As Crufts 2007 reaches its climax, the national and local press have been giving plenty of column space to doggy-related stories this week. It seems that the canine world can be pretty ruff sometimes. Oho! (more…)[…]

CLASS from the Maze of Zagor. Host Tom, guests Mark, Alex and Magnus (and Pete). Things that have changed in britain, death of capt america/baudrillard, reggae reggae sauce, Surrender – Cheap Trick, reflections on genre, Kronos Quartet – Spoonful, more genre, Little Drummer Boy – Joan Jett, school stories and digression into where people went to school, stalky and the bash st kids, Making Plans for Nigel – Nouvelle Vague, Role-Playing Games and character class, Eton Rifles – The Jam.

I didn’t like Dirrrrrrrty when I first heard it. Indeed I probably heard it about twenty times before I finally got it. And that is when I saw it. I remember exactly where this was. In a hotel room in Brussels, Belgium.
How many moments of your[…]

Who Likes Who – Jordan Pruitt
12 Bar Acid Blues – Siobhan Donaghy
Song 4 Mutya – Groove Armada
Sexy Twilight Back – Justin Timberlake v 2 Unlimited
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Novaspace (more…)[…]

Major development for Captain America (for now, anyway). Cap – strangely for such an “iconic” creation – is probably the character who has changed the most, tonally, in my comics reading lifetime. This latest event seems pitc[…]

So the most e-mailed news story at the moment on the BBC News Website* is Reggae Reggae Sauce going on sale. Seen as a triumph for the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, one assumes this is not just a good confident businessman, but a nice sauce too. […]

xrrf tell us that 395,000 people have now registered for Glastonbury, ie, more people registered IN THE LAST WEEK, than in the four weeks it was open in the first place. Clearly the only PROPER FAIR WAY to sort this out is not let anyone who register[…]

Now we know how mental the BBC Talking Points get. So one would imagine the humorous and pithy answers a woman moving back to the UK from Australia after thirty years would get to the question “Has anything changed?” Oh the fun, the gags […]

Marks And Spencers new Steak and Blacksticks Blue sandwich – very rich, very flavoursome (and a lovely combination of tangy cheese, sweet onion relish and steak which manages to hold its own against both). Also very expensive – though it[…]

Last night I went to the Islington Academy and I saw:
Acoustical Big Fat Andy Cairns from Therapy?
Neds Atomical Dustbins
Some Bloke From The Doughboys
Reuben
The Senseless Things
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
And
Mega City Four (the remaining m[…]