Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2009
Finally an Espresso in a Book Shop I Want
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009I’m not a coffee lover but I am a book lover so I sometimes find the replacement of shelving with books on in book shops by trendy coffee area a bit annoying. Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road now has an espresso machine I have no objections to. Spotted on WWdN: In Exile
Chicken in Chardonnay and Peach Sauce
Sunday, April 26th, 2009I’d not done this in a while but I cooked this for my dinner tonight. 60g Butter (Unsalted is best) 2tbsp Vegetable oil 4 Chicken Breasts 8 spring onions chopped 300ml White Wine (Chardonnay) 4 tbsp Clear Honey 2 tbsp Lemon Juice 4 Fresh, ripe Peaches stoned 250ml Double Cream 2 tbsp Cornflour mixed to […]
Be Very Very Quiet…
Friday, April 24th, 2009I was walking home tonight from work and walked into a street I walk down most nights. Now its not winter there are usually people in the street when I walk down it. Tonight isn’t unusual there are kids playing in the street, someone is unloading their shoping from a car and two girl who […]
The Case for the Defense of British Grittiness
Thursday, April 16th, 2009I’ve just seen another talking head piece where it was said that Britain doesn’t make gritty police shows. I like The Wire but there isn’t any need to get into self flagelation that all we ever make is Dixon of Dock Green and Heartbeat. If I swore on this blog I’d use a single word […]
Rhapsody in the Trafford Centre?
Monday, April 13th, 2009Someone must have been short on ideas when they made the advert for the Trafford Centre I just saw. First some uninspired footage of clothes. Second an innane voice over. Third a script about a formula. Forth add a bit of mathmatical notation to The Trafford Centre’s name at the end. Finally top it all […]
Consort Review
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Having finished The Translated Man I felt like reading some more fiction so I’ve just finished reading Kim’s latest novella Consort. Skipping quickly past the rather cliched cover. Not that its badly done but it reminds me of racks of second hand romance books in charity shops. At least with an e-book its not there […]
The Translated Man
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Finished reading The Translated Man by Chris Braak yesterday. Since I’m being regularly e-mailed by a web site who’ve taken to including my posts tagged reviews are included in their review listings where the reviews are in turn reviewed I’m going to do a bit of a Corbett first. While I may tag this as […]
Marketing not Quite Joined Up
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Littlewoods recently sent me an e-mail thanking me for my business in the last year and hoping I’ll continue to spend as much with them this year as I did last year. I may well take their advice – I spent nothing last year and its quite likely I’ll do the same this year…
Moondash Showreel
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Daniel Munteanu’s show reel at the Moondash project is well worth a look.
Today Programme Viral Advert
Friday, March 20th, 2009I’m a bit late with this but it did amuse me. The Evan Davis’ blog on the BBC web site explains it. I found some of the comments amusing just because they say more about the commenters than the piece itself. A few obviously don’t get there is a difference between an advert being viral […]