More PKD on the Radio…
To elaborate on that previous post (which, truth be told, I knocked out in a bit of a rush):
The Today programme’s Jim […]
Philip K. David Davis
Former shadow home secretary David Davis was just on Radio 4’s Today programme. He was discussing the role of police crowd control following the […]
Yesterday was Record Store Day
I popped into Birmingham music emporium Swordfish Records yesterday in order to fulfil my obligatory Record Store Day obligation. As this blog is […]
This is Record Store Day
Which, in case you don’t know, “is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the […]
James Joyce’s Birmingham: Ulysses on the Buses
Stateless, scrawny James Joyce and his mistressmusewife, Nora Barnacle, were waiting for a number eleven omnibus in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham. It was […]
April Fools
When I was a student at Hull University, lo those many years ago, I was involved in a cruel and unusual April Fools prank that […]
Read Yourself RAW
I’m currently re-reading – for the umpteenth time, I might add – the great (and, sadly, late) Robert Anton Wilson’s first […]
My Movie Alphabet
Here’s something fairly inconsequential for you.
This is a meme I saw on Rol’s blog late last year. […]
Today… is… International Talk Like William Shatner Day
So declareth Maurice LaMarche – the voice talent behind such animated greats as ‘The Brain’ from Pinky and the Brain and the […]
Oxford, Cambridge and Hull
We arrived back home from Hull the other week safe and sound and ever-so-slightly knackered. Or at least I was. Knackered, that is. […]
The Destroyers
As yesterday was St Pat’s day I spent the evening visiting my Mum. While I was there I caught up with my brother, Rob, […]