Calendars
My girlfriend bought me a West Ham calendar yesterday. January 26th is followed by the 27th, the 38th, then back to the 29th. Unfortunately, like last year’s play-off final, Crystal Palace have gone one better and missed out April alt[…]

Totally Magnificent Football Diversions
I regularly visit the messageboard associated with When Saturday Comes and two recent threads have provided much amusement and interest which to me represent the best of the interweb.
The first is where posters[…]

“Top of the league, and we’re having a laugh…”
Actually, I wasn’t. You could not call me a fairweather fan, considering that the first Barnet game I went to was on one of the coldest days of the year. Nevertheless I am a[…]

“Always a wonderfully dangerous choice”
Reef to win Best British Live Act then…[…]

The Last Battle by CS Lewis
I re-read this book over the xmas holiday because the slip-case collection of Narnia books that I read as a child turned up in a relative’s garage, and because of a coincident interview with Phillip Pullman on the S[…]

Oh no.
One of the side effects of the first Band Aid single was that every tragedy had an associated charity single. There are two rationales for any charity single – raise awareness and raise money. In general it’s hard to get too upset […]

Explaining one of my new years resolutions the other day (to not fart in public places) there was a remark that this would be dangerous. Apparently said person thought the gasses would build up inside me and make me explode. The same person later sai[…]

Riding Giants proves more than many of last years cinema documentaries that as long as you get your structure right, you can make anything interesting. I am not someone who is vaguely interested in extreme sports, and surfings only boon in my life ha[…]

An OLD MAN and a WISE MAN are sitting on a bench.
WISE MAN: Tell me, Old Man, if you had one piece of advice to give young students, what would it be?
OLD MAN: I would tell them to be neither too proud or too ashamed of their music taste. The music y[…]

Judge for yourself as long as the link works. My immediate thought was “This reminds me of nothing so much as Siouxsie’s “Face to Face” song from the second Batman run through a squelchifier” crossed with Disco Tex&#821[…]