Shhh! I've been reading

Book cover illustrators prove they have a distinct lack of imagination when books about quiz culture with the word "brain" in the title are in need of their artisanal genius.

So I got my copy of Ken Jenning's tale of triumph and trivia culture dissection Brainiac the other day and promptly read it as fast as someone with an all-consuming quiz, no wait, trivia obsession could.

The mind-numbingly detailed New York Review of Books-style is soon to follow (yes, I was making notes as I went along and they were many, but let's just say everyone who has ever loved trivia should read. It's their bag. My bag, your bag, perhaps not a Louis Vuitton bag, though a very nice one that everyone should delve into.) Trivia whores will find things they never knew about their particular satchel.

Oh, and it is completely different from Marcus Berkmann's Brain Men (the other book shown alongside Brainiac above), yet very similar. You'll understand when you get round to finishing it.

The sked
Part 2 of the BQC report is coming, so is QLL first match report (well, once we've played it), Millionaire analysis (when I see the repeat tomorrow afternoon) and hopefully, I was also going to do a links round-up, but was slightly disappointed when I missed the chance to remind everyone of Talk Like a Pirate Day (it was on September 19). All this is coming, I promise.

Tonight
I'm going to see Mogwai at the Royal Albert Hall. It will only be the 29th time I've seen them.

Now for some obligatory band worship: All hail to the 'Gwai. For they are gods among musicians.

'Tis a pity that Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait didn't come out this weekend instead of the next then we could have got a glorious double whammy. Sigh, never mind. It would have been beyond divine. Ultra-transcendental. And so on into the oblivion of a guitar blizzard or three.

At least I am getting out of the house/flat. I bought World Poker Tournament for my mobile the other day and I have figured that I have already spent in the region of ten hours playing it. Check, check, call, raise, raise, RAISE!!! I would say it's like crack cocaine, but it's not really is it? There are degrees of addiction and degrees of addiction and physical dependency will surely not arise (he says, hoping that these words will strengthen his resolve)