WARNING: PISS-POOR SATIRE ALERT
Back to our old friends BBC news who are pretty pleased with their headline “Museum has flush of inspiration” even though it does not really make sense. (You have flashes of inspiration, hence the lightbulb[…]

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Petty Irritants[…]

Assortment
Sexy vegetarian (That ominous groaning you hear is the phrase “made history” being stretched to breaking point by IOL.)
Not Jazz.
I like what said the gramaphone says here about Daft Punk’s Franz Ferdinand mix – don[…]

Bush Administration VS Science: FITE![…]

Timewyrm: – Apocalypse – Nigel Robinson (3/10)
  (TARDIS crew: 7th, Ace; VILLAIN: The Timewyrm, The Panjistri)
The third installment of the Timewyrm series was written by another Target novelization alum whose previous efforts focused o[…]

What does the latest round of Guiness (Extra Cold) adverts (a follow-up pastiche compilation of previous classic Guiness ads) suggest? That they’ve run out of ideas and are squeezing the last drops of the black stuff (not Bovril) from the damp […]

Brilliant People of Television1: Ptolemy Dean
I was quite pleased when Restoration came back to our screens last night. Now, yes it’s a good thing that old buildings are being saved and returned to their former glory or put to some new use. Tho[…]

FT Top 100 Films
63: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
What do I like about the Royal Tenenbaums? There is only one thing I really, really like about it (there are lots of little things I like a bit about it but I must admit the whole thing did not overwhelm me).[…]

Elsewhere:
Horror.
Not entirely sure about this.
Really not sure about this – and a little surprised given the author’s campaign against ‘indie drabness’
Back!
Nostalgia post hints (in comments) at intriguing question – […]

Oh dear, a tale of woe from the copa America
Let’s hope they keep flying as some of the football has been great. It must be such a burden on a country though, to put such a tournament together, makes you wonder that love of footie apart, why d[…]