Ajinomoto is japan’s MY favourite food brand these days. I am not referring to the animal food they produce – though it worries me, it might end up in my Cook Do sauces. So yes, I am a Cook Do afficionado (and a food-neurotic but that&#82[…]

Swells clearly wrote this in his sleep, bless him, but ‘Get off your knees, you disgusting old scabs’ did make me laugh.
I was right behind the FA (for the first time ever, I think) on their handling of the Ferdinand business but when I […]

Please do not rob me aka I too now have a GameCube courtesy of Nintendo’s whacking big price cuts. First game purchases = Soul Calibur Two and Legend of Zelda: The Wind Wanker AHEM I said WIND WAKER! Have realised have worrying addiction to und[…]

A mention of nipples in BBC2’s otherwise pointless Grumpy Old Men show brings back a story that relates to a posting I recently made on Proven By Science, about losing touch with reality. Back in the ’60s a Marvel comic editor had a go at[…]

Desperation in narrative: the voiceover artist in Wild Down Under, a wildlife show about Australia and thereabouts, did his best, but no one could make this feeble line dramatic: “And New Caledonia has its own monster, the giant gecko! It&#8217[…]

So What?
At some point a girl I used to know told Gordon from Ballboy she thought his band wasn’t ‘avant-garde enough’ for her taste. Fair enough: churning out sub-Gedge indie platitudes over jangling guitars is hardly Gertrude Stei[…]

I promised Tom that I would write an article for the recent edition of Freaky Trigger on the politics of Once Upon A Time In Mexico. A quick flick to the front page will confirm that this was once again an empty promise. Partially due to laziness. Bu[…]

One of the most annoying things about Radio 1 (leaving almost ALL the presenters out of the equation for the moment) is their insistence on telling you things OFFICIALLY. If it’s not the Official start to your weekend, it’s the Official s[…]

Spamwatch: the FT email accounts are still getting lots of boring old African dictators but an exciting new trend on the horizon is the garbled subject spam. First off Rayad Corkhill mails me to say “YFggh GGet a huge dink dxxr”, then it&[…]

As in a meal, so in our cookery course, the bahjis were only a starter. This week we moved onto our first curry, with basmati rice. Now I didn’t actually pay any attention while CB made the rice (it was supposed to be collaborative, but my onio[…]