Wes Phillips

It occurs to me that in the three years I've been posting Friday cat blogging, I have never photographed Bagheera asleep. That wary look of hers is as close to complacent as she gets.

Now Rolling Stone has noticed the loudness">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidel… wars.

Well, if you're tired of being jolly, you could go see No Country For Old Men, which will counteract any amount of Whooville saccharine. John Patterson has a good">http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2230352,00.html"… time with the Coen brothers.

The Beeb censored Shane MacGowan's "Fairytale of New York" for its use of a slur.
Sam Leith argueshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2CF13YVN1JHF5Q…; that Auntie mistook a slur for a swear-word—an unforgivable sin in the maidenly world of journalism.

If you're tired of talking to your relatives during this festive season, may I suggest you watch Stardusthttp://www.stardustmovie.com/">Stardust; together? It came out on DVD last week and The Wire doesn't resume broadcast until January 6. Best of all—almost nobody in your family has seen it—unless I've hectored them into seeing it.

Confused about widescreen aspect ratios? I certainly am.Widescreen">http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/lobby.htm">Widescreen Museum sets us straight.

Indexes may be at the back of the book, but a good one can be the difference between a good book and a great one. Enid Stubin remembershttp://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/735">remembers; her stint at the Sydney Wolfe Cohen Associates indexing service.