I just read that the first ever “op ed page” appeared in the New York Times in 1970 (21 September) — “op ed” as in space handed over to rival blowhards, to counter the editorial pages (which are as old as newspapers the[…]

1978 hits include:
– Youre The One That I Want (& all other Grease)
– Take a Chance on Me
– Wuthering Heights
– 3 Times A Lady
– YMCA
– Rivers Of Babylon
Wed-tastic![…]

Do you know you are famous when
a) They make a comic book of your life?
or
b) Said comicbook is so detailed it depicts your circumcision?[…]

Perfection is a different quality from excellence. I need to make this clear before I start talking about Sky High. What I am talking about, with regards to perfection here, is the idea that there is no conceivable way that the final film could have […]

The Jimmy Castor Bunch – “Troglodyte”
I can’t remember who introduced me to this song – Mike Daddino, most likely! – but it’s been a perennial playlist favourite ever since. It’s outrageously simple &#8[…]

It was a dark, stormy night and as we tried to get home we hit a nasty bump in the road. My girlfriend, who was driving, thought she had run over a dog so stopped the car. We got out, but there was nothing there. However when we got back in the car, […]

Regular readers of Freaky Trigger will know that we’re sceptical about blaming all kinds of ills on ‘marketing’, because most marketers are rubbish bunglers and the whole thing tends to be based on very shaky statistics and assumpti[…]