Well, there is this gorgeous woman who has my eye, but I'm not sure she's into younger dudes, so I'm keeping things more on the friendly side at the moment.

Yeah, it's a novel so filled with rich ideas, but Haddad opts for lecturing instead of creating a genuinely compelling narrative and central character. The fact he went for a generic Arab setting makes a bit of sense if you read some interviews with him (he moved around quite a bit growing up and he didn't want to get…

Hey, if it worked for Traffik and The Wire…

I… wut?

Excellent!

A very interesting point regarding the surface niceness of Northern Europe and its freedoms and limitations when it comes to interactions. I also think a place like London is so huge and diverse that if you are going to make any kind of impression, you just have to break through that wall. I often joke as an American,…

Granted, the options and variety are there, but I do have my off nights and strike-outs. It's just the way it goes. I'm still pissed I didn't get to spend the night with the hot Polish guy yesterday (he had a kind heart, his teeth looked like little white tiles, AND just the right balance of lean and muscly). But,…

You've been engaging with the Real World©?!

I heard the film has aged quite poorly but that Patty McCormack's performance is easily the best thing about it.

That is the plan!

I heard she was great in the first part of Channel 4's Red Riding trilogy.

I tried to watch Sicario on my plane ride back to London, but the sound of the jet engine completed muted the dialogue, although every other gun shot or door being broken open rang loud and clear. I had to give up after 15 minutes.

I'm thrilled you are enjoying it so far! It's one of my favorite novels of hers (I'd place it at second place at this time) and a big reason why is it shows just how great she was at exploring the interior lives of her characters. She always did that, particularly with her crime novels, but in Edith's Diary, she goes…

Success is always in the eye of the beholder. I just had a bit of a serendipitous week.

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*After a brief sabbatical/period in exile, I'm back. It's been an enervating past week, what with editing a 45 page business plan that was written almost entirely in broken English (the consequence of being assigned to a group that consisted entire of Chinese students who spoke English…

This made me laugh way harder than it should. That damn word always gets me.

What about Sir Bernard Ingham and his unrepentant response to the tragedy?

The baby was due in Twenty Twelve.

I wonder if this will lead to Olivia Colman adding another BAFTA to her shelf…

She was so adorable in that film.