Julia Davis in Nighty Night is probably the furthest we can go with nasty a protagonist in a comedy. It causes quite a massive dichotomy really. How can Jill, the really unpleasant Beauty Shop propriator be so well formed as a character and yet be so[…]

The unpoliced zones of Brit TV are on a total high currently, as regards unexpected science, its hardcore and its social aspects – Monday 12 Jan on BBC2, C4 and C5 saw a fantastic run of documentaries, end to end (and not even clashing a bit!)[…]

On the whole I watch TV as anti-stimulation – same reason as I DON’T listen to music (music generates way too much whirly stuff in my head, so unless I’m actually writing about it or researching something I avoid it). Anyway, I don&[…]

This thread is terrific and useful – well done Matos for the idea, to the power of ten if people actually start making these CDs. The previous set of 700MB Go! threads left me a bit numbed – just too much data – but the less-than-CD[…]

I did not see The Sweetest Thing when it came out summer 2002 (I might have been on holiday that week, sorry). Warned off by poor reviews I assumed it was a sub Farrelly Brothers gross out comedy. Whilst I would not go as far as the film-makers in th[…]

If science is the new punk rock then I think the Dana Centre wants to be the 100 Club. I have not been yet, but they seem to be trying awfully hard to be intelligent, fun AND grown-up. This seems to work on the basis that controversy is the best way […]

The publog may well be seeking submissions for a British version of Not Fooling Anybody. A fun, if somewhat culturally specific, site cataloguing rather poor makeovers of previous corporate-branded shops and restaurants. Much of the fun has been take[…]

To counter my own bonkers work on film, it is good to see that mates in the pub can come up with equally out there theses. Last night in pub number two I was presented with the Alien / Pubic Hair debate. Said friend of mine had watched the Alien Quad[…]

On diet mixers! I tell you what, drinking vodka and boring ole slimline tonic is very BORING. Instead of the HURRAH HURRAH type drunk you get from Lovely Beer all you get is a headache and a vague feeling of restlessness and alienation. No wonder Ric[…]

Why oh why are there no cheese-based liqueurs? You get port IN stilton, you get cheese AND wine, you get beer-flavoured cheese, so surely the reverse would be unspeakably delicious: cheese IN wine? cheese IN beer? stilton IN port?
Anyway I got a bl[…]