Ben Oliver

film — 12 December 2024

A Charlie Brown Christmas

I must confess I’m coming at this one from a weird angle, with no nostalgia or sentimentality attached to it at all. In fact I think I only saw this one time about 20 years ago.

technology — 12 December 2024

I made a vim plugin that finds all your jekyll posts, lists them, lets you select one, then creates a link right there in your current markdown file.

film — 10 December 2024

Our Town

Frequent flyers here might have noticed I just read the novel Shark Heart. Well in that book the husband, Lewis, is a playwright and theatre teacher who stages a production of Our Town. He is unable to continue before rehearsals are finished, so has to watch the final play from the audience, unable to contain himself.

book — 09 December 2024

Shark Heart

A woman, Wren, discovers her husband, Lewis, has a rare genetic mutation that means he is slowly turning into a shark.

film — 07 December 2024

¡Three Amigos!

There’s a Christmas tree place near me called ‘Tree Amigos’ and going past it I realised I’d never actually seen Three Amigos.

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