Eight man coxed rowing: Okay, I had an interest in this. Not that I was interested, but this is the only competitive sport I have ever represented anything at. I coxed at University (a perfect position for someone who likes shouting at sportsmen and […]

VANISHING LONDON: The Plaza Cinema, Lower Regents Street
I liked the Plaza, it was a cheap and cheerful, and like its equally disappeared neighbour, Tower Records, seemed proud of the fact. Actually the Plaza, much like Tower records, wasn’t re[…]

I took my first painkiller in over ten years last night. The rumours of my unbreakablility it seems have been exaggerated. I always assumed that it was a temporary state of luck and would end soon after I hit thirty. Well I go eleven months grace on […]

On the way in to see Control Room at the ICA, there was a photocopied sign which told me that I would also be able to see the documentary on BBC2 on Saturday 21st August. This was ten days ago so I think I might have been able to hold my fire to save[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log
I hate the Olympics, and much like the Soviet Bloc in 1984 am boycotting them. However this boycott is jolly hard to effect; it is difficult with the mass media coverage. So I shall blog here when I actually accidentally catch t[…]

I missed the Great British Beer Festival this year. I was not the only one. During my stay in Dumfries and Galloway we stumbled across the Sulwath Brewery in Castle Douglas. They had not been invited. Obviously Olympia is limited in space, neverthele[…]

OVERGROUND RIVERS : 1 – The Thames
There has been a resurgence of interest in the underground rivers of London of late. Great romantic tomes have been concocted about the Fleet and the Wandle, almost to the detriment of the overground rivers. I[…]

WASPS WOULD BE RUBBISH ON ROBOT WARS
Not just because they are not robots, because in word, deed and attitude they are barely seperate from the Cyberman’s old pets Cybermats*. No-one like wasps after all. They look evil, sting and are always in[…]

MORE ON THE EXPLODING SMOOTHIE MENACE
Do these Pret A Manger smoothies come with warnings on?

Freakytrigger reader Stuart McSkimming sent in this example which went, like a hand-grenade, after just three hours. Goodness me, I feel a consumer campaig[…]

Look at the name. This is no piddling fire, this is an inferno. And as infernos go, this one towers over you. A behemoth of burning, I give you The Towering Inferno.
The film is nowhere near as good as its name, though it does try. Paul Newman AND St[…]