We Come At Last To The Great Faecal Examination Of Our Times

Added on 22 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently writing The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 25th January 2005: The double windows in the downstairs bathroom rattled eerily in the wind. The one on the outside with a loud, incessant clatter, keeping rhythm with the beating wings of...

The One With The Magnetic Ball

Added on 21 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently writing The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 19th January 2005: Looking up from his post-school snack, yesterday afternoon, my wee lad broke a long silence with the words: 'If one of your family dies, it's wrong to put them in the ga...

The Two Minute Review

Added on 20 January 2009

At some point during the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, you start rooting for Keanu Reeves to just kill everyone. It’s not like we don’t all deserve it. Keanu comes to Earth to save the planet from the human race. He intends giving us one last chance by speaking to the UN, bu...

In The Bleak Midwinter

Added on 19 January 2009

Warsaw is deep in the bleak midwinter of its discontent. Of course, the Poles are generally discontent, they don't need it to be freezing. The cold persists, and it snows every now again, a mild flurry without yet depositing several feet of the stuff. It is incumbent on householders in Poland to cle...

The Many Adventures of Vlada The Pooh

Added on 16 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is working on this year's bestselling barbershop death junkie novel, The Final Cut. The following children's story first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 7th June 2005: The Many Adventures of Vlada The Pooh Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood. Where Slobodan Robin plays, There lives...