On the huge ever growing sidebar that rules from the centre of the Triggerworld you will see a section called “Current Poll” (down there, look, under the archivey bit).
We will be using this function to POLL you the FT readership on one o[…]

I had noticed over the last few months that there had been an increase in both the amount and the variety of non-english (or “Uxbridge” [0]) Diet Coke that was making its way into the sandwich shops I frequent around the Covent Garden are[…]

robemo of the greenteenwood: grebt
maid chubsy pie-face: grebt
much the timelord’s grandson: grebt
john little’s little son little john little: grebt
merrymen’s not-so-merry wives: grebt
sherriff of nottingham’s prescient analysis of the emer[…]

The Rentaghost I remember watching was the pantomine-horse era, with that Scottish woman and Audrey off Coronation Street, and it was never a favourite show, more a nice-to-have-it-around deal. So watching a DVD of the first season was interesting, i[…]

I mean its clear what Queen’s Greatest Hits Volume III was trying to tell us: they did not have that many hits. Brian May’s ad jingle (Driven By You), The Great Pretender and some Wyclef Jean old man rap cover barely pads the thing out. B[…]

I Can’t Help Myself – The Gems
Soulful Dress – Sugar Pie Desanto
Love Hangover (Extended) – Diana Ross
I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince
Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg – TLC (more…)[…]

I don’t know the origin of this Google Video, twelve minutes of marble heavy Heath Robinsonesque devices. I do know that it is wonderfully soothing to watch and the (let’s say its Japanese) little Japanese tune at the end of every success[…]

The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy ji[…]

If it had a cold.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s first film as writer-director, and by a staggering cosmic coincidence, the first film I got from Amazon DVD rental. Having read and liked some of his blockbuster manga telling this story, I was keen to see this. Was I disappoin[…]