CRISIS ON INFINITE PENCILSHARPENERS

(Click for obscene bigness plus obscene fiddliness).
Crisis On Infinite Earth was the big crossover event. It was the first big companywide one, over at DC-Comics and was in itself relatively nonsensical and remar[…]

What TV show had the highest ever British viewing figures?
Easy, eh? The Royal Wedding. Or the Morecambe and Wise ’78 Christmas special. Or England-Germany in 1996. Or Den and Angie, Christmas ’86. Or. Or.
It seemed like an obvious pub qu[…]

Quiz Appeal
I’m doing two quizzes at work to raise money for the Tsunami appeal. One is a pub quiz, which I’ve got pretty much sorted. The other is a pencil and paper quiz, which I haven’t. I need questions.
If you have any question[…]

I occasionally get press releases from bands and DJ’s offering their services to my University. Here is one I got today. Notice the so called “massive saving”.
FANTASTIC OFFER FROM ONE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST NAMES! F[…]

More news in on downloading music
Compare “Record sales in the US have fallen because of people using the internet to download albums, a study suggests” and contrast “US CD sales rose by 2.3% in 2004”
(BBC news stories 3 days […]

Resolutions need resolve.
I am on the whole anti-New Years resolutions. As are most psychologists in the know. Artificial deadlines to start or stop doing something suggest that deep down we do not want to effect this change. And if deep down we do […]

Why have all the great children’s comics of yesteryear vanished, asks Brandon Robshaw of the Times
Bit of a “Phil Space” article for the Times. Published Jan 1st from “the file” before proper journos came back off holida[…]

I saw a cloud the other day that looked just like Margaret Rutherford in Blithe Spirit. Admitttedly if she was in profile, and if her body was significantly truncated and blobby like the Michelin Man. It was a passing fancy at the time, little did I […]

MORE PUBLOG SCIENCE
Wifebeater. Another name for Stella Artois. It seems to be a truth held universal that Stella Artois makes you an aggressive drunk. It is after all a strong lager. But I believe I have had nights out drinking Kronenburg, an equall[…]

wive$watch (us style):
i. on first ep showing “desperate housewives” cd just as be called “stepford husbands” ii. picket-fence lynchism has become a viably mainstream US TV trope iii. i nearly didn’t bother as i caught […]