I’ve had a particularly good run of non-fic reads over the last few months and I thought i’d share the list with you. I would like to do full reviews of these in later posts, but i’m in the middle of the third and i’d want to […]

Would it be impossible to learn not only the arts of scissor and comb but also the basic social art of knowing when somebody wants to chat to a stranger and when they don’t. Just because you have me trapped in yr chair with a blade near my thro[…]

or have the insults and heckles of teenaged hoodlums gone somewhat downhill recently? Here are some, entirely true, examples of abuse hurled at me recently on the streets of Glasgow.
4. “Here, mate, d’ye want a chip?”: This one puzz[…]

I’ve never seen Fingers. I get the feeling not many people in the UK have, and therefore short of the press notes and the credit it gets in The Beat That My Heart Skipped, why should it be mentioned? Those who have seen Fingers, rate it highly:[…]

by which i mean: pret’s “big xmas lunch” sandwich, which they wheel out every year half way through november: turkey slices, stuffing, cranberry, some leafy thing (poss.rocket)
and i buy it EVERY MORNING i come into work, like the […]

but robbing four banks while talking on yr mobile = WAY cool (in an insane kinda way)[…]

Turned out Papua New Guinea was a bit boring, so I fell asleep in a large buff envelope. This turned out to be an error as it appears that during my sleep someone must have licked and sealed the envelope and popped it in the post. Luckily for me the […]

Pity poor Shane Black. He goes away and the movies change. He comes back and makes a solid piece of Shane Black entertainment: a buddy movie (sort of) and it feels wildly out of date. Very entertaining mind you. Just a bit like Overboard in the 80&#8[…]

Sorry that ILX is offline today – this is pretty unavoidable as someone is intent on just pissing about with any thread they fancy. Something has happened on the Noise board and i don’t know what or why, but i sure know the end result. I&[…]

I notice that the BBC has tagged us as one of the sites which writes about pop music in simple language rather than using “bloglish”, which is a tool whereby The Kids confuse The Man and stop him buying their music with his so-called &#82[…]