Monthly Archives: December 2007

Nutters, “Emigration, Death, Regret and Substance Abuse”

2007-12-22 – 14:19:54

I see that Tony Blair has become a catholic. No surprise there. But as an ex-catholic atheist myself, I’m feeling down with Nick Clegg. In other catholic-related news, there’s a fine analysis of ‘Fairytale of New York’ on the BBC website, after the Radio 1 farrago. And I hadn’t realised that Shane McGowan’s birthday is [...]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in Britain today, lj, musings, politics | Comments (0)

Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)

2007-12-19 – 11:05:00

I hadn’t read any Amis before (either of them), but I’ve wanted to try Kingsley for a while; mainly for his SF connections, but when I saw this in a second-hand bookshop I thought it might be a good place to start. This one isn’t SF, of course. Instead, it’s described as a “comic novel”. [...]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in books, lj | Comments (0)

Cheerleader Saved, World Saved…

2007-12-07 – 00:19:11

… for now, at least (What, you think that’s a spoiler? You saw the future world when Sylar had healing powers: obviously that one wasn’t going to come true). You know, some things shouldn’t have a second series. They are perfect bite-sized little vignettes as they are (OK, pretty big bites, and not so much [...]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in tv | Comments (1)