Giggling happily at the horrible violence
No, not Kill Bill, but Home Alone!! Tarantino wd employ John Candy if he could and HE WOULD BE RIGHT! (Baffled non UK-ers note: this xmas movie was shown as a Bank Holiday TV Movie yesterday…)[…]

The Time Out Pub Of The Year shortlist has come out, and it looks like the beardy beeries of CAMRA (stereotypes are there for a reason chaps) have had a look in. Perenial CAMRA, and to be fair publog, favourite The Wenlock Arms is there. But also so […]

Les Kellett
The Wrestling Channel is a welcome addition to my Sky line-up. To be honest, most of it is Japanese shows with Japanese commentary or third-rate WWE knock-off stuff, not all bad, often fast and lively, but I think what little genuine star[…]

Now With Added Stats
Cosmetic Ads on TV are perennial science-blog fodder*, but I have noticed something new on the ads on (British) television. Statistics. Not simply “10 times smoother” but things like “10 times smoother, 15 women[…]

Screwing The Black
My snooker story is much the same as most of my generation. Watched it with grandparents, now find it dull, played it once – it took forever. The game is still suffering from the damage inflicted upon it by Stephen Hendry, a […]

Nobody was expecting hard science from the BBC’s Test Your Pet, but even so it left pet owners shortchanged in its attempts to define animal intelligence as ‘doing cool tricks’. This is all very well if you have a dog, otherwise it&[…]

I did something yesterday that I’d not done for several years. I went to a Beefeater Restaurant. Truth is, I wasn’t even sure there were any left. The Epsom Downs Beefeater had been a ‘big night out’ for Isabel and I in the ea[…]

I am not glad that Barnet’s hopes of promotion were scuppered yesterday. I am certainly not happy that it happened in a penalty shoot-out of such simplicity that ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GO RIGHT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DID, and you would have scored. […]

The projector went ker-fluieee when I went to see I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead on Saturday, eight minutes into the feature. The interesting looking new Mike Hodges film, reuniting him with Clive Owen from Croupier was thus denied to me &#8211[…]

I HATE MUSICALS3: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang more like.
Okay, I’ll admit that perhaps that is not the most sophisticated piece of criticism I have ever come up with. (It is equally not the most puerile either). Apparently t[…]