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This was on the wall of our hotel in LA, just down the corridor from our room.

... is like drinking the dirty water left over from washing up. Ick.

Marie Antoinette is a colossal exercise in missing the whole ruddy point. It looks nice and is stylishly played, but the emphasis of the sc...

Dr Who’s companions never seem to suffer from jet lag. I assume this is because the TARDIS monkeys with their brains at the same time it lea...

Am off to LA tomorrow morning for a weekend at the Gallifrey convention . Bought a few new clothes for the occasion, including a stripy hood...

Hello. There used to be a great, long 5,000-word post sat here but someone has asked if they can publish it, and I get money if I take it do...

Am a little behind on my American telly. Have seen up to the end of Season 4 of 24, up to the end of Season 2 of Lost, and nothing at all of...

J. and H. leant us The Muppets Wizard of Oz , which we'd been sort of avoiding seeing. Had been pretty unimpressed with most recent Mupp...

Yesterday was good but long, and I got home in time to fall asleep over pizza. Mmm. Finished off some things today which is rather satisfyin...

There are 1,073 stories in from our writing competition - about 10 times as many as we'd been expecting. Have made a start on reading ha...

Popped round to see Nimbos last night and many shiny treats. As well as the long-awaited Heroes #12 (Eccles!), he showed off the first two...

Got talking about acceptable swearwords (again) and the origins of words like "bloke". Scooby Doo's (or rather Shaggy's) &...

After a long day forging sense from the senseless yesterday, I had a chilly wait for the homeward-bound train. Freelancing for such disparat...

Hello from amid a giddy whirlwind of activity. A festive bout of man-flu suggests that perhaps I should have some sleep, while deadlines and...

Am re-watching Michael Palin’s adventure Round the World in 80 Days . It’s, ahem, research for a current writing project, which means seeing...

Full of cold and feeling stupid, so here’s one I started elsewhere. “Full of challenging ideas you want to argue with,” is how Joan Bakewell...

Alerted by m’colleague Paul Cornell , I have paid my 79p to iTunes and now own Neil Hannon singing Murray Gold’s “Love Don’t Roam”. It’s th...

It has all been a bit hectic recently, with people's birthdays amid a leviathan of work. The best mate, whose birthday it was on Saturda...

Being a Big Boss, you often get to tell at your legions to Jump. "How high?" they will say. Or more often, "How many words, b...

Have been comparing the post-Christmas tummy with m’learned colleagues, as well as sharing methods for working it all off. One chum restrict...