To counter my own bonkers work on film, it is good to see that mates in the pub can come up with equally out there theses. Last night in pub number two I was presented with the Alien / Pubic Hair debate. Said friend of mine had watched the Alien Quad[…]

On diet mixers! I tell you what, drinking vodka and boring ole slimline tonic is very BORING. Instead of the HURRAH HURRAH type drunk you get from Lovely Beer all you get is a headache and a vague feeling of restlessness and alienation. No wonder Ric[…]

Why oh why are there no cheese-based liqueurs? You get port IN stilton, you get cheese AND wine, you get beer-flavoured cheese, so surely the reverse would be unspeakably delicious: cheese IN wine? cheese IN beer? stilton IN port?
Anyway I got a bl[…]

It’s published by Routledge, it cites Derrida, Foucault and Barthes, it’s about British Theatre – more specifically John Osborne – so all in all this is a shoo-in to be hated by me (I like D, F and B, but on the whole I hate a[…]

Your talk show? Has been taken off the air? For gratuitous racism in the Sunday Express?
So no Kilroy next week, and we all get an extra half hour in bed before Trisha. His crime was to claim that Arab countries have given the world nothing. Yet, acc[…]

Sarah is right. I have seen Virus. I took a couple hours off of work to see this godforesaken Alien rip-off (starring Jamie Leigh Curtis as Sigourney Weaver). Most notable for Donald Sutherland being the ripest, most mature, smoked old ham you will e[…]

No doubt like every other right-thinking publogger, I find this a blatant bit of bandwagon jumping…
What about the other 51 weeks of the year, eh? Part-timers, the lot of ’em…[…]

[Ananova link expired] Hot off the press with breaking posts today, aint I readers? This news is possibly the best thing I’ve heard since it turned lunchtime. I’m off to the publog.[…]

Independence Day. Isn’t it marvellous? Hurrah hurrah let’s kill the stripper and those hippies! That’s the kind of morals I WANT from my films! Until the aliens bugger up by deciding just to kill EVERYBODY. Where’s the subtlet[…]

But X-ray crystallography is totally punk rock! Analytical chemistry methods in descending order of punk rockness:
1. X-ray crystallography
2. NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy
3. MALDI-mass spectrometry
4. Column chromatography (elute w[…]