note to self: polish turd of my ignorance and flaunt as badge of superiority, moral, political, cultural, whatever….
[belated link via matos: i try never to read the G on music, and this is why][…]

Will any of the Beatles make it to 64?*
Answer: yes. Ringo did 2 days ago. Good work Ringo. Coincidentally last night I was with colleagues in a restaurant and we were playing a quiz-based drinking game. If you got a question wrong you had to drink a[…]

FT Top 100 Films
66: CARRY ON NURSE
During the drunken session that created this list, there was some suggestion that Carry On Nurse did not even exist as a film. This idea was very attractive to us, what better to represent the nebulous, huge canon […]

Oh ha ha – fashion victim alert. Problem with taking the piss out of horrible football shirts is that from a crowd perspective it is a bit of a Kylie calling a Britney a flirt. Acres of large bellies stuffed in sports wear, face painting and ju[…]

OOOH WEEE OOOOOOH…
In 1991, Virgin Publishing launched a line of original Doctor Who fiction. Continuing where “Survival” left off, the book range followed the further adventures of the seventh Doctor and Ace, building onto the Doct[…]

American Soldier–Toby Keith
I do not agree with what Toby Keith has to say, I do not like the idea of soldiers in general–of killing at , really, but leftists never give him enough credit, as a performer and as a politician. The idea of[…]

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Dear everyone I know
We are going to see this at one or several of these dates, and we are going to have the most fun ever. For those of you in London, the chance to see several of Forced Entertainment’s sho[…]

Meaux’s Horse Shoe Brewery tragedy of October 1814
(sorry it’s not about breakfast)
As promised, further info on death by beer…
“The brewery’s vat, which stood on the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, h[…]

There’s an effect in Shrek 2 that I don’t remember seeing elsewhere, though it doesn’t even need a completely animated universe: It switches scenes by keeping the lead character in close up, and simply fading one background out and […]

FT Top 100 Films
67: DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD
Now there is a title to conjure with. Put your best foot forward, sock them with an audacious title and maybe they will come back for me. And in the most part the film does fulfill[…]