More Woody: The title gag goes as follows “Do you ever wonder about the futility of life, the horrific impending spectre of death and the fact it seems impossible to relate to anyone in this world?”
Cab Driver -“Well you know, it&#8[…]

John Michael Montgomery
Letters To Home
All the country stations I listen to are attaching this track to pro-war/pro-soldier campaigns. This is because it manages to combine the concrete and the abstract in a really banal way. Nothing is metioned abo[…]

London Threatened
Not that many Doctor Who stories are set mainly in London, and in fewer still is the city directly menaced. Okay, yes, in one story an embarrassing Loch Ness Monster waves its head around near some Bankside office blocks, but gener[…]

I could spend hours and hours looking at this, although obviously it should be called “Putting Transport on the SCHEMATIC.” If (and it’s a huge if) this does all come to fruition, will this new map (whatever) change the way we thin[…]

PRESENTERATOR
an occasional series rating the modern British television presenting animal out of 10
#2: “The Curious Case Of” SUZI PERRY
Suzi Perry, for the unfamiliar, is first and foremost the presenter of the Moto GP (i.e. big fuck-off[…]

SABALON GLITZ
Ufonic
Or, whatever happened to that one guy that was supposedly going to be famous, 1341541564th in a series.
For the first time, I’m getting around to listening to the (I think) one album by Chicago group Sabalon Glitz from ba[…]

FT Top 100 Films
50: ANNIE HALL
I love Annie Hall. There you go, not much more for me to say on that subject really. It completely invented a type of romantic comedy, and laid the template for the standard Woody Allen film that he would flop back to […]

map that proves that london is donut-shaped
it is simple: i. the City of Westminster cannot be part of the city of london by logic IT IS THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFT NAME!! ii. City of London – called ‘City’ on o[…]

Return to Treasure Island
[See also here, here, here and here]
In Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates Harry Ritchie remarks, a propos the legends of Kidd’s lost treasure, ?the idea of burying loot on a tropical island would have struck[…]

If Ping Pong was too tame for you, and the lack of death in Shaolin Soccer got you down – there is always Battlefield Baseball. Probably not coming to a cinema near us soo.[…]