What is it good for?
So someone posted about the bad writing in The Historian, and the Grumpy Old Bookman linked and now, boy and girls, it is all out WAR! Just take a browse through...
23 January 2006
You’re a liar and a thief…. Murderer!
ETA: pix added *disclaimer* Peoples, by reading this post you all agree to not prosecute[1] and never breathe a word to The Law. It seems I am an accessory to a...
23 January 2006
But the God I don’t believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He’s not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be
I’m away at the moment. But before I went I did a book quiz. Turns out I’m a gorram genius book You’re Catch-22! by Joseph Heller Incredibly witty and funny, you...
21 January 2006
I heard her voice come crashing in the waves that broke all round for miles and miles
So you might be aware that I recently bought Declan O’Rourke’s album Since Kyabram, and there is one song in particular that I really like. It is called Marrying the Sea....
20 January 2006
I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
So I’ve not been as verbose as usual for two reasons. Issue the first: work. Now that we’ve got the catalogue & circulation up and running there is a lot of...
20 January 2006
According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349114471 This novel may possibly have had a greater impact on me if I knew anything about the life and times of Samuel Johnson apart from the fact that he...
19 January 2006
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
NM called round yesterday. We were supposed to be kino-ing, either to see Jarhead or Breakfast on Pluto only when we got to the cinema there were huge queues, the place...
19 January 2006
The cloud has fundamentally altered our DNA
I’ve been tagged by weenie; Four Jobs You’ve Had In Your Life Started off my working life as a baby-sitter. Worked in Abrakebabra the year I left school. After college I...
16 January 2006
When I said that you are like a stream of bat’s piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark
Do you know whats a lovely sight to greet your eyes as you leave your abode upon a Sunday afternoon? Three fellas pissing against the courthouse. Not even 5 o’clock on...
16 January 2006
The Exorcism of Emily Rose dir. by Scott Derrickson
Based on a true story The Exorcism of Emily Rose deals with the death of Emily Rose. Doctors said she was suffering from psychotic-epilepsy, her priest said it was possession. And...
16 January 2006
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
In other news, NM and I headed to Belfast yesterday to see copper-copper. Haven’t seen her in ages so was good to catch up. First time in Belfast, or at least...
15 January 2006