And it’s great! Really childish, really fun, scattershot crazyness. He’s obviously a bit of a goth*, but there are a lot worse problems of some other creators i admire.
I buy so few comics any more, but with a little time to kill the othe[…]

(“He was an awfully big marine.”)
Here’s a sketch riffing on this standard ending to many urban legends from Lionel Nimrod’s Inexplicable World [1.1 MB mp3].
The 2nd and final series of Lee and Herring’s early radio show[…]

Richard Herring’s blog today brings news that the gang of nut jobs who think they’re christian “Christian Voice” have managed to persuade Woolies and Sainsburys to not stock SJ:TO DVD (as all the kids are calling it). Richard […]

It’s what disgruntled employees scheme for and aspire to at their farewell drinks, but only get as far as “accidentally” forwarding a telling e-mail to “everyone”. But the KLF were at the top, and their jump from the par[…]

I get up from my seat and walk to the stairs at the front. A neatly dressed woman has decided to stand at the top of the stairs so I slow to let her swing out – perhaps she’ll take my seat – but no move does she make. With the usual[…]

I’ve had a particularly good run of non-fic reads over the last few months and I thought i’d share the list with you. I would like to do full reviews of these in later posts, but i’m in the middle of the third and i’d want to […]

Sorry that ILX is offline today – this is pretty unavoidable as someone is intent on just pissing about with any thread they fancy. Something has happened on the Noise board and i don’t know what or why, but i sure know the end result. I&[…]

bbc news natch
Teachers have been ordered to tell pupils that Darwin’s theory of evolution is unproven, and that the universe is so complex that it may have been created by a higher power. … certain evolutionary explanations “are n[…]

Every day on the bus to and from work I pass BBC TV centre. For some time now there has been a large picture of Ronnie Barker in the window of their main reception, surrounded by candles. OK, a nice tribute, but I’ve always thought the candles […]

Acoustic cover versions are often as annoying as 80s-pop/00s-rap mashups (yes I’m looking at you Frente), but I couldn’t but help to go O WOW OMG!!!eleven at an ad (for a telly and on telly) that had an acoustic cover of The Knife’s[…]