Carter Beats The Devil is one of those “real people in fictional narratives” pieces which are often tedious hack-jobs weaving fact and fiction. And they usually involve the death of President Kennedy. At least CBTD involves the death of a[…]

Is Bugs Bunny funny? I ask because it strikes me that his mixture of sass, insouciance and hyper-active bluster is much more dated than that of many of his Looney Tunes brethren. This was borne out by his lacklustre turn in Looney Tunes: Back In Acti[…]

is it tempting fate to delightedly yell “haha in yr face orthodox medical science”?
Ans = yes, since there’s a lot still to be surmounted and my mum remains fairly ill BUT she regained consciousness unexpectedly on monday night an[…]

(Editor’s Note: This write up by Grumpy Pete does not reflect the views of rest of the Freaky Trigger gang, who enjoyed it enormously, shambles or no, but were too bone idle to blog about it – NYLPM Ed.)
The gang from Freakytrigger went a[…]

Vote Beaker the word went, and we did, and it worked! Science has been served.[…]

HORROR HOTEL
There are plenty of television shows modeled around the ideea of Holidays From Hell. However none of them yet have use dthe sobriquet Horror Hotel, which is just as well because it is a real place in Sri Lanka.
After getting off a long f[…]

The Eurodance Encyclopaedia: A fine site – detailed and fun but not comprehensive. For instance – where is Dr Bombay?! Though perhaps I shouldn’t ask. But the absence of Alcazar is puzzling. The site does, however, feature a band ca[…]

The Oink! Song: something to amuse you while you wait for our thrilling reportage from the Popjustice Music Prize. Oink! was a humour – toilet humour, if we’re being (nose) picky (geddit) – comic from the mid-80s. The first issue ca[…]

2000 AD has another crack at the US market, this time with the might of DC backing it up. The prospects look as good as they could be (i.e. adequate) but it’s interesting that the interview barely mentions the one key difference between 2000 ma[…]

Wimbledon Station at 00:09
…the magical time, at a deserted Wimbledon train station, when all the tickets machines have reset themselves in unison, all ready for me to renew my week’s travelcard, instead of having to queue in the mayhem t[…]