DEAD MAN’S CHESS: (Three Questions abt Treasure Island pt 2)
#2: What are Long John Silver’s politics? (sorry this is v.long: scroll down to excellent = less homework-y stuff from sarah and mike g. and tom)
i. Even if we agree that the […]

BRANDWATCH UPDATE: Oh. My. God.
“Bernard Matthews will bring little girl’s dreams to reality with the launch of the first ever ‘girl’ orientated frozen shaped product ‘ Princess Dreams. The innovative fairytale-inspired […]

AS MAN BECOMES MACHINE!
No, not a link to the mad TRON geezer (arrrgh mein eyes), but instead, my latest purchase from the charity shop: Man Becomes Machine:The Chilling Investigation of Humanity’s Robot Future, by David M. Rorvik.
Originally[…]

BRANDWATCH 21/04/04
Every week I get a copy of marketing. Every week I fillet it for news that might be of vague interest to the rest of the world, particularly that segment of it which likes BOOZE and SNACKS.
FOOD AND DRINK
1. Tizer is launching Tiz[…]

Uncomfortable Reading
I collect old travel literature on Europe and the Americas. I can’t explain the appeal, but it combines elements of dusty covers and rifling through damp shops in Hay-on-Wye.
The more offbeat the finds, the better. Two wo[…]

Oh My Liver: “ligging in London”, entertaining blog.[…]

Mordillo: Euro-cartoon giant who leans more to the droll than the funny – site contains expansive and somewhat frightening CV detailing the dizzying range of Mordillo merchandising and licensing, with one sad exception: the remarkable touch-scr[…]

QuizzerWatch: beware a fiendish new trick on pub quizzers. Last night a colleague and I put ‘2 into a multi-game machine, got ‘6 return off Top Of The Pops and Hangman 2 – so far so good, time to collect our winnings and head for ho[…]