1: In Her Shoes yet again goes to illustrate the general difference between Chick Flicks and Chick Lit. Chick Flicks are for women (so are usually rom coms) while Chick Lit is about women. In Her Shoes, is Chick Lit made into a film, and therefore th[…]

Wanting to top up the meat, I stopped off in a Turkish supermarket on the way home and investigated the sausages. I plumped for a large thick baton style of beef sausage, as they had always intrigued me in the past. I also bought some sauerkraut, som[…]

Stories like this are very funny as Ananova quirkies: the Swiss boycotting kebabs because of violence after the football with Turkey. But they do highlight the stupidity of knee jerk cultural assumptions. The entire British public as far as I remembe[…]

MY BIG POT is an experiment in stewing. The primary objects of this experiment is myself and MY BIG POT. I do not have a photo of MY BIG POT but will endeavor to supply soon. Suffice to say MY BIG POT is very big and holds about 15 litres of stew, if[…]

For much of its screening time The Brothers Grimm is incoherent, out of focus, edited by a pair of garden shears and played through some overpowered i-Pod speakers. None of these elements on its own are enough to make it great, though in combination […]

Two weekends ago anyone in the know was not watching the cricket, nor the various codes of Rugby. Even the England Argentina footie game lacked the requisite drama provided by the only sporting choice of the congniscenti.
That’s right. The Web[…]

or WATCH. In particular their annual list of the their top ten most dangerous toys. The list includes some boring choking hazards plus things which look and are designed as weapons which are being used as weapons.
In particular : Thing Hands (used to[…]

I prefer the Primula vs Kraft debate, but nethertheless Stephen Grant here explains why its a bit of a red herring in his opinion in the comics world. Its a nicely balanced piece, clearly going via the detour of punk (well of course) and has the kind[…]

So Madonna’s song Frozen has been banned from Belgium. Not because of its implicit criticisms of the European policy on climate change, but rather that she has lost a plagiarism case on the song in the Belgian courts. Apparently it sounds a fai[…]

Is there much of a market for snarky comic pastiches of turn of the century adventure fiction? You’d think perhaps not, but then there shouldn’t be a market for dried up old harridans writing a book about grammar, but there was. Of course[…]