PUBLOG FRUIT OF THE MONTH: RHUBARB
I made a rhubarb pie yesterday, after having been afeard for many a year of how to cook the fruit worlds answer to celery. I guess I was always slightly put off by the poisonous leaves thing (Bad Girls watchers tak[…]

(aka PopNose13)
So Mark S messaged me – “Have you ever heard of Midi Maxi And Efti?”. I had not. He told me he hadn’t either – except he dimly remembered Frank Kogan raving about them. I was intrigued. Partly because Fra[…]

Before and After Para-Science #2
So here i wz in Wales, during a little break from ferrying my invalid mum’m’dad around, and i wz making notes on a piece frank kogan commissioned wms contributors to write, ages back, which in my case is […]

When artistic choices go wrong. Emile, an attempt at a Proustian remembrance of a Canada past from the view of an exiled academic, is not unusually in using a wistful look to signal a flashback to echo memory. Ian McKellan as Emile, can be set off by[…]

You will notice that due to the methodology of the list, you will often get pairs or even runs of associated movies. This may well be due to half of the assorted drunk contributors not actually seeing many films. And good for them, there are much bet[…]

Surely this happens in Scandinavia all the time![…]

Before and After Para-Science #1 and b4 u say anything i’ve got #2 lined up so :b
“Q: … The more the better. We are glad to meet all our friends. What can we do for you? “A: Attend. Obey the spirits. “Q: We will do a[…]

ADMIN: We’ve thrown caution to the wind and signed up for Gmail – freakytrigger@gmail.com, unsurprisingly. This will probably be the ‘official’ FT email account, we’ll change everything over soon. The main benefit is goi[…]

I think I take a perverse pride in leading people to the Dun-A-Ri, aka The Irish Bar. Its actual Irishness is limited almost wholly by its name. The clientele, drinks and everything else about screams Saturday night on Lewisham High Street (thank you[…]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…..
Star Wars would still be the perenial list topper for populist film charts.
It is not the case anymore I would wager. The document of the Top 100 list puts this down as Star Wars: A New Hope. Bolloc[…]