FT Top 100 Films 44: COOL RUNNINGS
Tom Says: The traditional sports film comes in two varieties – sporting hero(es) win and sporting hero(es) lose. Either is a banker; neither is sad. Losing at real actual sports is often sad but tends to be ac[…]

An Office Debate:
Colleague: “I saw some dogging yesterday in Green Park!”
All in office: “How do you get a car into Green Park?”
Colleague: “You don’t need a car! I was walking by and saw two people having sex on […]

POP FACTOR: 450 CONTROVERSY RATING: 344
Hard-won experience of life has crushed poor Avril’s enthusiasm: the instrumental hook of “My Happy Ending” is the hook of “Sk8er Boi” stuck in a sulky tar-pit. I’m gratefu[…]

My Favourite Olympical Things (So Far)
Pete I rise to your challenge!
– Tiny weightlifters. Big weightlifters are better represented by Worlds Strongest Wo/Man but the tiny ones are ace, how can they lift so much! The Thai lady who won her cate[…]

USE OTHER HILARIOUS STORIES PLEASE: comedy listing of unpopular player on eBay = new sporting ritual. Reporting of same as spacefilling news story = stop it now. (Related question: what did lazy editors do before eBay?)[…]

Terry And June: a long-cherished memory of mine is the episode of Terry And June in which Terry is playing golf with his boss and hits a shot which lands in the back of a lorry bound for France. HOWEVER I have no idea if this seminal TV moment, in so[…]

An Involuntary Twitch while listening to 187 Lockdown’s “Gunman” reminded me of how I used to connect with dance music physically. Not in dancing, even, but the way the beats showed you how to walk, gave you poise, a deportment cour[…]

Comics N Music: This is something I posted to I Love Comics this morning and I liked it so will shamelessly repost it here. The question was about musical analogies for comics.
EC = rock and roll
monster comics = “Louie Louie”
Silver Age […]

Thanks Dizzee!!: I’ve not actually HEARD “Showtime” yet (I’ve given up on advance album downloading, life’s too long to deny yourself anticipation; singles are another matter though, more sweeties please, that email is a[…]

COIL – “Lost Rivers Of London”: sheer coincidence that this track should turn up just after Pete’s post. The ‘lost rivers’, like the lost tube stations, are a terribly romantic concept – though perhaps an ove[…]