With great regret I have decided that, for the first time in five years, I won’t be taking part in NaNoWriMo this year.

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Here’s a link to a thoughtful piece from the BBC website by Nicholas Parsons, examining the role of radio comedy in the national discourse.

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John Hodgman on BoingBoingTV: SPAMasterpiece Theatre - the dramatization of “true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you - what we call SPAM.”

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Allow me to introduce you, via the wonders of the modern Internet, to this talented woman, yoga teacher Esther Ekhart from Bantry in Ireland.

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This is a sad post to write - yesterday we heard the news that Geoffrey Perkins, the incredibly talented BBC comedy supremo, had been killed in a road accident.

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Here’s a cautionary tale about how a life of crime can be turned to the good. This forger of letters by Noel Coward, Dorothy Parker and even Humphrey Bogart has now found success with an original work telling her story.

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A few years ago, the process of reclaiming the Carry On oeuvre was launched in fine fashion. No less an institution than The Barbican Cinema in London decided to have a retrospective of the full 30 films.

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It’s a fine moment when cult TV from your childhood and cult comics artists from your teens and 20s come together. It’s just regrettable that the Beijing Olympics are also involved.

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On the subject of crazy, illegal art projects.. you’d have to go some way to beat the one detailed in the new documentary Man on Wire. But this film reveals a pathos completely unintended by the artist at the point of creation.

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Artists Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto, and six of their friends, noticed an architectural anomaly in the giant shopping mall being built in their town - Providence, Rhode Island, USA. As the project progressed, it became clear that this added up to “750 square feet of underutilized space inside of the mall.”

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