I wrote a recommendation of the ten best of Marvel’s Essential volumes a long time ago. Finally DC picked up the baton and are putting out similar volumes – over 500 B&W pages of vintage comic reprints on cheap paper for around £11 […]

two christmases ago my mum’s present was the money to buy a nice casserole dish, but the one i chose at john lewis was sold out by the time i went in to get it, and then never in stock — anyway i found it in habitat a month or so back, an[…]

Tracks:
In Yer Face – 808 State
Gravity’s Rainbow – Klaxons (Van She Remix)
Vans – The Pack
Roscoe – Midlake
Knock ‘Em Out – Lily Allen
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Best wishes for the injured. Always taken as read in a story like this one of an accident on a theme park roller-coaster. But the question of the fun value of roller-coasters and fairground rides rears its head. Because we instinctively feel the fear[…]

On the surface this story should make me happy. After all, one less performance of “Imagine” in the world is something to celebrate – a drop in the ocean but a tiny step forward towards the world Lennon dreamed of. “Imagine a[…]

Sandi Thom’s Tooting. Tanya could not have said it better herself. From the mighty Popjustice.[…]

“When you first left me
I was wanting more
But you were fucking that girl next door
What did you do that for?”
As a girl, you would think that I would sympathise with Ms Allen’s plight here. But my sympathies are squarely with this[…]

Finally saw Dead Man’s Chest last night. Enjoyed on the whole the loud, whizzy nonsense whilst walking out with a car load of issues. These are not issues which are going to overly concern me, but – daer raeder – if you can answer a[…]

In the pub last night the subject of SLAINE came up. Or more specifically, “Is Slaine still going and if so, how in Gods name?”.
 (What’s that? Oh, OK. A comic strip in 2000AD, m’lud, about a barbarian with a big axe.)
A litt[…]

There was a divide in role-playing between people who treated it as a small-scale, modular wargame and people who treated it as a way to tell stories interactively. (You could argue for a third type of player, who treated the games as a way to enact […]