Was this the world’s first MP3 blog? I rather think it was. A regular on the NYLPM sidebar years ago, I was reminded of Euroranch during a conversation with the charming Mr Woebot last night. It used to have a separate and very enthusiastic dow[…]

THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
No.23: Floating Alone In Space
(Note to readers: A technical hitch has arisen with this list, which was lovingly compiled in the pub by a team of FT operatives. My wife Isabel threw the list in the bin, assum[…]

Inhabitants fled in panic.: “We were so happy when we heard we had escaped an alien invasion.”[…]

Indie Amnesty Xtra:
I had a sort through the remaining Amnesty items yesterday and set aside a pile of CDs which are, frankly, total no-hopers on eBay. So I’m not going to sell them on eBay. I’m going to sell them here.
THe pile consists […]

FREAKY TRIGGER Top 25 Scariest Things
No.24: Crocodiles
Ending up as something’s lunch is an unpleasant prospect in whatever case, but crocodiles are scarier than cannibals, because being eaten alive is where the real horror lies. In a film whe[…]

My basic critical position on ‘mainstream’ comics (superhero comics, for the purposes of this post) is that they are awful and getting worse. This was based on a) my experiences reading them during the 90s and b) prejudice. Somewhat annoy[…]

Woebot on MP3 blogs: I did some thinking about MP3 blogs for that article I wrote earlier in the month. One of the things I thought – which didn’t make it into the piece – was that MP3 blogs don’t post enough tat. It’s l[…]

Gutterbreakz on Dr.Who novelisations – plus MP3s and a terrific photograph of Malcolm Clarke looking mental as he (I fondly hope) composes the music for “The Sea Devils”.[…]

NOT FOR THE NERVOUS! – lavish website devoted to Scream!, IPC’s 80s attempt at a weekly British horror comic. I did not buy Scream as I thought (wrongly I suspect) it might be frightening: I was a timid child. The comic only lasted fiftee[…]

Sports of the future!: bit of a missed opportunity this since the only advances the BBC seems able to imagine involve robo-referees of one sort of another. As we all know real actual future sport will involve jetpacks and be called something like &#8[…]