PUB SCIENCE
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Let’s see if our brains still work
Myself and Alan were in the pub last night reading the paper, and we started to panic about our brains. Possibly something you do when downing intoxicants, how much of our brains which the gover[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
90. The Only Ones – “Another Girl Another Planet”
I cannot remember how, or why I had tickets to see The One, Peter Perrett’s mid-nineties bands playing on the fact that The Only Ones were no longer the on[…]

The first series of Look Around You was a pastiche of a certain type of School’s science TV from the late seventies. It was short, sweet and really rather funny. The new series has been stretched to half an hour, is now more of a parody of earl[…]

In February Blog Seven is a Blog about love. Yeuch! What sappy nonsense I hear all the fourteen year old regulars round here go. But truth be told an obscene number of regular contributors are loved-up and go home to their sig others, wives and concu[…]

One Line Reviews:
Sideways: Middle aged depressive breaks drink driving laws constantly in order to find happiness.
Turtles Can Fly: Mr Magoo Jr, played for tragedy on the border of Iraq.
A Very Long Engagement: Amnesia, trauma and shell-shock is no[…]

The Politics Of The Future II: From ultra-market, to communism: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. Written in the eighties, when the idea of China’s economic plan was only just taking shape, a world dominated by China’s communism was[…]

The all new Assault On Precinct 13 is good value for money. A Frankenstein film of epic proportions, it gobbles up the original (an odd word given this plot) Die Hard 2, The Matrix and any film in which Gabriel Byrne has been rubbish in (all of them)[…]

My soundtrack hell:
Problem 1 with Closer
It opens with a really dull Damien Rice song.
Problem 2 with Closer
It closes with the same really dull Damien Rice song.
The bits in between are okay, but hearing the same rubbish song twice is more than a m[…]

Rodney Marsh’s tsunami / toon army pun was pretty poor, truth be told. Was it offensive? No. Of course not. So why has Rodney been vilified in this way?
Obviously post Ron Atkinson (who was racist and was a rare example of political correctness[…]

The Politics Of The Future I: Science fiction is often not THAT speculative about science. Postulating future politics is almost as much fun. Perhaps for satirical effect, or for plot reasons, or just for fun: mooting a future society does mean gett[…]