Why, whenever I want to get an early night (tonight, say) is there always a great film (The Royal Tenenbaums, say) starting after midnight?
Ingmar Bergman died this year, as did Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and Pavarotti (so famous he’s already in my Mac’s built-in spell checker). And so who do the BBC put next to [...]

I wasn’t really planning on posting anything over Christmas, and not least because any words I do write really need to be contributing towards a looming deadline. But I sent out a Christmas email to some friends earlier and some of the responses have been particularly touching and now, as the clock trips over [...]

There was a tired blogger called PaulWhose posting had slowed to a crawlTurns out writing a bookIs much more work than it looksBut Joyeux Noël to you all

A real word-counter of a day today. I had a target of 2500, and once I hit it on the nose about an hour ago; I just stopped dead. For some reason, I’ve just been really tired all day – like my head is not quite connected properly to my neck. Even a power-nap through [...]

N, as they say, SFW.

This is my 100th post on here. Which means an average of about one post every four days, a number I’m quite happy with. The only slightly annoying this is that I’m too tired to write anything appropriately momentous to mark the occasion.
I got up at six this morning, having gone to bed at [...]

I just – and I mean just – managed to recover from my horrible man flu in time for my birthday. By just, I mean in the cab at 10pm on my way to a party. I was still sucking a lozenge when I got out of the lift.
I don’t normally get too involved in [...]

I know – I know you don’t care – but sorry for lack of updates. I’m really quite poorly.
Normal service will resume, unless I die.