Server Glitch
I’ve had a couple of emails asking where all our old articles have vanished to. The answer is that they didn’t get transferred when we moved servers the other week. I have them all on backup though so I’ll put them up […]

Stevie T has a blog. Typically elegant stuff, I hope it thrives. Read in particular the interesting Green Gartside interview.[…]

What TV show had the highest ever British viewing figures?
Easy, eh? The Royal Wedding. Or the Morecambe and Wise ’78 Christmas special. Or England-Germany in 1996. Or Den and Angie, Christmas ’86. Or. Or.
It seemed like an obvious pub qu[…]

Quiz Appeal
I’m doing two quizzes at work to raise money for the Tsunami appeal. One is a pub quiz, which I’ve got pretty much sorted. The other is a pencil and paper quiz, which I haven’t. I need questions.
If you have any question[…]

“Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp”
Sounds good to me. Can’t be worse than Mike Read, anyway.[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
98. Deee-Lite – “Groove Is In The Heart”
A song that makes me feel slightly old, as it has become a standard in my listening lifetime. And a real, top-ranking standard, too, up there with “Celebration&#822[…]

Nose, Spite, Face
The theme of Blog Seven this month is resolutions. Making them, breaking them, keeping them, blogging them.
Unfortunately one of my main resolutions this month is to get Popular back on a one-track-per day average. This would mean w[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
99. Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach”
Pete says
On the day this list was made I was kindly given Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, which means that I finally own a copy of “Papa Don’t Prea[…]

Will Eisner, RIP
Vic Fluro, from the recent Top 100 Comics thread: “If you think about Pulp, or Noir, or Detective, or Storytelling, or Action, or Emotion, or Cool, or Titles or Words or Pictures or Anything that actually Works in Comics…[…]

Oh no.
One of the side effects of the first Band Aid single was that every tragedy had an associated charity single. There are two rationales for any charity single – raise awareness and raise money. In general it’s hard to get too upset […]