Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.
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Can we call him Al?
I received the following text message from my good friend and erstwhile comics collaborator Phil Walsh at 7.11am on 28th January 2008:3.38am. Weighing in at 7.7. Alfred John Vincent Walsh was hurled into our plane of existence by emergency C-section after fifteen of the most terrifying minutes of my life. Beth and our son are both well, in the pink in fact, and resting comfortably. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. I'm going for a long lie down now, good night.Congratulations to Phil and Beth - this was great news to wake up to! I know you'll both [...]
I found a pair of old Docs…
I watched a couple of vintage documentaries about two of my favourite writers on Ye Olde Interwebs this week that I haven't seen for bloody years. I guess it says a lot about my particular strain of temperament that [a] I can get genuinely excited about watching vintage documentaries I haven't seen in bloody years and, [b] I never previously thought of checking the likes of YouTube or GoogleVideo for hot-damn, good-shit examples of the aforementioned [a] that I didn't bother videotaping when they were first broadcast. Proof if proof were needed, then, that I'm still an analogue man living [...]
Heath Ledger 1979-2008
I heard about Heath Ledger's death just before I went to bed last night and it floored me. Sad, sad news. This was a formidable talent who was at his prime and, I'm certain, would have gone from strength to strength.He also played The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight, the sequel to my all-time favourite superhero flick, 2005's Batman Begins. From what I've seen of this performance already it looks as though Ledger more than nailed it. Dark Knight co-star Michael Caine recently had this to say about his performance:“I tell you the big surprise in the new [...]
James Joyce’s Digbethers
The great Irish writer James Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle briefly lived in Birmingham's Digbeth area, apparently.
