When did this place become a ‘blog’ instead of a ‘homepage’? Or was it ever a ‘homepage’? I remember back in the day (10 whole years ago!), people didn’t have ‘blogs’, they had ‘home pages’. It was different for one reason: a blog you’re expected to update, and is supposed to be for people to look in. A home page, on the other hand, didn’t need to update for months on end (but that didn’t stop you from checking back every day if it was a really good home page). ...

“The audience knows the truth; the world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, then you get to see something very special - you really don’t know it? It was the look on their faces.” Wow. What a screwball of a movie. Just when you really think you’ve got it more or less figured out, it jumps sideways at you. It’s a real magicians trick of a movie - afterwards, when the trick is explained, you pick up the little clues, and think “Oh yeah, I could’ve told you that from the start.” But, of course, you can’t, hence the brilliance. ...

A truly masterful restaurant review: “[M]y great-grandfather… was the one who had the gumption to escape the region of Eastern Europe which has supplied Divo’s inspiration. He saved me from having to eat this stuff every day. Thank you Josef. I owe you. This is jounralism to print out and frame (via).

The guys from MacHall are back and I didn’t even know it! The comic is Three Panel Soul, and it is muchos sweetness. (no, really)

There is a chill in the air that is undeniable now, a distinct snap to the edge of the wind that makes it much too tempting to stay indoors at all times. It was exactly a year ago that I was leaving London for home, glad to be escaping the creeping cold and dark that I’d experienced for the first time - this year though, there’s no such quick escape. ...