Depression Over Warsaw

Added on 07 November 2008

I used to do school shows when I was a teenager. The latent thespian gene. Played Peter Duncan in a Blue Peter sketch once. My friend and I wrote it, and thought it was pretty good, but I remember the teachers in charge more or less rewriting every line, while still telling us it was true to the ori...

Romance And The Lonely Barber

Added on 06 November 2008

Should Barney Thomson get involved in ro-mance? There’s the question for The Final Cut. In the original draft of the book, the draft that was translated into German, he has a thing with the police sergeant investigating the crime. A female police sergeant, I should add, for clarity. It’s...

My Part In His Victory

Added on 05 November 2008

Good day for the British government to bury all that bad news it has to release but wants people not to notice. Just caught Barack Obama’s first interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw after winning the Presidential election. Here’s an extract: Brokaw: Barack, tell us, if you will, about some of...

Over The Hedge

Added on 04 November 2008

The kids went back to school yesterday. TPCKAM took the day off work and we went to see a hedge. It was shut. A hedge, you’re thinking, that sounds intriguing. I’m just going to stop what I’m doing for the next five minutes to read about the hedge. Three winters ago we went to the...

Sound. And More.

Added on 03 November 2008

I went into a recording studio in Warsaw last week to check it out. A potential venue in the city for the recording of next year's "cd that looks set to rock the music world to its core"*. At the moment we don't have a band name, we don't have a name for the cd, we don't have artwork, we d...