Saturday, January 30, 2016

The Finger Points Outwards - No. 117

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BASKETBALL: Someone campaigned for San Antonio forward Kawhi Leonard to be voted into the NBA All-Star Game, which he was, by creating th...
Monday, January 18, 2016

The Wooden Finger Five – January 2016

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5. Midnight’s Mirror – Mystery Jets This was one of those tunes where ten seconds in I felt like I had heard it before. More than that, ...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Watching the EPL Live ... Or More Often Not

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  I enjoyed the rare luxury of watching a chunk of the last round of English Premier League matches before the New Year, as I had time of...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Too Young To Be An Avenger: The All-New, All-Different Avengers

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“YOU’RE A JERK!” That’s what the new, teenage Ms Marvel shouts at the new, teenage Nova on the very first page of Marvel’s ‘ All-New, All-D...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

The Best of Everything in 2015

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Best Book: ‘Misbehaving’ – Richard Thaler. ‘Between The World And Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which I’m reading currently, is getting the most...

The Finger Points Outwards - No. 116

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FILM: The New Yorker interviews an author who has recently done a whole lot of research on ‘Star Wars’ FILM: And again on ‘Star Wars’ ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

The Wooden Finger Five – December 2015

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5.Blackstar – David Bowie It took about fifteen years but, with ‘The Next Day’ album and this track, David Bowie has finally got his cre...
Friday, November 27, 2015

The Finger Points Outwards - No. 115

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BOOKS/FILM: The most extreme cases where the book was better than the movie . BASKETBALL: The Golden State Warriors are so good they a...