Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 014014305X I really enjoyed this book, an entertaining and humorous look at the origins of the English language, its various dialects and the roles other languages have played in giving...
26 April 2004
Kill Bill vol 2 dir. by Quentin Tarantino
Bang bang, my baby shot me down You know there isn’t really all that much for me to say about this film. Did I enjoy it? Yes, but it isn’t great,...
25 April 2004
More from Jo
“Wars eat your youth. When I was in college we made a census, boys and girls. There were about half girls and half boys but now there are maybe ten times...
23 April 2004
Isn’t work weird?
Isn’t it strange what you come across in the course of a day? There I was doing the ILLs when I saw an intriging article title before me: “Vacum Cleaner Injury...
20 April 2004
Hidalgo dir. by Joe Johnston
Frank Hopkins sets out to the Middle East to compete in a long distance race, 3,000 miles across the desert. Racing against the finest Arabian horses on his mustang Hidalgo, in...
20 April 2004
Red Mist by Conor O'Callaghan
Full title Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil war. A fan’s story ISBN: 0747570140 See also: LibraryThing ; Roy’s stats from Man U ; Guardian article written during Saipan...
17 April 2004
The Borrible Trilogy by Michael de Larrabeiti
ISBN: 0330490850 Borribles are small, looking like children apart from the fact that they have pointed ears, but they may be hundreds of years old, for they can live forever, unless...
14 April 2004
Mic Christopher
Lately I have been mainly listening to Mic Christopher. I first heard of him on Glen hansard’s show of Other Voices: songs from a room, but I wasn’t really paying too...
13 April 2004
Computer Stupidities
Oh I love this site. Loads of their stories make quite a lot of sense, from a certain perspective. Seriously funny though: “I work for the internal tech support of a...
4 April 2004
Wolf Control
On November 4, 2003, the Alaska Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game decided to reinstitute aircraft-assisted killing as a method of suppressing wolf populations at artificially low levels...
4 April 2004
Real life Vampire Slayers…
” Buffy, Willow and Faith have nothing on Toma Petre’s relatives. The undead-dispatching heroines of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” never did anything like pull a body out of a grave, tear...
31 March 2004
Referrals…
Took a glance at who has been visiting the site, and surprisingly a large number of seraches that lead to here seem to be “what is the triple crown” so just...
30 March 2004