Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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The sound of a pin dropping…

Okay, for the last couple of weeks I've been as quiet as Marcel Marceau and prolific as Peter Gabriel. I have reasons for this. I always have reasons.The main one is that Clare, her wonderful 4 year-old daughter Lily, Kiki the family Kat and your's truly are moving to a stylish newbuild apartment this weekend. Or maybe it's a flat. I'm not affiliated with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors so can't tell the difference between the two. I've got a hunch that 'flat' and 'apartment' are pretty much interchangeable. The latter is probably a rebranding of the former designed [...]

444 Club on Friday

For the benefit of all those Birmingham-based, gig-going, uplifting gormandizers out there (Heyyy now, Daddy-O...), The Courtesy Group - Al Hutchins' awesome band of Scrotnig noizemeisters who've been mentioned here on many an occasion - are supporting London-based up-and-comers XX Teens at The Rainbow in Digbeth tomorrow evening. XX Teens sound like a lot of fun - plus I'd like to see the mighty CG playing a non-Curate's Egg event - so I'll endeavour to get my pert wee Irish arse there. I think you should, too. It's one of Kamikaze Events' 444 Club nights, in which new acts share [...]

Be Seeing You

I almost forgot to mention... after leaving Hafod Elwy Hall in Denbighshire last Sunday, Clare and I embarked on a Keruoac-lite drive around North Wales. We headed west along the A5 and through Betws-y-Coed (or, as my brother prefers to call it, "Betsy Cohen") before veering off in a random direction to see where the Road would take us.Well, it took us past Moel Siabod and Snowdon and through some of the most rugged and gorgeous landscapes I've seen in quite some time. We stopped at a few places, took quite a few photos and ended up in Portmeirion. As [...]

Our Weekend in Wales

Clare & I spent last weekend in North Wales. On Saturday we went for a ten mile walk around the Alwen Reservoir and surrounding hills, woods and countryside. My legs have since recovered.This first pic was taken just around the corner from the gorgeous Hafod Elwy Hall, where we stayed.And here's the Alwen Reservoir:And here I am at Denbigh Castle:Don't worry, I won't make a habit of this...

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