Monthly Archives: May 2020

Hard boiled I quite like the so-called hard boiled fiction of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and so on. Very often, a young male character is referred to as a “gunsel”. In one book, it is explained that this means a … Continue reading →

The Wizard Of Oz A friend of mine says her favourite film is The Wizard Of Oz. She was telling me the other day that the Tarkovsky film Stalker mirrors TWOZ, even down to the black and white bits at … Continue reading →

I get very cross sometimes when people continue to make stupid mistakes, even when they know they are wrong. Here are just a few: “Princess Diana” Diana Spencer died at the age of 36. At no time in her life … Continue reading →