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With apologies to the London Review of Breakfasts.

The Walpole is a fixture of the road to South Ealing. Wandering down from the bustle of Ealing Broadway, one passes Ealing Studios, the YMCA and eventually a row of shops, concealing this atypical cafe in its midst. Cafe by day, restaurant by night – does it have [...]

Inspired by Cristiano Betta I grabbed the current IMDB top 250 movies and had a trawl through to see how I was doing. The tally comes out in my favour, with 150 watched, 5 to be released this year and 95 left to go. So, my project for this evening is to add those 95 [...]

Having been thinking a bit about movies for the last few days it has come to my attention that I haven’t run a movie night at my new flat yet. When I say “new flat” I actually mean “the place where I have lived for the last couple of years”, so it may be considered [...]

Update: The live audience episode has been cancelled. More details…
It’s not everyday you get a planetary alignment that sticks together a bunch of the things that I like. So, take these not all that disparate sources, stick them together and have a guess what you get:

Red Dwarf
The ‘Selected by Dave, for Billy’ digital TV channel [...]

The thing I love most about the internet in recent times is the sense of immediacy and connectedness. If I want to know something I can Google(tm) it and quickly get an answer. If I want to look up a ‘fact’ I can go and search Wikipedia (and if I don’t agree with it then [...]

Brandon Osterman (Director of Product Recall) on the set of Siren
Another year down and my conquest of the movie world continues apace. The lure of the newly launched Dave channel and its 24 hour programming of ‘all the programs that Billy watches on the other channels, plus some reality shit about airports’ has cut drastically [...]

It seems that the credit crunch has hit The City even harder than we thought:

Despite my love of the hat I managed to resist the temptation to drop a pound on these London Wall shop squatters, but Dave couldn’t help himself. The resultant ‘beanie’ is large enough to not only enclose Dave’s gigantic head but [...]

While I do like useful websites, I also like entirely useless ones and this one that Utku tweeted over to me today definitely fills the latter category – both useless and liked by me. The Great British Sandwich.

Fill in a form, choose a colour and add a layer to the sandwich, complete with helpful guide [...]

So, about book a week this year, with 54 down (although I think I’ve missed a few and that number’s already gone up by 2 since I started writing this due to The Remembering). I have also done rather a large number of Metro sudokus on the train. Not a particularly varied selection, with the [...]

One of the many things that annoys me is the recent upping of incidents of security guards getting pissy about people taking photos on their patches. However, what annoys me even more is people getting pissy back at them, making the security guards even pissier in the future. Yes, you get a lot of jobsworths [...]