Answer to a cry for help

Turns out RSS feeds are hard to cope with. So I’ve just made a few changes to the blog to make it easier for everyone.

If you’d like to get into this feeds thing, get yourself an account with Bloglines. Then, whenever you see a feed you’d like to subscribe to, just click the “Subscribe with Bloglines” button next to the feed and you should be able to add it your account’s list of feeds.

Let me know if you have any problems!

US TV

Third-episode verdict: Brotherhood

BrotherhoodBrotherhood (which I now belatedly realise is probably a bad play on words: brotherhood, brother hood. It’s about gangsters. Get it?) has improved a bit since its first episode, which was a bit of mish-mash.

The trouble is it’s now “Eat your greens” television: not desperately enjoyable, but very worthy, requiring a good deal of concentration, and talking about Really, Really Important Subjects. It wants to be The Wire crossed with the dirty local politics version of The West Wing, but doesn’t quite have the writing to make it on either count.

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