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Website launched on 19th August 1998  Re-launched 30th July  2008 - Latest update 25th December 2011

BATMAN – ARKHAM REBORN *****

BATMAN – DEAD TO RIGHTS ****

BATMAN – EVOLUTION ***

 

THE BLACK KNIGHT AND CAPTAIN BRITAIN ***

CAPTAIN AMERICA REVIEWS

CAPTAIN AMERICA JOINS THE AVENGERS *** 

CAPTAIN AMERICA – MAN OUT OF TIME ****

ULTIMATE CAPTAIN AMERICA ***

CAPTAIN BRITAIN – FIVE TICKETS TO TERROR *

CAPTAIN BRITAIN – WHEN SLAYMASTER STRIKES *

SPIDERMAN & CAPTAIN BRITAIN – MURDERWORLD **

JOHN CHEEVER – THE SWIMMER *****

JOHNNY CRAIG – THE SEWER *****

 

MIKE GAIGNON – MEN AND MONKEYS * 

 

DOMINIQUE GRANGE – THE MURDERER OF HUNG ***** 

 

D H LAWRENCE – THE BLIND MAN ****

D H LAWRENCE – THE BORDER LINR *****

D H LAWRENCE – THE LAST LAUGH  *****

D H LAWRENCE – SMILE   *****

 

D H LAWRENCE - TICKETS PLEASE *****

 

NEIL GAIMAN – THE COURT *****

 

NEIL GAIMAN THE SANDMAN #1 PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES *****

 

NEIL GAIMAN THE SANDMAN THE DREAM HUNTERS *****

 

JOHN GRINDROD – SHOUTING AT THE TELLY ****

 

BERNIE KRIEGSTIEN – BLIND MAN’S BLUFF ** 

 

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST CRIME STORIES *****

 

ALAN MOORE – I KEEP COMING BACK *****

 

ALAN MOORE – OLD GANGSTERS NEVER DIE *****

 

THERESE MULLIGAN – A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ****

 

TERRY PRATCHETT – DISCWORLD – THE THIEF OF TIME *****

 

ROBERT RANKIN – THE GREATEST SHOW OFF EARTH ***** 

PHILIP PULLMAN – CLOCKWORK *****

 

JOE SIMON AND JACK KIRBY – THE MONEY MAKING MACHINE SWINDLERS *****

 

JACQUELINE SIMPSON GREEN MEN AND WHITE SWANS *****

SPIDERMAN – LIZARD ****

JIM STARLIN – BATMAN – THE CULT *****

JACK VANCE – THE EYES OF THE OVERWORLD *****

GORE VIDAL – LINCOLN *****

 

THE X-FORCE #6 UNDER THE GUN *

 

WEBSITE REVIEWS -  ADD THIS ***** SHETOLDME ****

MY FIRST NATURISTS SWIMMING MEETING Going to the swimming pool  with a group of nudists  

MY POEMS - THE ABYSS WITHIN  BOGHART HOLE CLOUGH BOATING LAKE

BOOK REVIEWS - SUSANNA CLARKE – JONATHON STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL ***** NEIL GAIMAN - THE SANDMAN FOUR - SEASON OF MISTS *****MARK GATTIS – THE VESUVIUS CLUB (GRAPHIC EDITION) ***** DOROTHY NICOLLE – ALL ABOUT PUB SIGNS **** CHARLES PARTINGTON – THE DRAGON DOCTOR’S APPRENTICE *****

ATHEISTIC BIBLE REVIEWS ACTS 7-8  9 10 11 12

PUB SIGN REVIEW - MOTHER MAC’S *****

RESTAURANT REVIEW CHIQUITO

GENERAL ESSAY GUYS WITH CAMERAS Voyeurs pretending to be photographers

D H LAWRENCE POETRY AT THE WINDOW ***** BATS ***** HIBISCUS AND SALVIA FLOWERS **** MAN AND BAT ***** NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH ***** PURPLE AEMONES ***** RABBIT SNARES *****

FILM REVIEWS - BRASSED OFF ***** FOUR LIONS *****  TABLOID *****  TOMMY ***** W **** 

MY LATEST SHORT STORIES - BEAR   DIG  OPERATION DOPPLEGANGER

FILM REVIEWS –HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 2 ****   INTO THE WILD *****  TROLL HUNTER ***** 

BIBLE GOSPELS –   THE EARLY MINISTRY OF JESUS JESUS LEAVES NAZARETH THE KINGDOM OF GOD  WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT THE EARLY MIRACLES OF JESUS THE TRANSFIGURATION HOW JEWISH WAS JESUS? 

APOCRYPHA – THE SONG OF THE THREE HOLY CHILDREN  THE STORY OF SUSANNAH

PUB GLOSSARY A  B C D E TO G H I TO L  M TO O  P TO R  S  T  U TO Z

CULTS THE MOONIES THE WAY INTERNATIONAL 

Short story A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE APOCALYPSE Death has a grievance

Graphic novel reviews - BATMAN – RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

SPIDERMAN – NEW WAYS TO DIE

SUPERMAN – ERADICATION

Essays CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISES

DO PEOPLE OVER-REACT TO MEDIA BAD NEWS REPORTS? 

