I thought it was important to keep tabs on the machinations of Underworld: Evolution. But I also thought it equally important not to swell the coffers of the lousy film-makers responsible. So I snuck in. Missing the first couple of minutes, which I b[…]

Been using it for years, and this has never popped into my mind until a couple of days ago. A query regarding our old firey friend Ginger.
Why is ginger ginger? Or more accurately, why are ginger people ginger? All the ginger I have ever eaten has be[…]

I run elections, and the buzzword in my election field is e-voting. Why? Well its a pain in the arse counting pieces of paper for one. Secondly, voting is traditionally going down so the mantra goes, anything which makes voting easier is a good thing[…]

One can imagine some sort of Gallic CSI wasting hundreds of man-hours on this case: namely that of a murdered woman that they could not identify because it turns out the body was 500 years older than first imagined. Why they did not cut through her l[…]

Well at least we know that he can probably survive the tirals and tribulations of prison.
Huzzah, everyone loves a “winner is loser” story.[…]

What do you think of when someone says Isabel Allende? The House Of The Spirits? Nice solid family saga type storytelling? Eva Luna?
Zorro?
I know. That’s why I picked it up at the library. What was Isabel Allende doing writing something calle[…]

Those of us whose bodies were hard-wired in the 1970’s often accidentally slip into the trap of repeating past behaviour. Habit, I believe the behaviourists call this. Anyway, one of my worst habits is typing www.freakytrigger.com, the poor los[…]

Peter Sarsgaard and Stellan Skarsgård are not related.
I know, it makes it really difficult to make glib comparisons (where none are appropriate) between their acting. And watching Jarhead at the weekend I realised just how many Peter Sarsgaard movi[…]

I don’t know what the response rate is to Bodyform’s latest hard hitting billboard campaign. “1 IN 5 WOMEN ARE LET DOWN EVERY MONTH BY THEIR SANITARY PROTECTION”. It seems like a rallying call nevertheless, and one which may m[…]

In a league table for under fifteen-year-old incidences of violence, English girls come fifth in the world and Scottish sixth. This assumes they did best in the quarter finals. Eastern Europe seems to lead the way with Hungary, Estonia and Lithuania […]