“These people have no televisual persona, do they? They just should not be on television!”
A Quiz:
a) Who said that?
b) About whom?
c) On which programme last night?
Answers in the comments box please. All shall be revealed later today&#8[…]

VANISHING LONDON: The W1 Logo Outside The West One Shoping Centre
Why would anyone bemoan the loss of a brass insert logo on a piece of paving on Oxford Street. There are other things more worth of missing on Oxford Street, before you get to this rat[…]

An Office Debate:
Colleague: “I saw some dogging yesterday in Green Park!”
All in office: “How do you get a car into Green Park?”
Colleague: “You don’t need a car! I was walking by and saw two people having sex on […]

So Phil Oakey said on the Human League song Human and handy it was too to know that he was not the kind of man-machine that his eerily synthesized music suggested he was. Eerily synthisized in the way that all crap things are eerie, redimentary knive[…]

Watch your back Tanya! Our own resident music hater seems to have serious competition from an unlikely source: Amy Winehouse. Up until now the main joy in Winehouse’s existence has been her ability to make good copy in interviews, and it appear[…]

y’k vagonu tekerlek
The above phrase is a (probably syntactically inaccurate) translation of ‘WagonWheel’ into Turkish. Which is what the Halley Pasta is, pretty much. Produced by snack manufacturing giants ‘lker, it’s[…]

West Ended
I read in the South London Press that So Solid’s Romeo is accused of involvement in a stabbing incident in Soho. This is obviously a bad thing for all concerned. I also note that, as part of the conditions of his bail, he has been or[…]

POP FACTOR: 450 CONTROVERSY RATING: 344
Hard-won experience of life has crushed poor Avril’s enthusiasm: the instrumental hook of “My Happy Ending” is the hook of “Sk8er Boi” stuck in a sulky tar-pit. I’m gratefu[…]

I had a good day in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago. Some pleasant beers, excellent company and an interesting new city for me to explore. Oddly I probably had the classiest drink I have had this year in the Vodka bar there, which reminded me I should […]

Last Life In The Universe is a Thai film by a director (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang – of Mon-Rak Transistor fame) who is well aware his audience is predominantly in the West. Why else would this slight love story between a morbid Japanese youth and a me[…]