Rik Mayall 1958-2014

Very sorry to have lost comic legend Rik Mayall yesterday. He was best known in the US for The Young Ones and small parts on Black Adder, but my favorite thing of his was The […]

Bears

Not quite the sense of menace I was hoping for, but that’ll have to do… One of the effects of this new Internet wonderland of information is that now everyone feels they are in competition […]

Melancholia

Sometimes it can be really hard to just do the the obvious unfinished work in front of you. A fairly unproductive week put me to mind of this famous engraving by the artist Albrecht Dürer, […]

Here it comes

Another clip from the jazz education melodrama Whiplash has been released: Pretty soon you’re going to be able to pay money to see the whole thing.