I know it is lazy blogging, and that I should be commenting on things like the middle east or attacking the patronizing farce that is tonight’s ‘Children in Need’, but I can’t resist sending you here. Entitled ‘James Bond Was Wrong – Don’t shake Your Martini’, its a fairly serious look at the mixology and politics of the famous drink. Surely this is proof that everything in film, and indeed all art, must be semiotically analyzed with the utmost seriousness. I must admit that I find it oddly fascinating. Then again, as the article says, ‘Deconstructing what a fictional book and film character drinks is slightly absurd, but so is taking drinking advice from a fictional character’. Indeed, my tipple of choice is usually beer, something fleming sneered at, and I’m trying to keep off alcohol these days anyway, but the rarified, precise, elitist culture this article tries to evoke strikes me as curious.