book news

THE GOOD: Roger Zelazny's final novel, discovered in his papers, due Feb '09

THE BAD: Prophet Muhammad novel scrapped -- publication postponed 'indefinitely'.

THE YAY!: Hugo Award winners announced

cookery! (for people who don't enjoy cooking)

Link promised to ladymoonray

chocolate cake in five minutes. Cake-in-a-cup. Nuked cake-in-a-cup.

A day of Culture, yeah

Hayward, boating!
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

Met ladymoonray at the Hayward and did Culture:
Psycho Buildings at the Hayward. (Good review here, Times.) ( blow by blow review )

Off to Feng Sushi for lunch (sea bass sashimi and x-ray salad: pomegranate seeds and chopsticks do not mix well). Then next door to Le Pain Quotidien for dessert: espresso chocolate tart and coffee. (K had raspberry tart, debased with dairy).

Poked heads into the Oxo Gallery for exhibition of new prints of Pink Floyd album covers etc. Uninspiring.

The plan was to head for the Design Museum and see the Tim Walker exhibition, but we failed to pass Zakudia -- where it was happy hour, all cocktails £5, and we could stare out at the increasingly vile weather, whitecaps on the Thames, onset of torrential rain. Raspberry royale fab, blackberry caipirinha even more so. By the time we'd finished, the sun had come out. And so home.

In other news, I bought a smelly light-up thing in the Hayward shop and am getting grief from Shiva for bringing it home. Bwa ha ha.