As anyone who has emerged into the full bloom of adulthood with a modicum of self-awareness will acknowledge, the past always informs the present. For most of us this takes place in small but important ways – a nostalgic preference for a particular holiday place, meal or cultural activity, Continue Reading
Book review: Sirius by Jonathan Crown
Writing a tragi-comic novel centred on a dog of Lassie-like abilities, that is onw who is deeply loveable, prodigious and fantastical, may seem like a highly perilous undertaking. After all, how do you make one of the darkest periods in human history when fascist tyranny became horrifically commonplace and Continue Reading
Brick bazinga! The Big Bang Theory gets a LEGO intro theme
As it marches ever onward through its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory, sitcom ratings juggernaut, geek flagbearer and hilarious diversion from the travesties of real life, has finally been the recipient of something it should have had a long, long time ago. Which is what you ask as Continue Reading
Books on the move: Fascinating timelapse video shows re-shelving efforts at New York Public Library
The Rose Main Reading Room of The New York Public Library is an impressive space. The beautifully-appointed cavernous room is full of reading desks, a studious atmosphere, thousands of library users during opening hours, and as you’d expect, a titanic number of books (over 52,000 to be exact). It is Continue Reading
Dug from UP IRL: We have only just met him but already we love him!
There is much to love about Pixar’s UP, a film which has given us one of the most poignant opening sequences to any film ever. One of the most memorable characters from a film with a slew of them is Dug, the adorably sweet, non-thugish canine henchman of Charles F. Continue Reading
Eulogies for the living come humorously alive in My 90-Year-Old Roommate
It’s one of the great truisms of life that, Pulitzer Prize winners and J. K. Rowling aside, writers don’t take on their craft as a profession to make money. In fact, pretty much any writer worth their blank Word page existential angst will tell you that they have to Continue Reading