Temeraire by Naomi Novik
ISBN: 0007219113 Book #1 of the Temeraire series, aka His Majesty’s Dragon. See also: Naomi Novik’s site; Library Thing William Laurence is Captain of the Reliant, an English ship, fighting the...
20 August 2006
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
ISBN: 0099416271 Wikipedia on Michelangelo; Michelangelo.com; Art of Florence Read with Historical Favorites – group site This is a big book; over 750 pages of small print and crowded pages. So...
20 August 2006
Nacho Libre dir. by Jared Hess
If you’ve seen the trailers for this film you’ll pretty much know exactly what to expect. Jack Black dancing about in stretchy pants and a Mexican wrestler’s mask. And that is...
17 August 2006
He’s hearing the voice of God through a crossword puzzle!
After my ever-so-boring afternoon at work I headed off to browse through book shops yesterday evening. And damn you Waterstones with your three for twos, and your half price books. I...
17 August 2006
Lady in the Water dir. by M. Night Shyamalan
This is an odd film. A very odd film.
Ever since The Sixth Sense Shyamalan has been known as the “twist guy” for his film endings; I don’t think that is a fair description. And while you can say that Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all had twists to their endings, the twists weren’t all that important. The films were stories about people, truth, and finding out who you are. The Lady in the water continues in this vein, but at the same time it is a very different type of film. As Shyamalan has said, it is a bedtime story. A fairy tale, for children. So it is, of course, going to be more simplistic and yet at the same time it is more complicated than that.
17 August 2006
It is essential to master the use of the 1st person post-indicative whereby you can refer to a person without using their name
What is it about accents that makes them so difficult to fake[1] As I was walking home yesterday I noticed that the kino had a huge amount of posters up for...
16 August 2006
I’m an English teacher, not fucking Tomb Raider
It’s strange, the things you see on television. And I don’t mean on that home of the weird and exploited, C4, but on your mainstream, prime time telly. Last night we...
15 August 2006
te, tes, tir; shis, shims, shim, shimself; zie, zees, zim, zeeself
It has been quite a while since I’ve done any of these pointless quizes, hasn’t it? So any here you go: You scored as Either. You brain is neither specifically male,...
14 August 2006
The Squad by T. Ryle Dwyer
Michael Collins is frequently cited as the originator of modern urban terrorism. The British characterised his Squad as ‘the murder gang’ and had they knowingly captured members of of the Squad they would almost certainly have exectued them.
Irish history is full of revolutionaries and failed rebellions, of informers giving information to the English, and spies infiltrating Irish organisations. Michael Collins recognised the importance of the intelligence network and so in 1919 he formulated a plan to blind the eyes of Dublin Castle by ensuring that the police force were as terrorised and demoralised as possible.
14 August 2006
Red Sky at night, good day tomorrow
So y’all know that there was this European athletics competition on over the past few days right? And that we actually had medal hopes on this occasion. Normally if Sonia aint...
14 August 2006
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