A whole kilo of MEAT
The Robster and I went to Prague for the weekend, and we spent some time looking at pretty buildings and fannying around in the snow before getting down to the real business at hand: beer. Much of this splendid substance was con[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
85. Teddybears STHLM ft Mad Cobra – “Cobrastyle”
If I was a real music journalist I would look forward most to the part of the job where you make up new genres! I think I would make up a genre which would includ[…]

narnian bible studies: or good beast/bad beast
ok there are dozens of spots in the chronicles of narnia where you think EXCUSE ME just what kind of xtianity does mr clive staples lewis think he is propagandisin FOR plz thkyou, eg in last battle alon[…]

WBS’ last UK Top 40 thread: William has fought the good pop fight, and finally came up against the one foe (OK, two foes) that he could not beat. Hats off to an entertaining feature, finger up to JK and Joel.
Now is as good a time as any, thoug[…]

Watch out, Spider-Man!

Too late!

What is the secret of his awesome power??

The cover of this masterpiece.
Danger: logo abuse![…]

Walking With Myths has been my #1 why-isn’t-this-on-TV idea for years now: using spiffy CGI beast-animation technology to bring to life loads of fake animals* with a narration that asks if and why people believed in them in the first place. Now[…]

The Last Dragon
I can’t decide whether this was a phenomenally stupid or fantastically brilliant idea. Obviously we are used to drama-doc versions of scientific discoveries, and we are accustomed now to CGI versions of wildlife documentaries &#[…]

Call that an ‘influence’?
It’s odd and unpredictable, the personal influences that can mar a film. I just watched Nasima Oshima’s Gohatto, a rather lovely and tense film of love and jealousy among a samurai corps. There’[…]

The Physics Detective Part Seven — Ludmilla, I Am Your Father
Truly, we are not worthy. I thought I had concocted a scandalous resolution to this story, but it turns out that my dirty thoughts have been soundly trumped. Clearly, the likes of […]

why the WEST WING is so brilliant part a squillion
ok the ep wz the part two of the zoe=kidnapped story, which closed the series just broadcast on c4, and all through the early part of this last ep mark s = “ambushed” by “unexpecte[…]