Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m.

Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don't have a diary then sprint madly out the door this instant and buy one. If you don't …

A week or two ago, while she sat diligently at her desk attending to her many labours, my wife's gaze passed over an object that instantly made her think of me. What was this strange and captivating artefact? A leather-bound …

Earlier this afternoon, as Jess & I sat watching a Kerrywoman pull a plastic baby out of a woolen womb, a single A4 sheet was passed around our ante-natal classroom. Atop the page were the words "Positions for Labour …

Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the dinner; time spent with loved ones; browsing through the bumper issue of the …

Was in HMV the other day and noticed that Batman: The Movie (a full-length theatrical spin-off of the '60s series) has undergone something of a transformation.

First, we had the jolly VHS version. All colourful & kitsch family fun….

I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes in the name of fun. This tolerance of inconsistency led to situations where …

And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday's celebratory fancy dress part-tay was a raucous, riotous and rewarding affair. Particularly for me, as I scored a magnificent triumph in …

This Halloween sees me (somewhat reluctantly) abandoning my usual routine. There'll be no carving of turnips,I'm a traditionalist. no careful choosing of monster movies, and no poisoning of local children with cheap & nasty sweeties. Instead, I'll be performing …

Given the current global financial apocalypse I assume that most of you are now eating shoe leather for dinner, wailing yourselves to sleep in damp & draughty cardboard boxes, and shaking your sore-encrusted fists at an …

Yesterday afternoon I spent several minutes wandering around a very large shopping centre car park. Though this was not, I'm happy to say, the highlight of my weekend thus far, I did chance upon the below (groovy) images. Proof (as …

Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist?

Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we're not only getting out the club magnifying glass to squint at the werewolf myth (through the prism of "Gabriel Ernest"), but also asking (in strong, but …

I
Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet's fetishists, paranoids, perverts and obsessives, there are areas of enthusiasm that remain curiously (and sadly) neglected. Take …

Being (occasionally) a collaborative sort who (occasionally) values input, I canvassed regular and semi-regular Dreadful Thoughts "members" as to what tale they'd most like to cover in Story Club session number 9. After last week's …

Bit of light, wholesome family fun for you all on this pissy, piddly Saturday afternoon. Having been laid up sick for the last week I've had naught to do but work my way through a sizeable number of DVDs (always …

Poor Polidori. That's the title of D. L. MacDonald's (critical) biography of the sometime author and physician we turn our attentions to on this damp, grey and windy night. And a fitting title it …