“Trainspotting” used as metaphor for trainspotting shockah!
I don’t know if it won any actual real awards, but The Station Agent is/was a shoo-in for the Ghost World Memorial ‘Indiest Film in the History of Indie’ Cup. […]

Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296: I just caught myself congratulating myself for being late to a record – not only not hearing the Wiley record until it’s in the shops but mostly avoiding the web talk on it, so that the gorgeous, gorge[…]

Some ambitions seem so unlikely that they end up just being vague curiosities. For instance I always assumed there was some kind of vetting process for TV pop show audiences and that a fat bearded thirtysomething would fall well outside it. So it cam[…]

A Bird In The Hand was what Channel 4 called its biog of tragic emu-wielding funnyman Rod Hull. The show ran along standard tears-behind-the-laughter lines; what really divided the viewers was the question of whether Emu was funny. Alan and I voted a[…]

DEAD MAN’S CHESS: (Three Questions abt Treasure Island pt 3)
#3 (and LAST): Why did the pirates not win?
Basically Treasure Island is an argument about the nature of authority: at sea*, this zone of lawless democracy, sovereignty is his who c[…]

Fun with graphs

Totally ripped from mark H “blogging” it on ILE, but graph humour is always great. The rest of the paper is ok. It’s just graphs that crack me up. Every time. Also, why doesn’t this graph have a title? I would[…]

Oh no! All the publog gourmets have gone to the States for some kind of wedding thing! What are the rest of us to do? To the rescue, Cooking With Crisps![…]

MY NEW CAMPAIGN:
evazev: why are there not more ghosts in soaps? tokyo rosemary: there should be! evazev: yes!![…]

Red Kite Farms Ltd have come up with Organic Slumber Bedtime Milk. Described as, ‘whole-milk, ORGANICALLY produced at night on our farm in the Chiltern Hills which may help to promote revitalising sleep.’ Apparently it’s chock-full […]

Numerological mysteries: Three “not a nice number” says Anthony from Blue. My understanding is that Lee has been planning a solo release for ages – he was going on about an anti-war single last year to the distaste of leading politi[…]