Since I’m a Tim Burton nut (as I’m sure some of you are), I’m very interested in picking the brains of this most unusual director. So I though I’d give you some more (burtonian) food for thought. I’m thinking about your health so on the short movie menu today we have a main course that…

I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train…

It’s fairly powerful this concept of poetry. So powerful that it only takes one person to say in order for most people to run as far as they can. 2 vowels and 4 consonants: this is what we’re afraid of, bored of, appalled by and sometimes annoyed by. But why is that? Is it the…