A couple of hours to go and I've just realised this is mobile broadband, the mobile networks go haywire at midnight on New Year's so no time to waste: Time for my last blog entry of 2009, the annual roundup of the good, bad and indifferent that doesn't fit into any of the previous year-review categories. Although this year's will be pretty short ( Read more... )

Funnily enough this is the second theatre review I've written for 2009 - I've already written 2009: High culture goes lowculture for lowculture; inevitably I'll be repeating myself a bit here, but have a look at that too if you want because it's got a bit more of a specific focus. Whereas anyone who's hung around this blog knows that this year more ( Read more... )

Another review of the year already; well there's only two more days left in 2009 (and indeed in this decade) and I still have two categories left to go - and "theatre" and "everything else" are the big'uns. Anyway sadly the attractive man fixation will be the quickest one to sum up this year. It's not that the world got any uglier in 2009, it's ( Read more... )

Yep, there's only a couple of days left for me to do those themed reviews of the year that are compulsory for any blogger with nothing better to do. Actually a couple of them will be fairly similar to last year's - although it hasn't been a bad year for them exactly, there's not been much new that I've discovered in the field of attractive men, or ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, three people! Actually three may be a bit optimistic because at the moment "The Internet" seems to be like pretty much everywhere else, i.e. a ghost town. Is it always like this on New Year's Day, and the only reason I noticed this time is that I'm not drinking any more? I had to do my weekly shop and I've never seen Sainsbury's so ( Read more... )