



Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 12 You know the Michael Frayn parody-shakespeare cocktail party?

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 12 Listening to "Lonely Avenue", the Ben Folds/Nick Hornby album from 2010. The first track "A Working Day" is about the emotional instability of a writer, written presumably from Hornby's experience. I was struck by the line "some guy on the net thinks I suck and he should know, he's got his own blog"

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 11 Great to see Bungle from Rainbow enjoying the match.

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 11 Scholar Hans Platzer has assembled a table of all the farting in medieval literature.

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 10 "Hedda Gabler". Ibsen's great play. What's it about? Cleavage, mostly.

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 9 Roses are red
So is Carnation

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 9 "... in the voice of ..." ugh


Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 7 Some editors are crow. Some are crower than that. But only one is the crowest.

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 6 Snow White and the Seven Chords

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 4 Either this, from the BBC Sport website, is a typo for "Listen Live from 17:45", or else the Beeb is saying: "you don't care what happens in the first half of this match, and neither do we".

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 4 I think you're forgetting ... the EMPIRE OF BATHS

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 4 Does this book teach you how to hypnotise ... owls?

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jul 2 Read as a sentence this sends a rather grim message.


Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jun 28 Elvis Costello sequel project.

Adam Roberts@adamroberts· Jun 25 It's so hot, I stared at this headline trying to parse it and failing for a good couple of minutes.