My Top 10 Films of 2007
Tom LennonI started putting together a list of my Top Ten films over Christmas – around about the time I did my list of […]
Plugging my friends #1: Pete Ashton
Tom LennonMy good friend Pete Ashton’s excellent Created in Birmingham weblog has been named joint winner in the ‘Independent […]
Can we call him Al?
Tom LennonI received the following text message from my good friend and erstwhile comics collaborator Phil Walsh at 7.11am on 28th January 2008:
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I found a pair of old Docs…
Tom LennonI watched a couple of vintage documentaries about two of my favourite writers on Ye Olde Interwebs this week […]
Heath Ledger 1979-2008
Tom LennonI heard about Heath Ledger’s death just before I went to bed last night and it floored me. Sad, sad news. This was […]
James Joyce’s Digbethers
Tom LennonThe great Irish writer James Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle briefly lived in Birmingham's Digbeth area, apparently.
Neologism: Generation X-Wing
Tom LennonGeneration X-Wing noun A generation of people born between the mid 1960s and the mid 1970s who’s […]
Blurt at the Curate’s Egg this Thursday
Tom LennonFor the benefit of those who live in and around Birmingham, Al Hutchins and the Courtesy Group are hosting a Curate’s Egg night with […]
Strange New Words Revisited
Tom LennonI’m into neologisms in a big way. When I get bored, I make up new words. I got bored today, so I […]
When Mr Bill came to Birmingham
Tom LennonMy workpal Kuz has a second job working weekends on the front desk of the 4-star Marriott Hotel in Birmingham’s city centre. […]
Hail to The King, Baby
Tom LennonHip-shakin’ shoutin’ in gold lamé
That’s how he earned his regal sobriquet
But he threw it all away
For a porcelain monkey[…]
"No Soup for You!"
Tom LennonOne of my favourite Christmas presents this year was the Season 7 DVD box set of the classic 90s American comedy series […]