http://www.kayleighjmoore.com Coffee, Cream and Pink Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:41:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently I've been on a mission to injure myself over the last week (unintentionally) and now my index and middle fingers on my left hand encased in an inch of dressing.  Going to A&E with a burn is a lot worse than going with a broken wrist. So, typing has become ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/07/23/ouch/ I can officially say I'm an artist now as I've sold my first painting. Excuse the rubbish picture. Out of the lot I put in the comic book shop, I had hoped Rorschach would go first. http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/07/10/not-just-a-writer/ Reviewing this particular graphic novel is tough.  It's so famous and acclaimed that a lot of reviews, essays and poorly spelled praises have already been written about it.  There are also the rules that surround it. 1. When reading Watchmen, restrict to one chapter a night. 2. When telling someone who hasn't ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/07/06/watchmen/ It's Sunday the 29th of June and I'm only a quarter of the way through this book, but I've got to start this review now. Palahniuk is a writer who's just too good to be legal. He's very much a scrapbook writer, taking bits of stories from ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/07/06/rant/ I got hooked onto Wilkinson through his first book of short stories, Memoirs of the Messed Up Minds, so when I found that his next book was to deviate from his dark sense of humour and somewhat taboo subject matter, I was a touch worried. ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/29/me-1-arthritis-0/ ... by reporting on his own murders. The journalist, Vlado Taneski, is accused of raping, torturing and killing three elderly women in the south-western town of Kicevo. Macedonian police began to suspect him after he included details in his reports that they had not made public. Clever little sod.  Sick and ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/26/journalist-makes-his-own-news/ This is from the author of Atomised, which is apparently slap yourself stupid fantastic.  Where I can, I try to read the book after the one that made an author famous as I am interested in new writers but I have an allergy to hype.  I refused Firefly and Battlestar ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/26/the-possibility-of-an-island/ Harvey, the headstrong and very 'teenage' labradoodle, has now had three dog training lessons now and just now we had a bit of a break through.  He's managed to connect two commands, come and heel, into one fantastic response where he comes, turns on his own and sits close at ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/20/clever-dog/ In further tasteless news, we have this: A street-sweeping truck has sucked a dog up through its bristles on a New York street, leaving its horrified owner holding nothing but the lead. "It spun me around, and as it spun me around, I caught a last glimpse of her. I was devastated. I ... http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/16/sucked-up/  A mother who was intoxicated during her labor at a Polish hospital gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the country's adult drunk-driving limit. That is one drunk baby. Isn't our world a special, special place? http://www.kayleighjmoore.com/2008/06/12/drunk-baby/