Daniel Etherington

Well, Britain has just experienced its second horrendous non-summer in a row. Last year it rained pretty much non-stop for most of July and August, and this year we’ve had the “most overcast August since records began”. Great.
I remember seeing bizarre futuristic mock-ups in a newspaper a few years ago of what Britain would look [...]

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Back to popular culture, rather than eco-despair or whatever.
My big question is: where the heck is Planetary #27?
If, like me, you’re a (relatively) mature, (relatively) intelligent consumer of comic books chances are you may have read Planetary, created by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday more than a decade ago, with #1 cover dated [...]

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I seem to have lost my blogging mojo. Keep reading stuff in the paper and whatnot and thinking “Hm, I should rant about that on my blog”, but it doesn’t seem to happen. So much shite in the world, it’s hard to keep up a commentary on it. Christmas was nice though.

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Cycling in London, it sometimes feels like the mass of moving bodies – human or vehicular – in town have their own sort of biorhythms. Indeed, I’m sure traffic specialists would have a term for the varying ebbs and flows of urban movement. Anyway, today just felt especially ridiculous, a real Stupid-day. Particularly on the [...]

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We’ve been trying to cut visits to Sainsbury’s out of our lifestyle. Not only is it a just plain hideous, stressful experience, it freaks me out to see all the food packaging. Fran wanted some meat the other day. It was bad enough they have barely any organic, but the packaging was absurd. As a [...]

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“On 21 August this year, the North-west Passage was opened to ships not armed with icebreakers for the first time since records began.”
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3021309.ece

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According to Vodafone, who are presenting this message with a really daft advert involving billions of tiny cogs and things falling from the sky like rain, or something like that. Not only is a it a dumb, crappy advert, and one that gets my weird fiddly object phobia going, its message is also just unutterable [...]

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Is still doing my head in somewhat. I’ve got two friend requests sitting in my inbox – one from an old friend who I haven’t had any contact with for about two years after we slowly fell out, one from the brother of a childhood friend (who I had a really falling out with).
In the [...]

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According to the Times today that’s how many we’re facing, presumably in Britain, because of the weather this summer – loads of rain, very little sun. A crop scientist from Bayer is quoted saying “It’s slug heaven this year. These figures are unprecedented. We have never seen such high numbers before. Our counts are up [...]

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Although I’m probably not actually middle-aged (despite being approximately half way to the average life expectancy of a British male), the concept of a mid-life crisis is something I’m very much starting to relate to. I spend most of my time either angry or depressed, or if neither of those things, simply frustrated (with my [...]

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