The Post-TV Diaries: part 4
During the English summer, there should be absolutely no need to watch TV. All our traditional activities such as attending car boot sales, playing amateur versions of cricket in turdy parks, erecting gazebos, and getting […]

I realised the other day why I liked the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is The Love?”, Basically, it’s Americans doing a Europop tune – imagine One-T or better yet Dr.Alban doing it and you’ll see what I mean. It has just[…]

Everything that has a beginning has an end, suggested a completely different trilogy last year. Inaccurately in my opinion. Nevertheless the loving recreation of Middle Earth in New Zealand did have an end, and it marked the cessation of some clever […]

Harry Popster: In the third Harry Potter film there’s a scene where Professor Lupin puts a record on, just before HP practises some monster-fighting, so Harry’s battle with his worst fears has an incongruous (but effective) trad jazz soun[…]

Ways to tell you’re watching the game alone #1
Musing that the words ‘GNEVILLE’ and ‘PNEVILLE’ would both be pronounced ‘Neville’. Then desperately trying to find something interesting about this ‘fact[…]

How to be part of your national squad for euro 2004.
Visit the Panini website.
View their exciting selection of e-cards
Crudely photoshop (or even better, paint) a picture of your head onto a sticker.
Voila! Instant immortality.
“Hold on a seco[…]

the Sporting class war
So I happened to be walking past a sports shop in Leafy Uxbridge and noticed the new England football shirts were 25 quid, then I saw the other nation’s were a steep but usual 40 quid. Then though, I saw the England rugb[…]

Idiot Alan Watches Time Shift TV
I (sigh) found myself watching E4+1 “live” feed of that house, and my brain was going “OMG, it’s not E4+1 it’s E4–1, this was an hour ago”. Then while subconsciously flipping […]

tell us the korrekt jargon plz!!??
While helping my friends T&G unpack yesterday after hurriedly moving house to lovely walthamstow, we discovered a JAR OF CLOVES in a BAG OF CLOTHES!!! We tried to work out what kind of literary device/joke thi[…]

A Question of Sport
OK two questions actually abt C4’s Dream Team extravanganza last night (f.my auld professional contrarian pals D.Kelly and S.Cosgrove).
i. What wz the TERRIFIC music being used behind Alan ‘Dirty’ Shearer? andi[…]