Single people have traditionally hated St. Valentine's Day (in our modern, secular world now just called Valentines Day) because it supposedly celebrated coupledom - though personally it was always the crass commercialism of greetings-card makers that I found repugnant. Greetings…
BARBARELLA: Why me? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I have no armies or police, and I can't spare the presidential band! (from “Barbarella”) My favourite line. The threat of the Positronic Ray doesn't quite justify deploying the presidential band.…
Google has been running self-driving cars in San Francisco's Bay Area for some time now, and big car manufacturers are starting to make noises about self-driving cars too; which seems to be leading some people to assume they're coming in…
Our impact on the world is no more, in the long run, than footprints in the sand. Unique to us, but usually very much like other people's. Nothing is permanent. Everything that is seen is impermanent. Everything that is felt…
Sometimes you just have to jump, and hope you can come up with a plan on the way down. (Scene from “The Fifth Element”)…
In Japan there is a better system than waiting for a shooting star. You go to a Shinto shrine and write/draw your wish on a votive tablet. A lot of people wish for health and wealth, for themselves or…
My heart's a hotel people come and go through the lounge but all check out Your body is a well worn banknote sadly still in circulation Our love bouncing like a cheque round one hopefully intimate weekend…
A dog! I always hoped there would be dogs. (from “A Matter of Life and Death”)…
Manhattan's “High Line” - a disused elevated railway line that has now been repurposed as a public footpath - wasn't open yet on my last visit to New York, in 2011. I went to visit it this year. It's brilliant.…
End of Season 7 (7.12 - 7.22) 7.12 Potential The second half of season 7 starts like the first did, with lessons. SPIKE: do you think I care about a fair fight? VI: No, no sir. You…
DELIRIUM: What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago? DREAM: There isn't one. DELIRIUM: Oh. I…
