According to a BBC pole these are the actual Top 200 Favorite Books in the UK. I have tagged those I have read with this schema: 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.5) Add a '@' beside those you dont eve...

Filled in from laptop - Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:35 AM Been waiting at the doctors office for about 30 minutes now - longer time than usual to get shots. BHK is getting blood work done - I’m more peeved that she has to wait than me - she has been fasting since last night and probably has...

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Relax. It's just The Guardian that did this list. But it's fun to do this little self-administered test anyway. I did this before, and I'll do it again. I'm so bored anyway. I bolded below the novels I've either actually read or only encountered as movies. Anna said her score is 78. Call it envy, ca...

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Apparently the Wachowskis want to do Plastic Man next, but even if Warner doesn't let them do that, they might get the Superman franchise. Woah. Meanwhile, it looks like Warner wants Christopher Nolan to do a sci-fi movie called Inceptio...

And how do I know? Because on casual perusal of my Google Reader this morning, it starts out with some really great ghost footage from the UK. Sure, it kind of looks like the shadow of someone walking behind the camera, but if you've ever worked with cameras and lighting you know that the actual cam...

Comedian Eddie Izzard and veteran actor Vanessa Redgrave are to star in BBC1's new adaptation of the sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids. In an all-star cast, they will be joined by Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, and Jason Priestley. The two-part drama, which is due to air later this y...

Apologies for the long gap in posting. I haven't been writing much lately because I've been up to my arse in projects of various kinds, and trying to find some steady clients to support my book addiction and the lifestyle (such as it is) to which I've become accustomed. My house is filth...

As I'm sure you recall, I recently wrote about my dissatisfaction with Blockbuster. Well the dissatisfaction ends now. This past weekend I signed up for Netflix. What was the camel breaking straw you ask? On Saturday February 21st I returned two "movies by mail" to my local F*ckbuster ...

This meme begins here. It works like this: choose twenty five movies and write a one-sentence description for each. If you want to approach Dickensian lengths as you do, that’s fine, but it has to be one sentence and no more. You can choose whatever movies you want. If you choose to do this me...