The real reason why I shall be travelling to Italy by train.
Nonsense
When heroes align
Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin.
What is oozing out of our ground?
American woman outraged by rainbows.
Tip not included
In which I receive a request for one of my photos to appear in a book about circumcision.
Extinction event
Eyak language dies with its last speaker.
Life's too short
Guardian identifies '1000 Novels Everyone Must Read'.
Put 'em away, Kate: we've seen 'em plenty of times already
Kate Winslet has got a pair of golden globes.
Tossed aside like a small bag of wet turds
Jim Hodgson reviews the last three or four minutes of 'The Hills Have Eyes II'.
Happy Birthday, you big dummy!
It's Captain Beefheart's birthday.
Not dead
Sorry there have been so few updates recently.