PCGMwatch: November 2004
Mental state of political correctness worse than ever!
– “Sydney Scrooge” accused of “political correctness gone mad” – her crime was to put a Christmas tree in the City Hall at Christmas. […]

Real Bet’n Balompie
More top comedy from Spain:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/european/story.jsp?story=588801
Can’t they resurrect Greavsie’s Gaff to get these people in for an interview? I hereby volunteer to do interpret[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
5: WAYNE’S WORLD
I saw Wayne’s World in Oxford at a midnight preview screening when I was a student (George Street, Screen 1 which was huge before it was parcelled into six screens). The week before I had seen a midnight scre[…]

Cryptic Clue Corner
Mysteriousness from Popjustice: “there are five utterly amazing new tracks due out next year which will blow each and every one of your heads off. We’re not really allowed to tell you anything about them – althou[…]

It’s not worth it!: “Artists which could save a man from getting dumped by his girl are Damian Rice, Robbie Williams, Joss Stone, Westlife, Usher and Elton John.”[…]

For perhaps the first time in my life, I feel that the phrase “political correctness gone mad” might be entirely justified.[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
December 1972

L-R: Tommy, me, Santa Claus, Bobby.’
You may have already laughed at the family’s next (and, unsurprisingly, last) mall Santa photo.
Man, what happened to my beautiful blonde […]

Catherine Yass: Wall (Alison Jacques Gallery)
When I think of Catherine Yass I mainly think of that upside-down descent from the Canary Wharf clouds to the construction site ground, a piece I found slowly thrilling (from cloud-cuckooland to a false […]

That’s not the coolest opening sentence I’ve ever written. It’s a song that I loved, then hated with a passion and it now sits in limbo beyond like and dislike. What it does contain is all my childhood Christmas memories.
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RUB QUIZ MORE LIKE. Comments on the boorish, unfunny compere at the movie quiz in my local minor sleb hangout would be better suited to Pumpkin Publog, so I won’t make them here. But the content of the quiz itself is indicative of wider trends […]