IF I WAS A GUEST ON COME DINE WITH ME

HOW TO BE A SCIENCE FICTION FAN

HOW TO RUN A PUB QUIZ

WHAT TO EXPECT AT A BEER FESTIVAL

WHEN THE FILM IS DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOK

MY PERSONAL BOOK READING HISTORY

Horror story ONE FEBRUARY 14TH

Essays QUICKSAND SCENES ON TV

THE USES AND ABUSES OF QUOTATIONS

VANDALISM IN THE NAME OF ENVIRONMENTALISM

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY CLASSIC CLOTHING?

WHY NOSTALGIA ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE

POEM – CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’

Book reviews

DAVID BRANDON - DISCOVERING PUB NAMES AND SIGNS  

HUNTER DAVIES – WAINWRIGHT – A BIOGRAPHY

ROB MAGEE –MIDDLETON PUBS  AND THEIR LICENSEES 1737-1993

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD – BARRAYAR

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD – SHARDS OF HONOUR

ALFRED BESTER – THE DEMOLISHED MAN

TRUMAN CAPOTE – BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

TRUMAN CAPOTE – SHORT STORIES

 JOHN JAKES – THE SELLERS OF THE DREAM

M. R. JAMES – O WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU MY LAD

DONALD KINGSBURY – THE MOON GODDESS AND THE SON

D H LAWRENCE – THE LOVELY LADY

D H LAWRENCE – THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER

D H LAWRENCE – THE SHADES OF SPRING

D H LAWRENCE – THE THORN IN THE FLESH

D H LAWRENCE – THE WHITE STOCKING

LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD – THE MOUNTAINS OF MOURNING

LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD – THE VOR GAME

LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD – THE WARRIOR’S APPRENTICE

LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD – THE WEATHERMAN

MICHAEL MOORCOCK – ELRIC

ALAN MOORE – DODGEM LOGIC MAGAZINE

GEORGE ORWELL – THE MOON UNDER WATER

DAN RHODES – ANTHROPOLOGY

ROBERT SILVERBERG – THE DESERT OF BROKEN DREAMS

FILM REVIEWS 

BLACK SWAN *****  

CAPTAIN AMERICA – THE FIRST AVENGER *****

COWBOYS AND ALIENS ***** 

THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES *****

BOOK REVIEWS 

ISAAC ASIMOV – PROFESSION  

ALAN GARNER – MOON OF GOMROTH  

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT  

D H LAWRENCE – A FRAGMENT OF STAINED 

GLASS D H LAWRENCE – GOOSE FAIR 

D H LAWRENCE – SECOND BEST 

D H LAWRENCE – THE SHADOW IN THE ROSE GARDEN 

LARRY NIVEN – FLASH CROWD 

FREDERICK POHL – IN THE PROBLEM PIT  

PUBS IN THE MOVIES   PUBS ON TV  

MANCHRSTER PUB SIGN FEATURES -  INTRODUCTION TO MANCHESTER PUB SIGNS The White Lion  

THE APE AND APPLE 

THE DUCIE BRIDGE 

THE OLD NAG’S HEAD 

THE OLD WELLINGTON INN  

THE OX  

SINCLAIR’S OYSTER BAR  

THE EMPRESS  

LAST ORDERS

THE BLACK FRIAR 

 

THE FRIGATE

 

ESSAYS HOW WE SHOULD ANSWER QUESTIONS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE 

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG – CLIFF RICHARD – LIVING DOLL 

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000  

THE PROS AND CONS OF THE ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET  

IS THERE ANY POINT IN DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT GOD EXISTS? 

 

SHORT STORIES A PHONETIC NIGHT OUT  Romance set around the phonetic alphabet 

HOW I FAILED MY HUMAN BIOLOGY EXAMS Silly story about student life 

THIS MONSTROUS THING CALLED LOVE A monster falls in love with a human girl 

THE BREAKFAST TRIAL – Comedy in which a tourist falls foul of petty but deadly laws in a small principality.

 

FILM REVIEWS – THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES  

BLACK WATER  

DR PHIBES RISES AGAIN 

THE ILLUSIONIST 

I AM NUMBER FOUR 

PRICELESS 

THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY  

THESE ARE THE DAMNED  

WALL-E

HUMOUR MY FAVOURITE MONTY PYTHON COMEDY SKETCHES

JOKE CAPTIONS FOR A PHOTO -

BATMAN – SECRET ORIGINS

THE IDLER BOOK OF CRAP TOWNS

BRIAN ALDISS – NON-STOP

LESTER DEL REY – FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE!

