Shane Richmond

Anything and Whatever are two soft drinks made by a company in Singapore. Anything comes in several fizzy varieties, such as Cola, Apple and Root Beer. Whatever is the non-fizzy version which includes Ice Lemon Tea, Apple Tea and Peach Tea flavours.
The odd bit is that you don’t know what flavour you’ve got until you [...]

David Bowie duets with Cher:
Everything seems normal, albeit slightly cabaret, until around 1min 20secs and then things go downhill very quickly.
This was 1975, with Bowie still enormously cool and creative. But, to give him his credit, he appears to be having a really good time – check out the dancing just after the four minute [...]

Today was largely spent trying to shake off the cold that’s been annoying me all week. However, in a late evening spurt of productivity I freshened this blog up a little.
The impetus was Last.fm and its new widgets. The old one stopped working a few weeks ago so I fixed that and then, since I [...]

Another one down: Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. One more for the halfway mark. The review is over at 26books.

Overheard on the train: “what we’ll do is I call her mobile and see if she picks up. If she does then you call her straight after and if she doesn’t pick up then you’ll know she’s avoiding you innit?”
(He really did say ‘innit’ by the way, I didn’t put that in just because that’s [...]

I’ve written before about my love for The Wire. Now I’ve managed to take my ravings to a wider audience. This show really does turn viewers into evangelists – I’ve introduced a few people and they, in turn, have introduced others. If this ripple effect hasn’t got you yet, I’m sure it will eventually.
As the [...]

Danny DeVito is selling Lemoncello. I have no idea whether it’s any good but you really should listen to the theme tune.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Or, to put it another way, the team that’s about to win the Premier League (officially The Best League In The World) just got a footballing lesson from the team that currently sits third in Italy’s Serie A.
Unfortunately, I was out tonight so I missed all the fun. Still, at least it’s safe to enjoy [...]