How Soon We Forget!
Greeting me at the tube the last couple of morning has been a poster for HUFF, a new sitcom starring Hank Azaria. “At last” sez one of the pull quotes, “Hank Azaria gets the starring vehicle he deserves…&#8[…]

The first series of Look Around You was a pastiche of a certain type of School’s science TV from the late seventies. It was short, sweet and really rather funny. The new series has been stretched to half an hour, is now more of a parody of earl[…]

In February Blog Seven is a Blog about love. Yeuch! What sappy nonsense I hear all the fourteen year old regulars round here go. But truth be told an obscene number of regular contributors are loved-up and go home to their sig others, wives and concu[…]

Translated Accounts by James Kelman
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this. It’s a bunch of short pieces, fragments, from a handful of narrators (three or four, the back cover says, and I’ll take its word for it), about living u[…]

Day 16: Seymour
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
The ache in my shoulder was incessant, like the purgatorial ache of a bass guitar yoked around my neck. Instead however I was yoked to this perky young rap fan who had spent much of the previous nigh[…]

The Big Bang and How We Came To Know It.
The newest book by Simon Singh, simply entitled “Big Bang”, has garnered many fantastic reviews (for example, Scientific American, Toronto Globe and Mail, Guardian). I haven’t seen it yet, b[…]

One Line Reviews:
Sideways: Middle aged depressive breaks drink driving laws constantly in order to find happiness.
Turtles Can Fly: Mr Magoo Jr, played for tragedy on the border of Iraq.
A Very Long Engagement: Amnesia, trauma and shell-shock is no[…]

Fake Dancehall vs Real Dancehall: very interesting ILM thread started by Chuck Eddy. So interesting that I almost posted – but what’s the answer?
I think the difference is one of inclusivity – the ‘real’ stuff in these s[…]

In January 2005 Blog 7 was a blog about resolutions.[…]

Even more on Team America: World Police…
Leaving aside the slightly absurd suggestion that Michael Moore poses as much of a threat to the world as suicide bombers and terrorists, does anyone else find something a little distasteful about Parker[…]