GORDON R DICKSON – THE MORTAL AND THE MONSTER

DAVID DRAKE – TIME SAFARI

PHYLIS EISENSTEIN – IN THE WESTERN TRADITION

THE FANTASTIC FOUR – CIVIL WAR

CHRIS MOULD - FRANKENSTEIN – THE GRAPHIC NOVEL  

THE GREEN LANTERN CHRONICLES #1

PHILLIP JOSE FARMER – THE ALLEY MAN

SUN -TZU – THE ART OF WAR

LORD SHANG – THE BOOK OF LORD SHANG

ESSAYS 

CULTS – THE ALPHA COURSE A cult supported and promoted by mainstream churches

CULTS – PRO ANA Sinister online sect promoting Anorexia as a positive lifestyle and putting many followers in danger of starvation.

THE BEE GEES – NEW YORK MINING DISASTER 1941  A group of doomed, trapped miners pass the time in hope of rescue

THE HAIKU CONTROVERSY  Why few can agree on what non-Japanese Haiku are authentic or not.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER A useful prop for promoting a major spoof religion

WHY I HATE GUITAR HERO Spoof of the popular music game / education guide

WHY I LOVE GRAPHIC NOVELS Why a grown man still reads comics

STORY – ACCEPTANCE SPEECH  A drunken Nobel Peace Prize winner gets out of control

YOUR DAILY HOROSCOPES Send of of daily media star sign readings

Manchester pub sign features

LORD NELSON THE CIRCUS TAVERN  THE FAMOUS PADDY’S GOOSE

THE FRIENDSHIP INN – WERNETH OLDHAM  THE PICCADILLY

THE SWAN WITH TWO NICKS – BOLLINGTON

WHY I CAN’T HELP YOU GET OUT OF YOUR DEBTS – Should someone in bad finance advise others on how to take care of their money?

 

CONTENTS – PUB SIGN FEATURES  New contents sub-category 

FILM REVIEW – I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE

THE DAY I WAS BORN 9/2/1962  The key events on the day I was born February 9th 1962

PUB SIGN FEATURES – GULLIVERS – MANCHESTER  THE MARK ADDY (SALFORD)  THE OLD MONKEY (MANCHESTER)

CLIFF RICHARD – HONKY TONK ANGELS Why a singer banned his own record as obscene

HUMOUR – YOUR DAILY HOROSCOPE What your star signs would say if I wrote them

 SHORT STORY – ACCEPTANCE SPEECH  A drunken Nobel Peace Prize winner receives his award

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPOILER SPACE IN REVIEWS  How not to give away the endings

 

POEM – WE ARE THE GREEN ROOM

book review - H G WELLS – THE SLEEPER AWAKES 

BOTANY BAY AND THE GERMAN U BOAT IN CHORLEY LANCASHIRE – The unlikely sighting of wartime enemy submarine in 2011.

Film reviews - BURLESQUE *  ON TOUR *****

CULT - NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING (NLP) Study of this controversial pseudo-science and its founder's implication in a murder trial. 

Jacques Tati film reviews - JOUR DE FETE ***** MONSIEUR HULOT’S HOLIDAY ***** PARADE ****

BIBLE READINGS BY AN ATHEIST LIST 

Sceptical Atheistic Bible reviews - #GENESIS  1-2 3-5 6-11 12-14 15-18 19-21 22 23-24 25-26 27 28-29 30-31 32-33 34-36 37 38 39-40 41 42 43 44-45 46-47 48-50  Supplementary essays on Genesis - INCONSISTANCIES & CONTRADICTIONS  IN GENESIS   MAJOR CHARACTERS IN GENESIS ARK! 'ARK! WHAT A LARK REVELATION 1 2 3 4 5- 6 7 - 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 -16 17  18 19 20 21 22 Supplementary essays on Revelation  INTRODUCTION THE RAPTURE  #Hosea 1-2 3-6 7-10 11-14  #Joel, #Amos, #Obadiah, #Jonah, (see also HAS ANYONE EVER SURVIVED BEING SWALLOWED BY A WHALE? #Micah, #Nahum, #Habakkuk, #Zephaniah, #Haggai, #Zechariah 1 – 5 6 – 10 11 – 14 #Malachi.#RUTH   #ECCLESIASTES New Testament - #TIMOTHY 1 #TIMOTHY 2 #TITUS #PHILAMON #JAMES #PETER 1 #PETER 2 #JOHN 1 #JOHN 2 #JOHN 3 #JUDE #HEBREWS THE GOSPELS - THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST THE IMMACUATE CONCEPTION NATIVITY – THE VIRGIN BIRTH  JESUS’S CHILDHOOD THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST  THE BAPTISM OF JESUS  

 #THESSALONIANS 1 & 2

THE 400 YEAR GAP BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS

THE NATURE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

RAISING THE DEAD – WAS LAZARUS A ZOMBIE?

WHY AN ATHEIST IS STUDYING THE BIBLE

Film Review - THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU *** 

BARDOLESQUE - A burlesque and poetry cabaret I'm organizing for July 14th in Manchester

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