We weren’t planning on going out for dinner last night, and we certainly weren’t planning on going to Temasek. Truth be told, out first choice of the evening – a cheapo sushi place – had just closed and this was the next nearest choice. What a serendipitous decision!
You know a restaurant is pretty good by [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Review’
January 24, 2008
Restaurant Review: Temasek
January 13, 2008
Movie Review: Freaks (1932)
The movie Freaks was recommended to me as being a “disturbing” movie but it is disturbing only in the mildest way possible. Infamous for its use of disabled actors, the movie was banned in the UK for 30 years – partially for its murderous plotline, but mostly (I suspect) for showing so many deformities on screen.
I [...]
September 19, 2007
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management
I own a copy (or rather, most of a copy) of the 1898 edition of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. It is missing its index and front cover. In the parlance of the book trade, the remaining pages are very “foxed”. Also wolved, beared and weaseled.
However, some blessed soul has put the whole thing [...]
August 17, 2007
“Idiocracy”
Go. See. This. DVD.
I have seen the future and it is STUUUUUPIIIIID!
IDIOCRACY!
