(NB the #18 animal will appear soon, we have commissioned an expert in the field to write a piece and will publish it out of sequence!)
My work has been on a drive to get everyone to complete their profiles on the Company Intranet. This is 3000 peopl[…]

In the Finnish department store they laid out the CDs as follows:
– Classical and non; then
– Finnish language and non; then
– Mid and full price.
The racking policies of big shops are culturally significant. In Britain HMV’s […]

Only a 4 for I’m Going Slightly Mad??!!
Popular hit its 200th No.1 yesterday, and this morning I find another P-inspired blog, this one with a slightly different focus: reviewing every Queen single! Best of luck. Queen are a good choice for thi[…]

BITIN MY (PYROCLASTIC) FLOW!!
the fictional-prophetic quasi-documentary is something the bbc seems to be doing extremely well, currently: there was a very neat one last year – about a possible “terrorist attack” via the markets (i […]

Rereading children’s books as an adult – those you haven’t looked at once since childhood – you sometimes slam into a particular contraction of response: a sort of ultra-localised Tom’s Midnight Garden Effect (TMGE), in […]

DON’T BORE US
DON’T WATCH THE CHORUS
Perhaps it is a testament to the real poverty in French cinema at the moment that the really big box office successes from over the channel seem to be stuffed to the gills with cute kids. The Chorus is[…]

lonely aquatic dinosaur seeks similar for laughs, moonlit walks. no smokers or stegosauri
i. all other lake monsters have better names viz ogopogo, mamlambo, bessie oh wait ii. at least mamlambo (“half-fish, half-horse monster”) EATS PEO[…]

NOT PROVEN BY SCIENCE AT ALL IN ANY WAY
Just got some fliers at work for this pair of seminars: The UFO Contacts Seminars. Presented by “top” radio presenter Mike Allen these seminars will explode the myths behind the UFO Conspiracy final[…]

This morning I met a woman who claims her dog can find its way home. On the bus. Getting both on and off at the right stop.
We’ve all seen Lassie, but I for one am sceptical. If any canine scientists out there would like to shed light on this p[…]

Finch
The problem with making words like boring, banal, decorative and pretty compliments, is that there is nothing left when a critic encounters awful spectacles like this: http://www.spencerfinch.com/[…]