So I'm finally reading War of The Worlds. I've never actually finished it. I remember trying to read it when I was about eight, with a dictionary on standby. Obviously I didn't get very far.

The other sunday the old George Pal version was on TV and me and Man gleefully sat down to watch and reminisce about just how loud we screamed when that ( Read more... )

The English language so far lacks a word for the feeling that must be experienced by a sitcom writer who thinks they've hit the jackpot when their comedy is optioned by the BBC and who subsequently gets a 'phone call saying "We love it! We think it'll be the perfect vehicle for Will Mellor ( Read more... )

So, I picked up the latest Anita Blake from the library, presumably because I am completely fucking mad.

( I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way. )

We now return to the book so awful even I can’t believe it, and I’ve read Defy The Eagle. I like shit books. I genuinely enjoy curling up with a bogawful book as much as I like to read good ones. After all, you can’t tell a good book from a bad one if you’ve only ever read really good books and vice versa. You need to know shit from Shineola if you ( Read more... )

Read this in Bender's voice. It makes it approximately 1000% more awesome ( Read more... )

Right, must go back to work shortly. I have sworn on everything I hold sacred that I will finish this manuscript by the 15th, which is going to be fun because I have to do a full manicure and pedicure for Mother tomorrow and then Monday is Man's Birthday and I'll probably need to take him out to dinner or something. So Ayn has had to hang on for a ( Read more... )

Last time in As The Stomach Turns, Howard Roark got expelled from the Stanton Institute for having ginger pubes, a God complex and no idea of what an architect actually does. As first chapters go it was terrible, but first chapters are notoriously tricky and perhaps it'll get better, right?

( SO WRONG. )

One thing I especially love about politics is that it offers such 'scope for procrastination', as Anne Shirley never said. That said I've been trying very hard to behave myself and stop dicking around eyeballing the government, although as soon as ours gets boring America wheels out a brand new sideshow idiot to point and laugh at. This time's it's ( Read more... )

Taking a bit of a break from politics for a couple of days, even though it’s shaped up to be one of the most exciting few days so far, especially for us Liberal Democrats. Overnight we’ve gone from the party of Hi, We’re Over Here Actually to being the party of FUCK YEAH. Which is nice, but let’s not jinx it. There’s two debates and a long way to ( Read more... )

I might try that Fifty Books In A Year thing I've seen some people do. It doesn't sound like a lot of reading really, but I might have to give it a go to see if it's more than it sounds, and also because I should probably read less crap ( Read more... )