HOUND from Sirius. Host Kat, guests Sarah, Alix and Katie (and Steve). Gin inna can, Crufts 1, crossbreeds, Friends for Life, Dogs were Barking – Gogol Bordello, Dogging Forecast, baconbaconbaconbacon, dogfood, Stop Me – The Smiths, eating yorkies, Crufts 2, stuffed dogs, dog names, wagatha christie, air bud digression, it’s a dog life – ??, Crufts 3, good dog/bad dogs, Maximise – Rex the Dog.

With the Trigger’s thoughts turning increasingly dogward, it strikes me as a good moment to alert the unaware among our readers to the Space Canine Patrol Agents. This team of crimefighting hounds made brief appearances in the pages of 60s Supe[…]

PP3 Turn the Page – Blind Guardian
CC3 You Ain’t Ready – Yummy Bingham
CC2 More Than Friends (That’s Right) – 3LW
Sumthin’ Serious – Audio Club
PP1 Ladino Song – Oi Va Voi
CC1 Set Out Running – […]

ok i haven’t read an agatha christie since i wz about ten so i have embarked on an ODYSSEY OF MIDDLECLASS CRIME, working my way through the new christie “by decades” collections — which means i began with THE SECRET ADVERSARY […]

At the annual Tween’ Christmas And New Year Freaky Trigger Pub Crawl we always do a list. Such themed lists in the past have included the FT Top 100 Films Of All Time Ever 2003 and the FT Top 100 Songs. Many are started and not finished. But th[…]

In the interest of fair reportage, it falls to me to point out the existence of Scruffts, the Kennel Club’s competition for crossbreed dogs. Instead of taking skull measurements and grabbing genitals, the judges at Scruffts look for “good[…]

further to lollardry chat last sunday, a bunch of US pol-blog ultranerds examine the relationship between neocon philosophy and pop culture in regard to superheroes, D&D and — of course — BEARDS!
(see also: the Green Lantern Theory of[…]

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I trust you all watched the first of Adam Curtis’s new documentary on freedom last night (The Trap, repeated BBC4 surely, so look out for it.) It might have left you in a state of paralysis as he traced the impact that a strain of game theory h[…]

Important BASH STREET KIDS news (following up on yesterday’s Lollards): it’s sadly too late – both in closing date and in age of readers terms – for FT staff to enter Blue Peter’s competition to “create a new Bash […]