Dissensus: sincere best wishes and good luck to Matt, Mark and co. with this project (a new message board).[…]

Hidden secrets of nursery rhymes: lit crit equivalent of “The Magic Roundabout is all about drugs”, surely? And why is the book title a Smiths reference?[…]

This is another record I like.

It’s called “De Reklamation” by German band Wir Sind Helden. The basic idea seems to be a fairly loving recreation of the sound of early 80s cusp-of-pomposity new wave (or Neue Deutsche Welle if we&#8[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
18. Your Boss Checking Your Internet Usage
The modern office provides few experiences more unnerving than when the IT department takes over your PC remotely. You watch helplessly as your mouse pointer skitters th[…]

The Limits Of Soul
Discussion in the comments box here about “Eleanor Rigby” and the possibility of somebody covering it well. LondonLee posits the line “wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door” as a sticking poin[…]

End this face-changing madness! I cry over at Proven By Science. There is no question that CGI techniques have totally changed how documentaries are presented, though. I saw Panorama for the first time in ages on Sunday night, a documentary in which […]

Imagine my horror when I clicked on the BBC Website to find a picture of Alan Titchmarsh devolved by computer graphics magic into a Neanderthal. This wizardry was to illustrate his “Natural History Of Britain” series, latest in the long l[…]

It’s That Time Again…
Five reasons to come to October’s Freaky Trigger club night on Thursday 28th.
1. As usual it’s going to be a lot of fun.
2. Guest DJs! This month we have MIGHTY MARTIN SKIDMORE bringing the soul power and[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
19. Death
The first death I can remember was also perhaps the purest. A kid at school was running on the athletics track and collapsed. In the second or two it took a teacher to reach him he had died. A brain hae[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.21: Heights
Not everyone is scared of heights. I wasn’t. I remember scampering about on some scaffolding at the top of Chartres Cathedral on a school trip: I didn’t play chicken like some of the other[…]