Dancing in the Dark
Tom LennonI should be watching Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park tonight.
As I may have mentioned previously, I tried to buy a pair of tickets on the […]
Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight
Tom LennonWe have heard the chimes at midnight…
– Shakespeare, Henry IV
For as long as I remember, Orson Welles’ 1965 film Chimes at Midnight […]
John Dillinger Died For You
Tom Lennon
Seventy-five years ago today, the notorious American outlaw John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents as he was leaving the Biograph […]
BSG R.I.P.
Tom LennonWell, that’s it then…
I’ve just watched the final episode of the mighty Battlestar Galactica. I’m probably one of the last of the show’s legion […]
(Nothing But) Flowers
Tom LennonLast December I was driving past the former Matthew Boulton College building on Sherlock Street in Birmingham as it was being demolished. […]
The Citroën Dali
Tom Lennon“Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole”
– The Modern Lovers
Last Thursday evening we were driving home from Wales. Clare was sitting […]
Nathan Fillion is the Green Lantern
Tom LennonWell, no, he isn’t really – and he probably won’t be, either – but we all know in our hearts that he should […]
Hagbard Celine and the MPs’ Expenses Scandal
Tom LennonAs an antidote to the relentless cavalcade of hubris, hypocrisy and moral indignation stoked up by the cataclysmic faeces-to-fan proximity problem that’s known locally as […]
Bocca Grande Normalis
Tom LennonI know that this will involve me stepping out of my made-to-measure comfort zone of pop culture, obscure literary references and knob gags, but I […]
