Random Cats site found on Digg the other day. Fun if you have HALF AN HOUR to spend looking at them all. More fun that hitting refresh on your favourite off-line bulletin board.[…]

Notes On A Scandal is a well made adaptation of a good, yet difficult book. Both are compelling, yet uncomfortable to watch and read. The impending sense of sadness and tragedy which fill both cannot exactly be described as entertainment – whic[…]

FORM from St Custards. Host Tim, guests Tom, Pete, Sarah. The Wall, favourites streets in london, Dragonette – Competition, Comping, dr druqs and the stranglers, hoaxing and the monk, The WHO – won’t get fooled again, Dr Brand and TOTP, Shocking Blue – Never Marry a Railroad man, Changelings and Centaurs, Bird Flu – MIA.

Next week, DC Thomson are launching Beano MAX, not a low-sugar version of the popular kids’ comic but instead a giant size, kind-of-monthly publication with longer stories “designed to give these well-known characters more depth”.
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Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Love Hammer – Layo & Bushwacka! v MC Hammer (Outlaws bootleg)
Rattled Little Clam – Lullaby Baxter
Oh, MJ! – The Little Ones (stereolab vocal remix)
Painted By Numbers – The Sounds (more&[…]

“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

Is there another major thoroughfare in London that has such a great array of divers buildings as Fleet Street?

Three Wren churches (OK, so St Clements Danes is *just* Aldwych), The deco majesty of the Express Building, the Protestant Truth Society, […]

Not a review proper — tho I should do one — but just a note of a curious fact about William Mayne’s EARTHFASTS trilogy: viz Earthfasts (1966); Cradlefasts (1995); and Candlefasts (2000). The stories are about (inadvertent) time-trav[…]

Indexed Indexed! Matthew over at fluxblog linked to this marvellous collection of GRAPHS OF STUFF. and what could possibly be better than GRAPHS (and Venn Diagrams) OF STUFF??? Nothing, that’s what.[…]

Blood & Chocolate is a werewolf movie. But its not a horror movie. It is a werewolf movie in the same way Interview With The Vampire was a vampire movie, ie its a load of ole goth nonsense about how kewl, but not kewl, it is to be a werewolf. It[…]