The fear of being helpless in the face of your own rapidly approaching demise is already becoming a recurring theme of this list. Usually though, there’s a malicious influence involved somewhere, a giant maneating lizard or an axe murderer, for[…]

Jet + Girls Aloud = Luv: It’s like Lionel Vinyl read my mind![…]

Real People wanted
Upcoming opportunities to get on telly in misguided belief that fame and fortune awaits? Or at least, that’s the sell, it seems to me. Do people beleive it? Do people not just go for a laugh or for a good day out (especially […]

(Caution: not for the softcore)
Alignment: AD&D employed a notorious form of psychometric profiling, the Alignment System, whereby every living thing’s personality could be summarised by a phrase like “Lawful Neutral” or &#822[…]

Oh no not again: people can grumble all they like about cinema adaptations of books but they are entirely harmless compared to the time-wasting chasm of ineptitude that is comics adapted from books or plays. I remember the ‘good old days’[…]

“I only read it for the constitutional debate”: best thing about this story is the name of the German erotic magazine in question.[…]

Was this the world’s first MP3 blog? I rather think it was. A regular on the NYLPM sidebar years ago, I was reminded of Euroranch during a conversation with the charming Mr Woebot last night. It used to have a separate and very enthusiastic dow[…]

The Bestest Player in the Whole Wide World Ever!
FIFA’s annual popularity contest nears conclusion. The list is here, and FIFA’s news story on the list is worth a post of itself. The event will be imbued with a ‘Uuique tone’. […]

This mornings epic battle of Dave Boyle vs Victoria Derbyshire on Five Live was foiled mainly by London traffic (we assume). Nevertheless if argument success is based on the amount the host flirts with the guest, then Dave won hands down. To be fair […]

Forwards, ever forwards?
Loyalty of football fans not beyond breaking point, he said, expectantly wanting the backlash to start.
There’s one school of though that view that on one side there are ‘others’ and on the other there are &[…]