“You’re as mad as your mother. And your mother was a lunatic”
Sure, the staging, direction and cast are all fine. It’s just that By The Bargh of Cahrts is not a well-written play.
I was far from interested in seeing this rel[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
95. Gladys Knight – “License To Kill”
Vic Fluro says:
There are stalker songs and there are stalker songs, but when Licence to Kill sweeps into its heavy, pounding intro – like the incidental music for som[…]

COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION
(If you already read comics, you know all of this anyway. Let this serve as a warning to the curious.)
I’ve been reading Marvel and DC comics – ‘mainstream comics’, if you like – again for a few m[…]

MUST WE THROW THIS BOGEY FIRTH* AT OUR YOUNG KIDS
Yes, being the quite obvious answer. Tory MP gets knickers in twist re: Dick and Dom. Though I like the idea of Tessa Jowell playing Drop Your Guts…
*TYPO UPDATE: This should, of course, be filt[…]

Day 6: Metal Box
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

Crisis has just hit. I was in rather high spirits last night, after Crispian had discovered exactly why tomcats make “THAT” noise, and was supping a comforting single in my bunk. I had […]

TESCO’S WILL EAT ITSELF: I was just in the Goodge Street Tesco’s buying myself some prunes. Above the queue for the express checkouts is a television which is permatuned to Sky News. And it was showing a story about…Tesco’s so[…]

MODAID 20!
It was a bad idea in 1985, it is a bad idea now.
Sorry, churlishness there. Obviously a wonderful initiaitve and all (though I guess in 1985 they might have done a better deed by raising a little bit of money for Stevie Marriott). I do wo[…]

SALADS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU DESPITE THE HEADLINE WOT SEZ THEY ARE NOT
More idiot food science. Salads in some restaurants have quite a high calorie count. NO SHIT! Creamy sauce, croutons, cheese, bacon – a sprinkling of rocket and tomatoes do […]

National Treasure
I’d been wanting to see this since I saw the Trailer about 8 months back. Bad reviews had made me worried, but not so much; I thought I’d watch 2 hours of reasonably good rubbish. I was wrong. I loved it. It was BRILLIAN[…]

Thomas Gravesen at Real Madrid
Obviously all we amateur pundits instantly agreed that Gravesen was just the kind of player that Real needed, someone to work and win ball and stop the other team in the middle of the park, someone to do the kind of job[…]