TV PITCHES FROM HELL
1: Dragon’s Den
Its like The X-Factor, but instead of entertainers, people pitch businesses at successful moguls.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
WHat if we call the moguls Dragon’s. You know. Make it sound more interesting than it[…]

“Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp”
Sounds good to me. Can’t be worse than Mike Read, anyway.[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
98. Deee-Lite – “Groove Is In The Heart”
A song that makes me feel slightly old, as it has become a standard in my listening lifetime. And a real, top-ranking standard, too, up there with “Celebration&#822[…]

Nose, Spite, Face
The theme of Blog Seven this month is resolutions. Making them, breaking them, keeping them, blogging them.
Unfortunately one of my main resolutions this month is to get Popular back on a one-track-per day average. This would mean w[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
99. Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach”
Pete says
On the day this list was made I was kindly given Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, which means that I finally own a copy of “Papa Don’t Prea[…]

PUBLOG STYLE REVIEW OF FRENCH SOUNDING CINEMAS IN LONDON
1: The Renoir
A lovely little art-house joint in the middle of a concrete canyon, namely the Brunswick Centre nr Russell Square. Two well situated, cool auditoriums showing almost exclusively n[…]

45 RPM
As in, 45 resolutions per minute. That’s roughly the number of them I seem to come up with every sixty seconds. Now the hangover has worn off it’s time to put one’s money where one’s booze-guzzling mouth is and actually[…]

The Jeremy Bentham
Who is this handsome chappie then? Is it
a) Tim Rice
b) Jeremy Bentham
c) A bizarre look into a parallel dimension where Peter Davidson had remained as Doctor Who for twenty years?
The clue is in the name of the pub, though Tim Ric[…]

Blade III should be rubbish. Frankly that Blade or Blade II were any good beggared much belief and was basically due to rather flashy direction and surprising conviction in the casts. You can dress up the vampire mythos in as much flashy clothing as […]

2005 is the Einstein Year
And what better way to celebrate the life and achievements of one of the greatest physicists than: The Einstein Flip. A revolutionary way of putting many of his theories on space-time convergence to the test, the Einstein Fl[…]