following you've appeared in as a guest star ( Read more... )

Looks like LJ is a lot emptier these days. I don't even have the excuse of being on Face"MadeIntoAHollywoodMovie"book for my distinct lack of posting.

Despite it being "the most important General Election since time immemorial" I cannot help but be underwhelmed by it. Living in the constituency predicted to be the safest Conservative seat in the UK doesn't help, although there I'm continuing the family tradition of being a leftie in a true blue area. However, it's the essential similarity of the ( Read more... )

Today's Metro paper had one of those classic puff pieces for selling you things that they've been bribed to promote by various PRs. The subject? "Greet the coming of spring by turning over a new leaf by cycling to work on one of these splendid contraptions." So what did they pick? I'd have gone for a tourer or hybrid. Maybe they'll put a folder ( Read more... )

Everyone's favourite former Daily Mirror editor and sycophant to the rich and famous, Piers Morgan, has revealed himself to be a more radical critic of modern capitalism than I'd previously thought.( Read more )

I don't do a huge amount of cycling in London, and that which I do do is mostly out in the 'burbs and beyond. However, I do work in Islington and go through/visit the centre often, and here's my update on the latest trends in more-money-than-sense* London cyclery ( Read more... )

I've just been standing in a queue at the grocers next door to work: in front of me in the queue was... The Actor Kevin Eldon!!!!!!!!!!!! This beats almost walking into the Kinnocks by a long shot.

Recursived (issuing book to member of academic staff): "And appropriately, Aristotle's Metaphysics is due back after Aristotle's Physics."

Via Crooked Timber, it's:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!

Will the first line be something like:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (who can kick zombie ass!)Surely there must be other Literary Classics that can be improved upon with the addition of zombies (or ( Read more... )

1. Huzzah for the recession! [Provided it means fewer maniacally-driven vans on the roads: I was almost run over by two in quick succession on my walk down to the train station yesterday ( Read more... )