Geeta’s Original Soundtrack site has been on terrific form recently and here is another excellent example, where she calls for a New Pop revival. I totally agree about the need for absurdity in pop – the “what the fuck?” eleme[…]

REAL LIFE EXPERIMENTS #1: The Tube Train
AIM: Find out what happens if you pull the emergency handle in a London tube train.
APPARATUS: 1 Northern Line tube train with emergency handles, air conditioning and tannoy systems. 2 fellow passengers. 1 dri[…]

I wish I’d read girl’s anthology comics when I was younger. At school I was a swot and a pouf anyway, so what the hell. As a fella in my 30s I am of course attempting to buy-back my youth. At flea-markets, if I see any of the range of IPC[…]

The Guardian’s set of British Band Top Trumps is a dud in terms of production values – uneven cards, poor paper stock and you have to photocopy the newspaper in order to make a full pack. They get the mechanics of Top Trumps exactly right[…]

Living on the East London borderland between the Turkish Quarter and the Vietnamese Quarter (and should you choose to accept your mission) you get to discover lots about real actual Turkish Delight in all its flavours and forms. Here is a warning for[…]

A few months ago, a prominent TMFDer was on Radio 5’s breakfast show, interviewed by none other than Victoria Derbyshire. I’m not a fan of Victoria Derbyshire, she seems to embark on brief breakfast radio interview slots with a clear idea[…]

QI continues to blot the midweek BBC schedules, sloshing around the comedy quiz genre in an entirely pointless, middle class way. Not that there are any comedy quiz shows that aren’t middle class; Radio 4 remains their spiritual home, where an[…]

I have never liked Turkish Delight. It tastes like jellified bubble bath (no I have never eaten jellified bubble bath, I am using my imagination). I have tried, honest I have – I’ve had the Fry’s stuff and the stuff covered in talc […]

I don’t really know why I still go to open mic poetry nights, as I reached the age where other people’s earnestness becomes anathema quite a while ago. But as Paul Stones, host of Howling at the Moon, said last night (though in slightly […]

Since I was a child, I’ve been certain that our planet is not the only place where life exists. I can remember staying up with the covers pulled around my head in bed, with my eyes glued to shows like Nova on late-night public television. Seein[…]