Go to bed, Mr Swygart
It’s bizarre what manner of shit the crap-telly-enthusiast can persuade themselves to stay up and watch, sometimes. Last night, for instance, it got to about quarter to two. I found myself sat in front of ever-dire cop ser[…]

FREAKY TRIGAN EMPIRE HELP ME W.MY HOMEWORK ok thx bye[…]

Mystery meat
 
So the other day I had tongue for lunch.  It was helpfully labelled ‘lunch tongue’ on the deli counter in Safeways, as opposed to the slightly larger variety also available, which one could presumably slice up for[…]

FT Top 100 Films
56: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
So if The Dark Crystal is The Muppet Movie without the laffs, what is this? The Muppet Movie with Michael Caine as Scrooge? Pretty much. It keeps in the laffs, but it is also a pretty straight adaptati[…]

Oh, they’re are a jolly band that there Metallica. There are plenty of stupid metal fans who saw Spinal Tap as a documentary, but only one band used it as a blueprint for a career. And Master Of Puppets is what you get if you have absolutely no[…]

One of the world’s most beautiful bridges at Mostar in Bosnia has been rebuilt.[…]

Poker bids to become Olympic sport. Despite not actually being a sport. The article mentions that they want to get recognition like chess or bridge, neither of which are Olympic sports. Because they are not sports.
I don’t want to drift into s[…]

Cheat’s Culinary Compendium #3
“Sip your spirits and cure your cold, but I will take Port that will cure all things, even a bad character. For there was never a Port drinker who lacked friends to speak for him.”
Thackeray (quoted, u[…]

Pink pork in ok to eat shocker![…]

Greatest superhero comic story ever?

I was just rereading Grant Morrison’s run on the JLA, and there isn’t a superhero story I love more than his final epic. It starts with Luthor and a couple of other deadly JLA foes banding together, d[…]