I actually watched TV last night and wasted a few hours. A movie was on – “Man on Fire”. I started watching it and thought it might be good because Denzel Washington usually does an ok job. I had doubts when I realised it was yet another helpless-kid/woman-gets-kidnapped storyline, this time, of course, set in [...]
Archive for November, 2009
TV trial
Posted in home, tagged "man on fire", American movies, American TV, movies, violence on 24 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Misery
Posted in home, melancholy on 17 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve realised that I’ve been moaning a bit lately – particularly yesterday. I’ve moaned about the new work website, the proposed work function for Christmas, blogging, biscuits produced by Griffins, and probably other smaller things. I blame the weather – I’m so very fed up with grey skies and cold winds. It’s the worst spring [...]
Bloggery
Posted in work, tagged blogging on 12 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been feeling a bit disgruntled about the work-related blog lately. Only three out of seven of us post regularly. Originally there were five of us then we opened it up to more people to get more posts. But the result is not more posts at all. One of the new people has taken over [...]
100 best novels
Posted in interests, tagged books, novels on 6 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I looked at Time’s 100 best English-language novels (from 1923-present). My reaction was basically “pfft”. I’ve read 9 of those 100 and tried to read a couple more from the list (without success – just too awful). Of those 9, I only enjoyed 3 and one other was ok but I wouldn’t rave about it, [...]
