New Year's Greetings

"and I'll send you a New Year's Kiss, and

I hope you remember me like this..."

Wishing all bloggers a New Year of fabulous experiences, epoch-shattering plays, happy home lives and tumultuous wonderment.

Looking forward to: The new series' of The Wire and Curb; The Zombies and The Boosh; the small business of our wedding

Listening: Flight Of The Conchords radio series (thanks Joy n' Neil! but why did Brian become Murray?); Burial - Untrue; LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver; Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight; Roisin Murphy - Overpowered

Underwhelmed by: Extras - It felt like a sixth-form treatise on the meejah, and was just a bit too smug and self-satisfied for my tastes. Larrys' Sanders and David have surely done it better, and earlier.

Quote: The Triffids (sure hope those Sydney shoeshine boys don't keep you on the run)

Resolutions: Writing; alchemy

Happy Christmas from Loz Dee and Cass x

Nice look guys, but Dave Hill's gotta go

I know I published this picture of successful Hull beat exports The Hullaballoos on the blog before, but the guy on the right is still great value. There are some great looks - I'm thinking Bowie, Roxy and the Clash here - and others (white shirts, pudding bowl mullets, homo-erotic bank clerks) that just don't cut it. Great pic tho'.

A McConquest and Plantagenent Burger, please

Could this Barton church, from Anglo-Saxon times, be a protype for the dear old golden arches? A drive-thru and a side order of plague, sir?

The bridge to the north from the graveyard, at dawn

Springsteen - Thunder Road

A conversation I was having with a fellow Springsteen blogger led me to post this - to any doubters, Bruce here really is the boss ...

Grimsby Nativity

Doing the rounds in Grimsby today.