Can it be The End Times here? Peter Bradshaw laughs at a movie:
Ted has nothing much to offer in terms of subtlety and sensitivity, but there are plenty of laughs.

Though given Bradshaw's usual cinematic tastes*, maybe he was due for a spot of unsubtle, insensitive hilarity, just as he once copped to loving Twilight

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Woman in gym changing room ( Read more... )

Dept of, what kind of person knowingly buys a ticket for Marat/Sade, and then leaves, disgusted, partway through the performance?
People have been walking out of the RSC's risqué new production of Marat/Sade. W! T! F!

Dept of filth! filth! in a less metaphorical sense:
Is your world awash with germs? Only one in 10 of us wash our hands after going ( Read more... )

We can haz.

This saga has been running for some weeks now, but we now have fixtures fixed and the unit and countertop in place, even if there are further things that have to happen.

I don't suppose anyone remembers the Great Bath Crisis of around this time of year in 2005, involving the replacement of the existing bath with a new one, and several ( Read more... )

O dear, I seem to have the okkards today, or the world has, lots of dropping stuff and tripping and minor computer hassles. Possibly due to not sleeping very well last night, due to twingey knee, which I suspect not so much hip-related as to rather dim action of mine on the legcurl machine at the gym yesterday.

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Reading this this morning in ( Read more... )

Well, this is a real head-banger: Was it ever going to work - forming a 21st-century 'tribe' online with odd trips to a Pacific island? Decca Aitkenhead investigates. Boy, this one has 'unexamined assumptions' written all over it in neon, pulsating, capital letters.
Two years ago, a pair of young British internet entrepreneurs decided to start ( Read more... )

Lit (or at least, non-genre) fic:

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872), for the uncountableth time, on the plane. Age cannot wither, nor custom stale.

( E H Young, The Curate's Wife )

Victory, at least partial, for the users of the British Library. The Government is apparently wary of their collective wrath - this just in:
Dear Supporters ( Read more... )

James Fenton, Was Shakespeare, or was his father, a Catholic, or a crypto-Catholic?:
Were they connected to Jesuit missionaries operating undercover in Warwickshire? These questions are asked in an article in the TLS of March 16. The answer to the latter question appears to be a resounding raspberry, which is interesting, since the authors of the ( Read more... )