Baby Gods

Visit www.netdisaster.com and much hilarity doth ensue. You type in the url of a web site, pick a disaster and then some totally splendid flash animation ‘Disasterises’ (my word, not theirs, can I ‘tm’ that?) the site for you. I thought about making a video, but no need.

Has everyone used MyHeritage.com ? You get to upload a photo can then they compare your details with a bunch of ‘celebrities’ and come back with list designed to insult you. At least that happened to me! You go to the site, click on Face Recognition, and then Celebrity Collage upload a photo – marvel [...]

I had high hopes for all these books. But sadly none of them worked out for me – lucky old charity shop. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher forms part of the "Dresden Files" cannon – a splendid TV show if you ignore the Pilot episode. For the longest time reading the novel I thought I [...]

I read the first 3 Ripley books in a compendium form. And at the time I assumed that Patricia Highsmith had written only 3 Ripley books – since the blurb on the back said "collecting the Ripley novels under one cover". And then I stumbled across "Ripley Under Water" and then in the ‘also by [...]

I love pulp novels. Particularly the hero pulps – The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Spider. So when I saw “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on the bookshop shelf with its distressed cover and the sadly slightly camp depiction of Lester Dent (on the UK cover). I had to buy it. [amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]