That was a long week, I can tell you. Everyone seems to like self-help books. I see people in cafes reading them, and usually it’s something like The Secret or The Cosmic Ordering Service which appears to be a religion/mystical thing in disguise as advice. These never clicked with me, as a lot of them seem to revolve around… Continue reading book review: the subtle art of not giving a f*ck

So almost exactly last year I wrote here about starting over a new leaf, and I said that it was the perfect time to revive an old project: i.e. this blog. How did that work out? Well, I ended up changing jobs, and everything about this went down the pan as I concentrated on the… Continue reading really new year, really new leaf, really new blog

Hello blog… I last updated you on the 29th of September last year, and so it’s exactly one year to the day as I write this. The year since then hasn’t been wasted at all, on the contrary it’s been very, very busy, but I feel as if you’ve been neglected, dear blog. This must… Continue reading one year later…

So, it’s just come out of a (Jewish) new year, a time when traditionally people take stock of the previous year, and decide on new directions they’d like to take with the next. This is such a time for me, and what better time than to resurrect an old project such as this? I’ve also… Continue reading new year, new leaf… new blog?

This title could refer to two things: either this blog, which is an on-again off-again project of mine, or the current state of pop culture. On the former, life has gotten in the way and I’ve let it gather dust, and on the latter we’re talking about the current Hollywood strip-mining of comic book culture… Continue reading back to the beginning…