“I Created Blog, The Thing That Should Not Be!”. Via Pearls That Are His Eyes, another awesome comics resource in the form of the MONSTER BLOG. (NB it’s not actually in any sense a blog, it’s just a website. Also they should h[…]

Why don’t I like U2? Because Bono is a dick? Well, maybe, but why is he a dick? What particular quality of theirs is it that stops their rockin’ monumentalism working for me? I think it’s this: rather than just be about bigness in a[…]

Screen Cuisine: Done well, lists are writing tapas.[…]

Take The Daytrippers and mix it with Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking, and you get Pieces Of April. The Daytrippers is the family journey part, as the go from suburbia to New York to see wayward daughter April. What’s Cooking is the[…]

We’re back from Bilbao. It was terrific – big thanks to the organisers, who handled the inevitable logistical nightmare of 14 thirsty Brit blokes with aplomb. There will no doubt be several holiday-inspired posts. This is one of them. It&[…]

Since MOTHS never sleep, and are as active now as 50 years ago, the looks of bafflement that sistrah Becky and I got when we asked for MOTHBALLS are a bit baffling in themselves (e.g. in Woolworths and in my otherwise unimpeachable nearby drycleaners[…]

“don’t like it DON’T LIKE IT“More on kids’n’music, heh: I like where Keiran puts pencils in his ears rather than hear some of the horrible dadmusic…[…]

My Dad as God of Weird Breakfast Long Ago:
He’s too disabled to manage now, sadly, but especially when I was small, breakfast was HIS meal, and he went at it with fascinating precision, everything exactly timed with its own ritual – I&#8[…]

I am not very Charmed
Someone I was shagging a couple of years back was friends with the script editor on Charmed. I found it difficult to find a single good thing to say to him about his friend’s work. The episode rerun tonight is a particular[…]

Call David Icke!! Proof “they” walk among us uncovered while watching Crufts Dog Show on BBC2

Dogs from space!![…]