This joy was specifically to mop up films I had never seen from – ahem – the canon so I feel more confident when I slag them off/talk anout them. Note, that is more confident, I can currently slam down a nicely nuanced argument about why […]

Now I ranted on Pepsi Max a couple of weeks ago (and no-one responded to its Maxiness). But now there is Pepsi Max Twist Lemon & Lime. It tastes, unsurprisingly, of copper sulphate. But it is the Max philosophy that I find amusing. Yet again we […]

A weird listening moment while walking jetlagged round Seattle, listening to “Same Old Brand New You” by A1 and realising OMG it’s about BLAIR!!!!!
Here’s proof!
I can still remember the time you were there
When I needed to ho[…]

‘I wish there was an Upper Crust here’
Edinburgh Aiport yesterday, on discovering that there was bugger all food to be had for breakfast in the departure lounge.
* ooh look – it’s another Freaky Trigger series that I’ll […]

Phoneboxes around the country have started advertising what promises to be ITV’s new version of Ice Warriors*. The idea behind it is quiet simply a wrong headed attempt to rip-off Strictly Come Dancing, the almost (but crucially not quite) impr[…]

1. Clothes. I’m a middle aged man who pays less attention to clothes than just about anyone: but I have never seen so many unappealing looking old people at any gig. The audience was 100% white, as far as I can tell, maybe 80% male, with lots o[…]

After the shocking revelation below that the Who Should I Vote For website is mere Lib Dem propaganda (despite claims otherwise here). It struck me that we could do a similar kind of questionaire and be much more impartial. So here is the Freaky Trig[…]

I wondered.
So I asked:
www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com
and in the space of 23 simple questions it told me I should vote Lib Dem. It did not ask me anything about the economy beyond if we should join the Euro, and nothing on House Of Lords reforms. Perh[…]

Stressed PM turns to cheese
No, not a radical world domination plan wherein the modern day equivalent to Goldfinger has a ray which can literally turn world leaders into cheese. Rather a small story about how we can deal with stress with cheese. Good[…]

China is heaving a collective sigh of relief today* as it appears that the Great Wall Of China can be seen with the naked eye from space after all. Of course when they say naked eye, they mean an eye behind at least one inch of reinforced plastiglass[…]