The beauty of “And then I woke up” comes to every nine year old child at the same time I think. It is a combination of the following factors:
a) Some awareness of classic KidZor Lit which uses this trope (Hello Alice In No-Fun-Derland and[…]

Actually. I told a slight porkie below. There is one film which could be said to be in the Pink Panther canon which I have a degree of fondenss for. And that is Inspector Clouseau. A rarely seen entry into the series where Clouseau is sent to London […]

THE WEE PAPA GIRL RAPPERS: Wee Rule
Is it lame to like a song because it has Wee in the title. Of course not. Luckily, that is not the real reason why Wee Rule, well, rules. Though my description of why Wee Rules rules is partially about the idea of […]

I can’t say I have ever really cared for the Pink Panther films, possibly due to seeing them in probably the worst order (Trail first). Whilst the law of diminishing returns was clearly embedded in the series, there are some nice gags for five […]

the office text-scanner was jus now caught helpfully changing the adjective “anti-scientific” into “anti-semitic”, a statement of moral equivalence that presumably reflects its hard-wired beliefs – viz that not knowing m[…]

So when I left you, Europe were up two games in the Weber Cup. They maintained this form through Saturday, and started the first session on Sunday at an impressive 12-10. Indeed the only part of their game that was looking shaky were the Baker Games […]

In December, Blog 7 will be the blog of endings – final chapters, grand finales, fade-outs, fake-outs, and all things terminal. Why? Well, partly because it’s the last month of 2005, a year a lot of us will be happy to see the back of, an[…]

Now it’s officially really actually December we can all start listening to Christmas songs. There had been some talk of doing a flood of Christmas posts on here, but it’s been pointed out to me that I have a list of best tracks ever to fi[…]