Adventures In The Alaskan Skin Trade by John Hawkes
Hawkes had been on my mental list for a while, since he seemed to be grouped with some Postmodernist writers I love – there are blurbs on the back of this from Barth, Gass and Barthelme, rathe[…]

The Physics Detective Part Two — The Investigation Begins
This week’s installation was about 100 times funnier than last week’s. As a result, I now have the enthusiasm and motivation to see this story through to the end — and […]

Day 14: Massachusetts
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
Jail. Four walls holding me in. Bars on the window. Really rather oppressive. Not a place for a sophisticated girl like me. It turned out that they did not have the kind of specialist holding f[…]

SCOOTER – “Shake That!”
There is a very common trope in science fiction whereby a society of the future has evolved curious and inexplicable customs which turn out to have – oh irony – been based on misunderstandings of […]

secret pash residue it’s actually kinda NICE to rediscover (potential quickly-abandoned series alert):
i guess all of us (except maybe those who occasionally throw stuff away above and beyond eg crisp packets) have things like these – cu[…]

My soundtrack hell:
Problem 1 with Closer
It opens with a really dull Damien Rice song.
Problem 2 with Closer
It closes with the same really dull Damien Rice song.
The bits in between are okay, but hearing the same rubbish song twice is more than a m[…]

Yes please.
1. This is 2 weeks before my birthday.
2. WarioWare Touched, that will do nicely.
3. One of the other launch titles is called PROJECT RUB![…]

Disco! Disco! DIS-DIS-DISCO!
Told you it would be a good one.
My head is a little bit sore today so I may not get around to firing up The Poptimizer in order for it to take its Nena decision.
Here’s a question, though. What is the most danceabl[…]

Rodney Marsh’s tsunami / toon army pun was pretty poor, truth be told. Was it offensive? No. Of course not. So why has Rodney been vilified in this way?
Obviously post Ron Atkinson (who was racist and was a rare example of political correctness[…]

You Dirty Old Bugger
“My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.”[…]