That’s a comment on the weather, not my state of mind.  Anyway, the afformentioned heatwave has forced me to move inside this lunchtime, where it is also hot, but not in that ‘my-face-is-melting’ kind of way.
Managed to turn not a lot of money into a session of extreme drunkenness on Saturday, which then alas turned [...]

Now that the dreaded Big Brother is back on our screens, it appears that I will have a new regular blogging time, since it is my yearly task to avoid all contact with the pestilence brought about by Endemol and Channel 4.
One of the great things about the current election fervor is the fact that [...]

Also wanted to mention that last night I finally got around to watching the excellent Hollywoodland, which I heartily recommend to all and sundry.  I’ve been a fan of Affleck since Dazed and Confused, and his early career was chock full of excellent performances.  Then he went into autopilot for a few years, going after [...]

Firstly, words can’t describe how excited I am about about Oliver Stone’s forthcoming ‘W,’ which now has the above poster image.  I know it’s going to be shamelessly partisan, but so were JFK and Nixon, and they both turned out pretty good.  Stone knows better than any other director how to push a good liberal’s buttons, and [...]

One of the best things about my new job is when the one hour lunch break combines with the rather splendid weather that we’re having.  Add in a dash of open fields like the ones we have round the back of the office, and you have all the ingredients for a rather splendid lunch hour, [...]