parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
bah this tale is all tease and deferred delivery (note however how mountainspeak has shifted from the lofty excelsior sublime of mallory’s time – where climbers were trying to waft themselves abo[…]

Martin Skidmore says:
It seems a bizarre claim after almost 80 years of technical improvements and the fabulous special effects we have now, but this might well still be my favourite SF movie. I guess we haven’t had so many sci-fi flicks direct[…]

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Least Surprising ‘News’ Ever: cheers Ananova!
Dave Stelfox interviews the guy who designs those lovely Greensleeves sleeves.
Time to repeat my biennial cry for an actual release (OK ANY release!) of Osymyso’[…]

PopNose17: this would have been the next song I posted to the block-stricken A Million Love Songs. So you can have it instead. As ever, if you know what it is (and more of you will this time), don’t tell. I’m wondering about whether to di[…]

Gretchen Williams–Redneck Woman
Gretchen Williams pretends to be the post feminist woman that all the boys want to fuck and all the girls want to be… a half camp figure, but with some serious messages as well. She wants to connect class t[…]

“06/07 Everest 2004: Mallory and Irvine The Final Chapter: Be careful what you ask for… coming on Tuesday“ (ie tomorrow)
this climbing team, posting anonymously and melodramatically from everest over the last month, claimed b4 they[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: part 4
During the English summer, there should be absolutely no need to watch TV. All our traditional activities such as attending car boot sales, playing amateur versions of cricket in turdy parks, erecting gazebos, and getting […]

I realised the other day why I liked the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is The Love?”, Basically, it’s Americans doing a Europop tune – imagine One-T or better yet Dr.Alban doing it and you’ll see what I mean. It has just[…]

Everything that has a beginning has an end, suggested a completely different trilogy last year. Inaccurately in my opinion. Nevertheless the loving recreation of Middle Earth in New Zealand did have an end, and it marked the cessation of some clever […]

Harry Popster: In the third Harry Potter film there’s a scene where Professor Lupin puts a record on, just before HP practises some monster-fighting, so Harry’s battle with his worst fears has an incongruous (but effective) trad jazz soun[…]