This month I resolved to abolish a tube station. Tooting Broadway, you are dead to me. Well, almost dead. Ailing, maybe.
The idea was to walk a bit more, combined with a general tendency to eat a bit less. From that point of view, it’s been a g[…]

PR Nightmare:
Scientists find tumour-causing gene – hurrah!
Scientists give tumour-causing gene lawsuit-causing name – pika! pika![…]

GLORIA 1: THE CASE OF THE BILINGUAL BALLOONS
Thankyou for your many comments on the thorny question of whether Nena’s German original “99 Luftballons” is better than “99 Red Balloons”. We have fed the two records, your c[…]

SCOOTER – “Shake That!”
There is a very common trope in science fiction whereby a society of the future has evolved curious and inexplicable customs which turn out to have – oh irony – been based on misunderstandings of […]

Yes please.
1. This is 2 weeks before my birthday.
2. WarioWare Touched, that will do nicely.
3. One of the other launch titles is called PROJECT RUB![…]

Disco! Disco! DIS-DIS-DISCO!
Told you it would be a good one.
My head is a little bit sore today so I may not get around to firing up The Poptimizer in order for it to take its Nena decision.
Here’s a question, though. What is the most danceabl[…]

Sad tale: I am sure that many of the comics creators I grew up reading are now poor as a church mouse, but unlike most of them Messner-Loebs was actually very good, and read as likeable as this story makes him seem. Strong characters, quirky and surp[…]

Drool[…]

THE GLORIAS
A new NYLPM feature – will it get as far as its third entry? You decide! Well, no, I decide probably.
A few years ago I was reading a comic called Starman. The hero of Starman is, frankly, a big nerd. This particular issue had him t[…]

Brandwatch Special: Girls Allowed
I suspect marketing people are a bit divided over Yorkie’s now-quite-long-running “NOT FOR GURLS” campaign. Innovative? Yes. Patronising? Probably. A joke worn thin through repetition? Well…. […]