The badges of mediocrity
EDIT Okay, that link should be working now. I’ve been using this new Flock browser and it has a fingy where you blog from the browser, obviously the link didn’t go...
21 October 2005
Sharpe’s Sword by Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 0002214105 All the usual Sharpe ingredients are present here: war, women, and treachery. This is the fourth in the series, or at least was the fourth book published. It isn’t...
20 October 2005
Mouth of Flowers
Sun the 16th of Oct was the 115th anniversary of the birth of Michael Collins. And marking this date was the first ever meeting of the Collins 22 Society, which as...
20 October 2005
till it happens in your heart
Dearly Beloved[1] we are gathered here to today to tell Christmas to fuck off. It may sound harsh, Christmas after all, is the season of goodwill, harmony and other lovely-jubbly feelings,...
19 October 2005
where we once belonged by Sia Figiel
ISBN: 0241139295 Set in Samoa where we once belonged is the coming of age story of Alofa, a 13 year old girl growing up in the village of Malaefou. I wrote...
19 October 2005
Troy [based on book] by Homer dir. by Wolfgang Peterson
based on poem by Homer So the Iliad up on the big screen. The most expensive film ever made. Bound to be rubbish right? Well it isn’t great, but it is...
19 October 2005
Darkness was upon the face of the days
Do you ever wonder where exactly you should start your post? English classes and essay writing told me that my first sentence should be gripping, but does that also apply to...
18 October 2005
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Moist Von Lipwig has just become Postmaster General, even escaped death to do so, the only problem is that the Post Office is more than a little run down. And full...
16 October 2005
Night Watch [based on book] by Sergey Lukyanenko dir. by Timur Bekmambetov
A thousand years ago an agreement was reached, the Light and the Dark negotiated a truce in order to prevent their mutual destruction. Each side ensures the other obeys the rules. The Night Watch are “the good guys” preventing the Dark from breaking the truce. But legend tells of the arrival of a “Great One” who will choose a side, and that side will become unstoppable.
Based on a trilogy of Russian books(by Sergei Lukyanenko) Nochnoy dozor is the first in a series of three books, and for the most part deals with Anton. Born human, he was one of the few able to see, and so become, one of the Others. Each new arrival must choose a side, Light or Dark, he chooses Light, and the film opens with him tracking down a vampire.
15 October 2005
Lucky by Alice Sebold
ISBN: 033041836x At its most basic this book can be classified as a rape memoir, and why would anyone want to read anything like that? Not for entertainment, thats certain. Lucky...
14 October 2005
Where are you going, with your fetlock blowing
Almost forgot to say that I’m off home for the weekend, so I’ll be offline till Sun/Mon. And I did have something else to say, but I’ve just had to go...
14 October 2005
No More I Love You
Good thing I was fairly accepting of our not going to Germany before hand wasn’t it? We didn’t lose. So I suppose it wasn’t a total disaster. But in reality it...
13 October 2005
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