Maybe I am not of the right age range, or the general indifference of the public towards Sugar Baby Love is actually restricted to me. But is there really THAT MUCH money in going on tour as the Rubettes in this day and age? They’re no Bucks Fi[…]

A History of Violence is a surprisingly funny film. For a melodramatic, tragic and graphic dissection of Hollywood, America and people relationship with violence. Many of the gags are those uneasy black ones, when you see someone’s head blown o[…]

I wuv potatoes. This is a fact that no publog reader can ignore. My favouirte cookbook is In Praise Of The Potato by Lindsey Bareham, and my second favourite is A Celebration Of Soup by – er – Lindsey Bareham (you find a food writer you l[…]

The Campaign against Political Correctness: somebody had to start it, the duty has fallen to one Laura Ridgeley, and we should be glad it’s as rubbish as it is. You know what this is going to look like even before you click on it, and in a way […]

Ah, now this is more like. Whilst chapter eight does not go out and say it directly, it is clear that a chapter called External Intelligence is buttering us up for the first of our master builders: ALIEUMS. As it is, it is a relatively well balanced […]

Don’t ask what I was doing on the Daily Mail website. Actually, do ask. I was sent a link by long term Daily Mail reader Dave Boyle (HELLO GOOGLE!) about the rightful punishment of some football yobbo or other. While there I stumbled across a v[…]

But it isn’t. What is the most frightening thing about zombies. And that’s George Romero’s zombies, not the fast sort you see in remakes. Is it the shambling incessant nature of their attack. Is it the horror of them ripping the fle[…]

The story of apparitional animals is much more than just ghost riders in the sky and ghoulish horsemen riding their horse and coaches to Wycoller! The most prevalent animal boggart has always tended to be the Black Dog, with Grimm-bros saucers or di[…]

EVOLUTION by John Peel, featuring the Fourth Doctor (w00+!), Sarah-Jane Smith, Rudyard Kipling. Arthur Canon-Doyle and A FERAL HOUND…
‘Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell’, the Doctor said darkly, ‘perverting it’s secrets[…]

Jenny Holzer’s latest project continues her move from texts written by herself to texts written by other people.
This time, for a few weeks in New York, she is scrolling excerpts from Abu Gharib Pentagon Reports, the 9/11 commission Report, an[…]