Top analysis of the Bad Wolf conundra by mysterious livejournal user.
A question: when is the last time a TV series went into its final episode with this much mystery/speculation going on? OK yes we’re fans and on the Interweb, this isn’t[…]

Stylus singles jukebox – I didn’t like the records any more than last week but I made a little more effort with the blurbs. I owe William B Swygart a favour for sparing my blushes as I sleepily mis-identified the Missy “Lose Control[…]

At some point in the last week I worked out that Malcolm Middleton is singing ‘My loneliness shines’ on the song called, erm, ‘Loneliness Shines’ which has been all over 6Music, not as I had originally heard ‘my woman i[…]

Subtitle: Great British Festivals where injuries are inevitable.
What’s the origin? No-one really knows and so out come the traditional explanations like harvest festival and test of virility. Medieval Jackass in other words.
The gradient of th[…]

Eyes put people off. Bones too I guess. And if you are squeamish about offal, then eating a whole fish will include all of that. So some people don’t like whitebait because it all goes down the same hole. The fact that said liver, bowels and ey[…]

Be: DJ Lance Lockarm
Take: Ready for the World‘s Prince/fakeBritfop genius mid-eighties classic “Oh Sheila” — make sure it is the a capella version
Take: Black Strobe‘s ‘ve make you dance the industrial body pun[…]

To the more technically adept or adventurous I have an experiment for you to take part in. On my mac is a 140MB folder called “UK Number 1s 150-199”. I downloaded the new beta of BitTorrent that supports TRACKERLESS torrents and I have ma[…]

my old friend p, just arrived in trinidad for a family funeral, txts me:
“it is a very small village, jungle-like really, and guess what? someone is playing COLDPLAY!”[…]

or piss off progress part deux[…]

It is so strange. It refutes the nobility of poverty that is so
canonical in country. Though it features grinding poverty, welfare
taking the children away, and dying babies, it also has a mother selling
her child into white slavery. But the oddest t[…]