You are hot. You want cooling. You buy a Magnum, aware that it is the premiere ice cream chocolate combo.Butwhat is this? Oops, you have accidentally bought another one of the four hundred special edition Magnum’s that come out every year. Stil[…]

Let’s look at the joke in the title. We have the idea of sleepy all-American town Grosse Point. We have the idea of John Boorman’s Point Blank. And in between we have a comedy about a hitman going to his high school reunion. Oh and the hi[…]

THE TOP 100 FILMS (apologies)
Apologies as my sure fire system for popping up posts slowed down over the last few days due to me being in Spain. Thios is likely to happen while I am at Glastonbury too.
Bigger apologies go to Martin who wrote a spiffi[…]

Wrestling: language falling short
Sometimes your words just don’t work. The second tier wrestler Raven, no longer in the WWE, is now one of the stars of a smaller federation. He has taken to saying “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore’&#8221[…]

Dracula (Part One – England)
I don’t know why I hadn’t read Dracula. I like old-skool horror as much as the next weirdo, but I’d never even picked it up. A few weeks ago I was chatting about family trees to my girlfriend&#8217[…]

just call me statto…

(i expect this wayne rooney joke is ancient by now but it was new to me last night when my friend glyn made it and i laughed so now you can) (unless you heard it before already)[…]

i wub hackney part #238457
ok so stelfox suggested we go to this newish vietnamese place on mare street, and between us as seasoned public cuisineers being maybe more showoffy adventurous we picked choices we probably wouldn’t have done if we&[…]

an “experienced reality TV psychologist“??
the one-word version is “scientician”[…]

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
I wasn’t at all sure whether I’d like Palahniuk. He wrote Fight Club, a clever film I liked, so he seemed worth a try, but I wondered if he might be just a smart cult author with nothing much to offer. But I enjoy[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: part 6
Through various mechanisms I have had the opportunity to watch television in my own house twice during the past week. And what did I vicariously experience? 1) desperate humiliation (England v France) and 2) someone fartin[…]