Blogpulse promises much but I’m not sure how well it delivers. “The one-click answer to the question ‘What’s the buzz?’” says Blogpulse’s trends page. I am not sure that a blog aggregator is needed to tell you that[…]

When is a game not a game? I flicked through the new Edge on the way home yesterday with growing unease. EyeToy up for an award – fair do’s, it’s a great idea and well executed. Glowing review for karaoke game Singstar? Hmmm. News i[…]

The only relevant news item in this week’s Marketing was the sad decision of Bodyform to finally discard the “Whoa Bodyform” music from their adverts, which will apparently be speech-based in future. One research study claimed it to[…]

FOODS EATEN IN CHILDRENS’ BOOKS #2: Pine Needles
Pine needles seem to work as a kind of Moomin hay – they form their hibernation beds as well as serving as the staple diet. The preferred Mooomin drink – raspberry juice – lives[…]

More PopNose to your right. PN15 is a sort-of Coxsone Dodd tribute, PN16 is robot romance.[…]

Laughing On Records
I dislike the Frankee record. I was a bit worried this was down to my deep-rooted misogyny but listening to it just now on Capital I realised why it is rubbish: it has laughing on it. Specifically it has laughing on it after a jok[…]

Club Popular was by most accounts a triumph, despite early jitters caused by the look of disbelief on The Chapel owner’s face when Al Martino started bellowing out across his boozer. A sequel is likely, but the next club night will most likely […]

364,417 words: That’s the sum total of my blogging output, a genuinely disturbing (for me) number. It’s more than the guy who co-founded Blogger. (And that’s not counting stuff done under pseudonyms, ahem.)
That has nothing to do wi[…]

Pleasant surprise of the day! The gentle and effective flute part on Morrissey’s “I’m Not Sorry”. The rest of the record is a bit weak – it works fairly well as an executive summary of the Morrissey Brand, I suppose. The[…]

HOW DO YOU EAT YOURS?
You have some sweets, let us say skittles. Do you:
a. Eat them at random?
b. Eat one of each colour at a time, letting colours run out?
c. Sort them and eat selectively to get an identical number of sweets of each colour, then e[…]