Then again, perhaps I will just…
I just went from watching Grass, a Fast Show spinoff on BBC3, to reading the final story in the Essential Human Torch volume that I mentioned below. This story features the Watcher, and I realised that I see him[…]

Remember option two of how to expand a comedy show, especially for a movie? Option one was always send the cast on holiday together, but a close runner-up was to add a weedy crime thriller plot, usually where our hero(es) witness some awful crime. Th[…]

Check out the recent issue of Stay Free!, subtitled the Psychology Issue. There are interviews with Edward Valenstein on the history of lobotomies (why does my library not carry his books? I want to read more!), Laurence Kirmayer on mental illness ac[…]

I can’t stop thinking about my dinner at Lomzynianka. My meal was cheap, tasty, satisfying Polish food. After rejecting two restaurants in Williamsburg (Brunch only? Four dollars for borscht? Screw that!), my dining companion and I finally made[…]

Be sure that there is a storm brewing, as too many games jostle for too few release dates, but this is the calm before, and we’ve just time to take stock. Within a month anyone will be offered the chance to buy Pro-Evolution Soccer 3 and its r[…]

one exception to MarkS’ ruleis the ready salted crips, liberally sprinkled with malt vinegar. My Mum showed me this little trick when I was a kid and it’s fantastic, the crisps go ever so slightly soggy, and best of all, there’s a […]

Lab-ways jist ain’t what they were #1: Back when my dad was a college student, just after WW2, junior research scientists couldn’t necessarily afford even basic equipment, and the departments they were attached to didn’t necessarily[…]

I’ve always been fascinated by huge clunky pieces of machinery: refrigerator-sized computers, punch-card machines, ancient 8mm film cameras with little cranks to turn on the side. There’s just something so reassuring about the crushing we[…]

Crisps are excellent just the way they arrive, and this is surely part of the point of them. But they are actually better i. straight from the oven (I mean your oven, not Mr Walker’s oven), and ii. straight from the fridge (ditto). The fridge b[…]