The league is called 'Major League Eating' and this is a report on NBC Sports. Nice. Perhaps we Brits should also celebrate July 4th too - independence from a country which would set up a commercial competitive eating league! Although we do have eating contests, none are given the, er, 'respectability' of professional league status. I'm not looking down on any of it, far from it - if I had a 'talent' such as his and could earn $10K in 10 minutes I'd definitely give it a try :o)

This really makes me appreciate the fact that although Neil Gaiman's talents are many and splendid, singing is not at the top of the list :o)

I can read a whole page of a book while distracted and thinking of something entirely different, then realise the reading hasn't sunk in at all, so then have to go back and re-read it... sometimes several times. I definitely don't multi-task well at all.

Following on from my earlier comment, I've now written a poem for parents of teenagers called 'Get the F--- out of Bed':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Kxal89xdI

If Samuel L Jackson calls, I'll let you know!

I use my real name, but it's a name I selected for myself because I changed my name a long time ago. One of the criteria for selecting my surname was that the .com domain name should still be available. Consequently my email address is very easy to guess!