Carl Lewis has pulled out of our 10k race in Austin next Saturday. He must have found out I was running – even though I haven’t filled in a registration form for the inappropriately named “Carl Lewis 10k”. I managed to run three whole kilometres yesterday – maybe he saw me on the hoof and […]

So I didn’t get a Lincoln Town Car. But I did buy a shiny new Saab 900 Turbo. It’s not particularly new (1985), it certainly doesn’t shine, and the turbo doesn’t work. If someone who worked for Saab saw it, they’d probably chisel off the Saab badge. So in reality, I have a 900. No

Go to some bars. Drink. Go to the Ritz. Play pool. Play table football, and lament the American custom of using three men on the goal-keeping rod. Refuse to call it Foosball. Play air hockey, and note with drunken interest that the air hockey world championship is coming up in Vegas soon, and wonder how