FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.21: Heights
Not everyone is scared of heights. I wasn’t. I remember scampering about on some scaffolding at the top of Chartres Cathedral on a school trip: I didn’t play chicken like some of the other[…]

I like Brutalist architecture. I like the colour of rained-on concrete and I love big, blocky geometricality. I’m always attracted to creative movements which name themselves by reclaiming the insults which defined them in the first place. Am I[…]

Euler and Maxwell tied at 1st place
Yes, yes, another Proven by Science story courtesy of BBC news. A mix of equations both mathematical and physical-phenomenal, voted for by Physics World. That list in full.
I’m going to throw in some controve[…]

proof that bicycle-wielding action painter j.pollock = big yank puff
asger jorn and pals (and dog) make a clay mural[…]

Mike Basset England Manager was not what you might called a sophisticated satire. The set-up being that pretty awful Norwich City manager Bassett becomes surprise pick for England manager when no-one else wanted to do the job. That much was true in 2[…]

The other day I went to a gallery and it was the National Gallery and it had pictures and they were dead good and there was a horsey.[…]

Code 46 is a futuristic law which says that due to the massive rise in in vitro births and other shenanigans, we must not have children with people who share our genetic code. Its anti-incest because that half the people on the planet may have simila[…]

Things In The Top 25 Non Fiction Books Which Are Fiction No Matter How Many Copies They Sell
7. Julia Donaldson – The Gruffalo’s Child
12. The Beano Annual*
18. Rowling – Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
21. Derek Acorah &#[…]

Fine and Dandy
The Today programme, yesterday. John Humphries intriduces a story about the new, glossy, relaunched Dandy.
He begins by fulminating that it’s on glossy paper, has new stories, and Desperate Dan has got rid of his gun. Isn’t[…]

Toe curling moments in political television (apologies for inaccurate transcription from memory but this is broadly correct):
Question Time, BBC1, 7 October 2004. Dimbleby declares that only 60 seconds remain of the programme. Nation thanks its lucky[…]