TT#13
Thirteen Books I own, but that are still waiting for me to read. Memory and Dreams by Charles De Lint. I’m thinking I’ll add this to my Once Upon a Time...
19 April 2007
Once dir. by John Carney
A busker and a Bis Issue seller meet on the streets of Dublin. He also repairs hoovers, which is handy, as she has a problem with hers.[1] He fixes it. She...
17 April 2007
Seriously
. Of course bloggers are blogging about it, but I’m not going to. It’d be pointless. Instead let us turn to a more light and frothy part of life. An antidote...
17 April 2007
A complaint
This is not news. It isn’t even fake news. If it was a parrot John Cleese would be here trying to get a refund. Actually, he’d never have bought it in...
16 April 2007
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
ISBN: 0586087494 See also: Scriptorium ; Ted’s Thoughts Not everyone knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw with my spade; but first it is better to speak of...
15 April 2007
Jason Donovan and Russell Crowe!
How could I not have been intrigued[1] by that mix when I saw those names flash up on the screen. I had been flicking while the dinner was on and seeing...
12 April 2007
Fire up the Quattro
Leaving the apt yesterday evening I noticed a fire engine down the road. And getting a bit closer I spotted the fact that the firemen[1] had the hose out and were...
11 April 2007
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
by Neil Gaiman
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual although even he never knew the whole of it.
When Tristran Thorn heads off into Faerie to find a star he has no idea of what is about to happen. All he cares is that the beautiful Victoria has promised that she will grant whatever he wishes if he brings the star that she saw fall.
10 April 2007
TT #11
Because April is America’s National Poetry Month I thought I may as well celebrate this furrin-type event by listing 13 poems from either the The Rattle Bag or from Soundings, anthologies...
5 April 2007
TMNT dir. by Kevin Munroe
Come on now, who doesn’t love the “heroes in a half-shell”? The main reason I went to see this was that is was on at the right time, and of course...
4 April 2007
The Illusionist [based on the short story] by Steven Millhauser dir. by Neil Burger
In Austria at the turn of the 20th century a young carpenter’s son falls in love with a girl from the local nobility. Obviously her family are not impressed by this...
4 April 2007
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