Words Dept.

Help me. I’m worried I may be one of those “Morrissey apologists” you sometimes hear about. None of my best friends are Morrissey, yet I can’t help empathise with the erstwhile Smiths frontman. To make matters worse, I’ve got form in this area. Three years ago when, in an NME interview, Morrissey expressed some rather [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Creature Features – The site that likes to ask: What if Virginia Woolf was a wolf? And then shows you. BBC News: Runaway horse in French capital – Something weirdly beautiful about this video. More Adam Tinworth: NUJ: “effing blogs” – Analytics jiggery-pokery reveals NUJ anti-blog prejudice

I’ve just returned from Lyme Park, having witnessed a deer sprinting around the place like a maniac. It made me realise that I am scared of most animals. Also that I don’t really know anything about the behaviour of deer. Are they minded, especially the male ones with the big antlers, to be aggressive towards [...]

Apparently there was an earthquake last night. No, really. Look at this long list of boring anecdotes (sorry, I meant to say cutting edge media weblog 2.0) if you don’t believe me. As a seasoned veteran of the infamous Dudley quake of ’02 (I was living in Birmingham at the time), I knew what it [...]