All In The Mind

Added on 13 September 2010

As of last week, bizarre, fast-paced, new-age severed-hand thriller The Lost Symbol, by the relatively unknown American hack scribbler Dan Brown, had sold 490,006 copies in paperback in the UK. So writing about it twice doesn't seem out of place. There's some amount of, what some might call, comple...

Waiting For A Sign

Added on 10 September 2010

Disconcerting reports have reached Long Midnight Publishing Headquarters here in the heart of London of plans by an American pastor to publicly burn the entire canon of Barney Thomson books this weekend. The Rev Terry Jones, formally of Monty Python, originally stated that many of the books in the ...

Luxury Blog Entry

Added on 09 September 2010

When the first whistle blows and the first ball is kicked and the first player falls to the turf faking injury at Euro 2012, and Scotland aren't there, we'll look back on Stephen McManus's 97th minute goal against Liechtenstein and realise that it didn't make any difference whatsoever. When I'm Kin...

Fear and Loathing At The BBC

Added on 07 September 2010

Interesting comments by Stephen Fry today about the culture of fear at the BBC. The culture of fear being that they're scared to make innovative and exciting programmes, rather than that they're scared of choosing the wrong thing for lunch or that they're scared there's a giant octopus going to clam...

He's Having A Laugh

Added on 06 September 2010

Here at I Didn't Know What It Was So I Ate It we just read The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Well, I read it. On my own. So not we; I. It's too late to review The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, as everyone else has already reviewed it. A lot of people think it's rubbish, although not the man at the Sunday E...