Thoughts of a Bearded Gent – A Blog by Jodi Mullen

Just a quick post about a new blog I set up recently, All The Heavy Lifting. As the site blurb says, All The Heavy Lifting is a blog about Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, Paleo living and general fitness, although in recent weeks it has taken a strong weightlifting direction as this is really where my interests lie. I [...]

Stuck inside on a very rainy afternoon today, I decided on a whim to give Thomas Was Alone, an indie platformer recently released on PSN, a spin. Thanks to the wonder of Sony’s Playstation Plus service, Thomas Was Alone has been available on PS3 and PS Vita for free for a month or so from [...]

Over the last few weeks I have been devouring sports on TV, at the expense of some of my other pastimes. There’s been plenty of football, of course, with my team, Spurs, seemingly entering their traditional late season decline but I’ve also been watching the European Weightlifting Championships on Eurosport, which have sadly now come to [...]

I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite over the last couple of days. The original Bioshock is one of my favourite games of this generation and the second was pretty solid too, after a shaky start, so I’ve been very much looking forward to the third game, while doing my best to really avoid by exposed to [...]

The sixth issue of Ghost Cult Magazine, an online ‘zine released in PDF format that covers extreme music pushing the boundaries of modern heavy metal, was released earlier this week. I’m a regular contributor to Ghost Cult, and have written about it before on this blog, but the design work and the effort our editor [...]

So clearly I have been slacking at blogging again. In lieu of some actual meaningful content, here’s a selection of the awesome stuff I have been listening to. Riverside – Shrine of New Generation Slaves Progressive rock/metal from Poland. This quieter number is quite restrained compared to the rest of the album but I really [...]

Initial thoughts on the Playstation Vita’s impressive hardware and operating system, with a minor gripe about memory card prices.

Hmmm, 0kay I’ve really been slacking on blogging in 2013. Over a month since my last post, not good enough. Not nearly good enough. I’ll rectify that over the coming month but in the meantime, here’s some pictures of Izzy, my parents’ new puppy who I got to see at the weekend. She’s about 4 [...]

After a pretty hectic week at work, I popped along to see Django Unchained at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh. Apparently the Cameo is one of only five cinemas in the UK to show the movie via the medium of 35mm film, Quentin Tarantino’s preferred choice, rather than digital, though only at limited screenings. Happily, [...]

I received plenty of books for Christmas this year, the old paper kind as well as the Kindle-friendly variety. The picture above is what I’m currently working my way through. Gary Taubes – Why We Get Fat Umberto Eco – The Prague Cemetary Richard Morgan – Broken Angels Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms William Davis [...]