Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Shetland and Screenplay

06/09/10

I'll be posting something later about how I got to Shetland and home again but I wanted to make a separate posting here about Shetland itself because these have been some truly magical days ... read more ...

Kermode on Avatar and 3D

30/03/10

Mark Kermode is one of my favourite people and his views on 3-D cinema (he thinks it's a con, largely being deployed to try to fight film piracy rather than because it makes films any better) are widely known - to the point where he could bore for England on it. read more ...

Eastern Promises

04/01/10

I have been thinking some more about Eastern Promises which we watched last night and was one of my Christmas presents from Beth. ... read more ...

Space

27/12/08

Two of my Christmas presents were space exploration DVDs. Apollo 13 had been recommended to me by friends ... read more ...

Saturday

13/12/08

I'd like to tell you what a lot of useful things I did today ... read more ...

Hellboy II

12/12/08

Tonight we watched Hellboy II: The Golden Army which is fresh out on DVD. You may remember my enthusiasm for Hellboy and in truth this is just more of the same ... read more ...

More Partials

06/12/08

This evening¹, while watching Man of Fire² I had another partial seizure... read more ...

Narnia

05/12/08

So tonight's entertainment was The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. We're a bit late coming to this for one reason or another... read more ...

Harper

15/10/08

After his recent death I bought The Paul Newman Collection - five if his movies¹ on DVD. Tonight we watched the first, Harper. read more ...

Hell ... inside and out

05/09/08

Tonight we watched Hellboy on DVD while outside the weather was suitably hellish with thunder and 18.1mm of rain in an hour, a new record for our weather station! ... read more ...

Current status: (via twitter)
Paul needs a holiday

I am currently reading:

Smoke in the Valley
by David Kynaston
Great Northern?
by Arthur Ransome
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

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Word of the Day:

pyrophoric