A 30 minute (quicktime) video that shows what happened on 9/11 for someone living less than 500 yards from the North Tower…sobering, just in case you forgot. (via Metafilter & Ursis).
I was working in Peterborough at the time - and trying to understand why the call center phones had gone silent (all our users were [...]

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The genius at Gaping Void

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Thank you please!

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Bad week for the current crop of ’starlets’ - Lohan gets her handbag stolen (with a million bucks of tom inside - start scouring ebay) and then gets papped whilst flashing the firecrotch, Hilton gets her album hacked (all hail Banksy) and then gets done for DUI (best picture of Paris onthe web ever).
Arctic Monkeys win the [...]

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I first heard a Ray Montagne track in the closing sequence of an episode of Rescue Me, ‘All the Wild Horses’ accompanied a really harrowing scene where the lead characters son was killed in a hit and run accident. I picked up his first album after hearing this track, and was impressed with the [...]

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There was so much press about this when I was in France - Charlottes father was clearly a legend there, and much seems to be expected of his daughter with Jane Birkin.
Its fortunate then, that she drafted in a dream team to help produce this album - her first since ‘Charlotte Forever’ in 1986. French electronica [...]

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The Bloodstone Papers - Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan is my favourite author - so this will only go one way, but really this is a fascinating book. Set between the 1940’s in India and present day England, Duncan tells the story of young Indian man as he grows up from a brutal school environment, through the [...]

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Non Fiction - Chuck Palahniuk
I’ve only read one book by Palahniuk before (Choke) but I picked this up as a collection of short stories sometimes suits me on holiday. This is a collection of articles and essays collected by Palahniuk over his years of writing. Stories of steroid abuse, college wrestling and a particularly good [...]

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
I normally skip past so called ‘comedy’ novels, but the cover attracted to me to this one. The story is of an 85 year old self centred Ukranian widower living in Peterborough - who decides to marry a much younger woman from the Ukraine in a marriage [...]

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I’m back! Just returned from two weeks holiday in France - and as usual for my holiday I took a pile of books to read while I was away. I’ll post some words about each of em - and you can see what kind of strangeness I’ve been reading:

Freakonomics by Levitt/Dubner
So much hype around this [...]

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