There are times when photograph inspire, times when they just encourage you to give up with no hope of ever getting any good, and other times when you just sit back and enjoy. Fortunately, Trey Ratcliff’s work often falls into the later camp and stuckincustomers.com is one of the best sites on the web for …
Category Archives: Arts & Entertainment
Amazon book reviews and the average reader
I do find it amazing how many book reviews on Amazon claim that the book isn’t for the average reader. To quote from my recent comment on this: I do wonder who this “average” reader is that anyone posting on these feedbacks seems to consider themselves to be above. My guess, and it is no …
Kindle and newspaper subscriptions
Newspapers? I have had a Kindle 3 for just a few weeks (early Christmas present) and have done the 14-day free trials of several newspapers. I have decided to use Calibre instead having trialled that in parallel. I leave my laptop running, it downloads Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail and BBC News and sends them to …
Music from my time
Many of the social networks and forum sites ask you to populate some kind of profile and those often include a question on what music you like. I always have a lot of trouble with this. I like a vast vast range of music ranging from classical to some of the latest pop ditties (snigger), …
Doctor Who
It is no great confession to say that I a fan of Doctor Who. I have been looking forward to the start of a new series with a new actor in the lead role. Today was that day. Much as I loved the work of David Tennant (both prior to Doctor Who, and on stage …
Amazing Human Body
We saw a performance by Traces at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry last night. An acrobatic dance show described on their site thus: TRACES combines high-level circus skills with an electric urban street energy. With disciplines as varied as Chinese poles, basketball, skateboards, classical piano, dance, comedy and illustration, these five acrobats move quickly from …
Borders no more
I was saddened to see Borders in Birmingham this weekend selling off everything including store fittings. Borders has been my favorite book store for a while, especially their out-of-town stores on retail parks. I preferred the style of their stores to those of Waterstones. It also removes one of the more interesting options for ebook …
Incest Revelations Will Be Nothing in the Future of Celebrity Biographies [P…
will so called celebrities go to any lengths to promote their wares? Incest Revelations Will Be Nothing in the Future of Celebrity Biographies [Predictions] via Gawker by Brian Moylan on 9/23/09 Mackenzie Phillips is setting the media ablaze with her revelation that she had sex with her father. Having come this far, just what will …
Eat your heart out Rolf Harris
I have just watched something amazing. Sand artist Kseniya Simonova, winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent who, in this YouTube clip drew a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. [youtube 518XP8prwZo] The Daily Telegraph had an article on the performance …
Another theatre
We had a family outing to The Priory Theatre in Kenilworth last night to see an amateur production of Tom, Dick and Harry (by Ray and Michael Cooney). Neither I nor my eldest daughter were very well, in fact I had been off sick the previous day with general lurgyness and my daughter had stayed …