The shame of the (not-so) secret RI:SE fan 3 days left… Kate Lawler
RI:SE spent much of it’s final incarnation absolutely obsessed with reality TV ‘ which is terrifically ‘meta’ of it, because it was a reality TV show in[…]

The shame of the (not-so) secret RI:SE fan 4 days left… Iain Lee
RI:SE’s last week and the source for much fun-hater joy. But I for one (quite literally the only one) will be bereft. Nothing else can quite fill the gap before Bewitched/Ki[…]

I’m totally serious about the moisturising thing. It’s only been a few days, but one thing has become apparent. Despite the Nivea packaging saying that it is “odour neutral” this is obviously a complete lie ‘ as with mos[…]

Double retro as I blog a link to an essay about The Changes (the 1975 kids telly drama) on Robin Carmody’s Elidor that was put up over a year ago. Sorry to Robin for not checking his site often enough ”I remember he e-mailed me a while ba[…]

An experiment to detect the effects of using girly moisturiser on a man’s face
Diagram and Apparatus
MethodI will be applying girly moisturiser to ONE HALF OF MY FACE. Which half (left/right) is only known to 2 people. I have devised a proper d[…]

B3TA’s worst record ever poll
Makes for depressing reading really – if you like B3TA. I had no idea most B3TA readers were such fun-haters. A lot of hate for R&B a lot of casually worded violence for anything (eek) pop, and then just ran[…]

Saturday morning’s “Ever Wondered About…” regularly features the same chilled soundtrack of Lemon Jelly and Zero 7 (even now), but when they kick in to their “here’s the culture” montage, it turns over to tun[…]

What is to be done with Richard Dawkins?
RD’s contribution to the tiresome “Dear George” that The Guardian felt compelled to publish last week:
After you and Jeb stole the election (by a margin smaller than the number of folks you […]

Kit Kat Kubes are not shaped like cubes. In fact they are no shape at all*!. A kicking-cuh Kube turns out to be a shortened piece of single-finger, regliar KitKat, a fact you can’t tell until you buy the opaque and overpriced pack. If they had […]

Barefoot Cheek in the Barefoot Doctor’s face
This was mentioned in Private Eye and has just been linked in NTK too. It’s an open forum of questions for the Observer’s whacky columnist. Quote: “i poetically call myself a barefo[…]