I realised last night that one of the things I enjoy about Eurovision is that it seems like a museum of pop: leaving aside the more ersatz ethnic elements liberally spooned over some of the entrants, this is mostly an extraordinary collage of past an[…]

“NOTEBOOKS OUT PLAGIARISTS!”[…]

Good question huh? Would you leave an oversized, over-powered infant in charge of a super-powered robot? Indeed the question is begged why would he want to operate said robot in the first place when his prime directive is to SMASH!
Answer. To sell to[…]

You Are What You Listen To
In response to the findings in the article, the whole world commented, “DUH”.
“Another participant was worried about what his co-workers would think of the Justin Timberlake and Michael McDonald music he […]

From China, international home of the quirky, a rare story which isn’t somehow related to eggs.[…]

The more I thought about seeing Tarnation, the more my brain started splitting the words up to become Tar Nation, a film about a country complete tarmacadamed. In such a fictional land our hero Jonathon would be a very poor lawnmower salesman, until […]

Eurovision Day 2. Nowadays the Key Facts everyone knows about the contest is that it’s enjoyed by gay people and it’s a fit-up. In more innocent times what people knew about Eurovision is that it was always won by songs with nonsense titl[…]

NO SCOOTER IN THIS PUB EITHER
frank kogan on pub rock
(the “experts” referred to may have been ME haha)[…]

I’m a big fan of Taschen, and own quite a lot of their art books. Most of them are excellent. I saw a fat Taschen book on Japanese comics, entitled Manga, at a reduced price, so thought it would be good. It runs to nearly 600 pages, and there&#[…]

I knew I was the target market for this book by page 10, “have you ever wondered why TSV Munich have 1860 as a suffix when the German game didn’t get off the ground until the 1890s?” It’s precisely the sort of thing I have pon[…]