My Life Of Crime (Pretend): part of my stag weekend involved a board game called BREAK THE SAFE! Initially sceptical, I ended up having a grand time playing it. My doubts arose from the fact that it is a co-operative boardgame, not a competitive one.[…]

When you’re listening to Karen Carpenter singing ‘Close To You’, do you dream she’s singing to you? Or do you dream you’re her, singing to some object of love? Or do you hear the words like a fiction? I’m not sure […]

CRISP PACKET COPY 2: Walkers Sensations Seasonal Edition: Honey Roasted Ham
‘WALKERS SENSATIONS are a new taste experience ‘ crunchier potato crisps bursting with irresistible flavours.
‘HONEY ROASTED HAM recreates the warm, season[…]

Some of my best friends are Scottish, and the recent round of internationals pointed up an interesting dilemma for the English football fan who likes laughing at Scottish football. Do I:
(a) patronisingly support the plucky Scots in their fight agai[…]

BarbieOS 1.0 available to download now!
Most girls up through adult women become frightened and confused, often hysterical when presented with a traditional command prompt,” Cesterino explained, “therefore the console program available t[…]

Knowing a film is going to be crap before you go and see it. This is kind of tied up with guilty pleasures, except often there is very little pleasure involved. Last night I succumbed to the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a film whose crapness i[…]

Proven By Snack Research: my mum was right!! Further study reveals that flavoured crisps were invented by the manufacturers of the crisps with the BEST NAME EVER, and that the little blue paper-twist of salt dates back to 1923 (before google, only a […]

jaxx = roXoR
Check out Michaelangelo Matos’ fantastic Voice article Love Is All, which assesses the new ‘n heartstoppingly brilliant Basement Jaxx album in the same piece with the very good Rapture album (I feel sorry for The Rapture alre[…]

CHEAP FOOD WE LOVE: Supplementary (Crisps, History of) So who invented them, and when? I don’t mean merely thinly sliced potatoes, deep fried as a garnish – bcz the answer to that is almost certain to be the French, probably during the a[…]

Any day now I expect to receive my invitation to appear on the new talking heads show Grumpy Young Women, in which I will, for some inexplicable reason, be allowed to air my grievances about random collections of male C-list celebrities [no link; the[…]