Author: Paul

With all the emphasis on the Oscars, did anyone remember the Razzies?  These are the awards given to the worst performances and productions.  These awards are the antithesis of the Oscars.  This year "Catwoman" won several awards at the Razzies and the surprise of the evening was that Halle Berry was there to receive her…

ProBlogger is running a series of articles or posts on how to keep first time readers coming back to your blog.  The latest installment is titled "How to Keep First Time Readers to your Blog – Part III".  I didn’t realise that simple things like enabling an ’email to a friend’ feature and linking to…

Well, the awards ceremony was held last night (South African time).  As many people predicted, "Million Dollar Baby" and "The Aviator" did well, scooping up numerous awards.  For a full list of the winners (thanks to Internet Movie Database), read on … Update:If you want to see the nominees and the winners in context, CNN…

For the heck of it, here is a list of the nominees for tonight’s Oscars.  Have a look here and here for links to blogs commenting in the Oscars.

I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that…

The normally hidden world of gay Hasidic and Orthodox Jews has been uncovered in Trembling Before God – a controversial documentary that has just opened at the US box office. Many of the film’s subjects appear in silhouette, with their voices disguised, because they feared repercussions if their identities were revealed. This is how an…

Carte Blanche, an actuality and current affairs television programme, has returned to the issue of canned lion hunting about eight years after it first exposed this frightening industry in 1997.  John Webb (Carte Blanche presenter): “In 1997, Carte Blanche broadcast “The Cook Report??. It blew the lid on canned lion hunting. The public was outraged…

G and I were privileged to see Gordon Smith last night.  This Scottish medium has been hailed as "The UK’s most accurate medium". Gordon Smith is an astoundingly accurate medium. He is renowned for his ability to give exact names of people, places and even streets. The seventh son of a seventh son, Gordon travels…