Joe
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- BLOCK GEAR – WE'RE BRICKING IT | fast is good, but outrageous is even better
- Inky Fingers : Words and Performance
- Language Log
- Now & Then Delicious
- Rhyming Couplets
- Separated by a Common Language
- The Language of Food
- Tonto McDuff on Blipfoto
- Total Food Geeks Edinburgh
- You, Me & Charlie | Coming Soon
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Introduction | I started this blog for myself; simply as somewhere to bring together all of the poetry, mainly haiku, and other short-form writings I had accumulated over the years, that now lay scattered over various notebooks and at least three computers. The decision to write new material, to comment on and recommend things that inspire me, and to throw the blog open to the world, came later, not much later admittedly, but later. After all, what is a blog for if not to inflict your crazed ramblings on the world? And so, inspired by my (admittedly more talented) friends and colleagues Edible Rose and Tonto McDuff I shall hit the “Publish” button... |
| Favorite Movies | Shakespeare in Love, Local Hero, Une hirondelle a fait le printemps, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, How to Make an American Quilt, Lost In Translation, Gregory's Girl, A River Runs Through It. Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Seven Pounds, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Elephant Man, Up in the Air, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Notting Hill, Mallrats, Love Actually, The Straight Story, Pretty Woman, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Erin Brockovich, The Station Agent, Some Like It Hot, Juno, Driving Miss Daisy, Stand by Me, One Fine Day, Sleeping with the Enemy, Up, Jungle Book, Coming to America, WALL·E, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Blade Runner, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, 101 Dalmatians, Philadelphia, Once Upon a Time in America, Tampopo, The Usual Suspects, Ice Cold in Alex, Groundhog Day, Badlands, Manhattan, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion King, Dead Poets Society, It's a Wonderful Life, A Beautiful Mind, Things We Lost In The Fire, The Way, Saving Mr Banks, and so many more... |
| Favorite Books | A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, King Rat, Schindler's Ark, Shogun, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Treasure Island, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Golden Gate, all the Harry Potters, and so many more... |