The Mighty Thor is one of the luckiest characters in comics history. He had the good fortune to be first published at the dawn of the ‘Marvel era’, and has been firmly hitched to Marvel’s starry wagon ever since. Why “good for[…]

Changing Rooms
Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a “warp coil” said: “I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.
But I was wrong.”[…]

Watch this, the trailer to Brokeback To The Future.
A joke that manages to sustain itself above and beyond its one line premise.[…]

I thought it was important to keep tabs on the machinations of Underworld: Evolution. But I also thought it equally important not to swell the coffers of the lousy film-makers responsible. So I snuck in. Missing the first couple of minutes, which I b[…]

Been using it for years, and this has never popped into my mind until a couple of days ago. A query regarding our old firey friend Ginger.
Why is ginger ginger? Or more accurately, why are ginger people ginger? All the ginger I have ever eaten has be[…]

I run elections, and the buzzword in my election field is e-voting. Why? Well its a pain in the arse counting pieces of paper for one. Secondly, voting is traditionally going down so the mantra goes, anything which makes voting easier is a good thing[…]

A tiny piece of gaming history made itself available to me yesterday – this PDF of White Dwarf #1. I’d never seen a copy before but its instantly evocative.
Of what? Not my gaming past exactly – WD had brightened up its act by the t[…]

NAM JUNE PAIK 1932-2006
Last time I was in New York, in 1994, interview Phill Niblock for this, we left his studio for a meal when we were done, and as we were crossing the road — somewhere in Chinatown, I forget where — Niblock pointed, […]

This show baffles me a bit. Playing it—and I use ‘playing’ in the loosest sense; this is barely a game at all—involves no skill whatsoever. No intelligence (or, more specifically,no general knowledge), no memory-skills, nothing physical. In f[…]