ok it is the morning after my ear-candle experiment

and i have to report i. my ear is still mildly blocked (as before) plus also ii. i am not in any way suffering from burns iii. my hair did not catch fire iv. my flat did not catch fire
OTOSAN (wh[…]

I wrote this in June, during the NFT’s awesome Antonioni season. Anyhoo, it makes no sense at all now that ‘The Passenger’ is getting a re-release, but maybe I don’t want Antonioni’s film to become another ‘Big Red[…]

On a documentary about space travel on the Discovery channel today: “The concept of a warp drive is like a moving walkway in the airport – you compress space-time in front of you, and expand it behind you.”
Yes, exactly like a movin[…]

ok i am PSYCHED yet SPOOKED!!
i. afflicted as i still am by CüRSE of CRåZYFRøG ear, i hunted round various “health” shops this mornin for an EAR CANDLE, but to no avail ii. then i wz havin lunch w.sistrah becky and quizzed her abt ear[…]

Another rub pun, and another link to a BBC News story, as, Frobjous Day, the brits prove themselves best at pretending to be human in the annual Loebner Prize.
Unfortunately, the Jabberwacky site is a little over-subscribed at the mo, so i don’[…]

It turns up at the end of the article, but the delayed reaction makes it all the more pleasing. Hooray for the Freedom Of Information Act!
Anti-Welsh Probe Cost £3,800[…]

It is like The Butterfly Effect, but the use of frogs in pregnancy tests has now spread a fungal disease which is wiping out amphibians. Hooray for old wives tales!
The wholesale importation of one species to another continent alarmingly has this kin[…]

One of the persistent awkward issues for writers of superhero comics is getting their top villains out of jail and back into the storylines. Many treat it as if there is no problem, and the villains have just escaped and that’s all there is to […]

A Chomp was a cheap chocolate flavoured chew. Defined as such as it had barely sniffed a cocoa bean in its life, and rather was a collection of chemicals wrapped on a wham bar which simulated chocolate. It was about 8p, and since you could buy a prop[…]

Bits of Nick Southall’s latest Stylus essay fits comfortably into a growing trend, anxiety over download culture and the hyperconsumption it allows. The cynic in me suggests that critics worry about this new world because it’s harder to f[…]