If Rachel wakes up, will I disappear?
At the weekend I went to see Glee Live at the O2 - the live show of the TV series Glee, essentially a concert by the cast with bits of dialogue in between songs, and some pre-recorded dialogue on a Continue Reading
Prejudice and Pride: Singing Jane Austen’s Song
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a husband. There is a Borges story called Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, in Continue Reading
What are babies, exactly?
Interacting with babies is weird, especially if you are the person they used to live inside. Obviously what they are, technically, is very small people. But at various different times, and stages, I Continue Reading
Fausterella and other stories
Katy's Brief Guide To Writing and Publishing: - Have ideas in your head - Convert them into words - Realise they are not the right words. - Repeat step 2 until they become the right Continue Reading
Abracadabra
Last weekend I went for dinner, with Choler, at a restaurant called Abracadabra. It was an Internet discovery. I'd googled for interesting London restaurants and found several I already knew about, Continue Reading
Trawling the net for fatherly fish
Father's Day is a week on Sunday and I'm going to use that fact as a vague way to tie together the fun things I've found on the net recently. Such as this tiny yet functional firearm, for the Continue Reading
Lolling around
David Mitchell - the comedian and columnist, not the writer (whose book Cloud Atlas I have just started but abandoned in favour of Agatha Christie, though I'm sure it's very good) - anyway, in case Continue Reading
A risotto analogy
Ok, imagine you are a judge on one of those celebrity cooking shows. Got it? Good. Let's say that you're tasting two tomato risottos, one made by Andy and one made by Caroline. Andy's risotto is Continue Reading
Sense and Sentimentality
"Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell." Erica Jong The male writer VS Naipaul is in the news this morning - well, a bit of the news - because he was Continue Reading