Update 23/01/08 - I've emailed a few people who've shown (or casually expressed) interest in FIZZOO! to discuss format, structure, page & word count etc. If anyone else fancies getting involved please email me (or …

Since last I added a post to this blog (on the festive subject of hideous deformity) I've done a fair bit of running (5 miles, for Charity) and a small amount of sitting around in airports. A good deal …

Fate, as the unluckiest among us no doubt realise, can be a cruel and capricious thing. To some it regularly deals four (or even five) aces, to others it simply administers crippling …

After a very pleasant 10 days spent holidaying in beautiful Kerry, I've passed the last 72 hours (and counting) laid up in bed with an extremely nasty flu (complete with mild bouts of delirium).

On one of my very rare …

I happily, and freely, admit to being a frequent experiencer of (what I like to call) "Book Horn" - that delicious frisson of joy and expectation felt upon encountering a book that seems to have been …

Apologies if you've just spurted your precious morning coffee all over your keyboard, but the above graffito does indeed say what you think it says. Take another look. Yup, it's still there.

To add …

I'm not sure to what extent "Grafitti Studies" has (as a discipline) permeated academic institutions, but I'd be surprised if the below offshoot of the artform has recieved much scholarly attention.

The circumstances in which such graffiti …

Things may appear to have been fairly quite around here of late, but I haven't been totally unproductive. Like a beaver on crack I have been…er…beavering away on another project and now, finally, it can …