Botch job — they cut out the girl MC, which means they lose the bits that make the song loveable as well as sensational (plus: a love song as well as a sensation), that duel of ‘oh well’s. Without that it’s just being hectored[…]

I spent pretty much all of yesterday reading the BBC’s Doctor Who Episode Guide. I think I’m undergoing some kind of internal audit – all the things I liked when I was a kid and brutally blue-pencilled in my worried 20s are now up f[…]

And Then They Lez Up: Cozen’s t.A.T.u. epic is up and ready on Freaky Trigger – so is Dr C’s latest instalment in the C90 Go! series. Num num num.[…]

heronbone.blogspot.com – wrote something about this which got lost in Blogger. Really good, go and read it.[…]

Neumu’s saving grace Philip Sherburne weighs in on the fanatics/dilettantes debate which I seem to have inadvertently started, concluding an interesting column with a stirring rallying cry – “Here’s to outsiders getting it all[…]

Girl group records and Roy Lichtenstein pictures make a too-familiar cultural couple. The four-colour hand dabbing handkerchief to eye; the switchback between sass and heartbreak – what do they have in common, really? Sentiment, I suppose, but […]

I’ve been going out with her for eleven years and I’m still little better at picking out clothes she’ll like. ‘Do you see anything here you think I should try on?’ ‘What about that?’ ‘You’re jokin[…]

Personal Info-Break: A lifestyle revolution (and phone bills) mean I’m going to be avoiding using the Interweb from home as much as possible. But if you fancy talking to me on AIM I will be online during ‘working’ hours more often, […]

Tom’s Top Twelve
Since we seem to be ‘back’, as it were.
KARDINAL OFFISHAL – “Belly Dancer”
SCOOTER – “Weekend!”
AVRIL LAVIGNE – “I’m With You”
HALL AND OATES – &#822[…]

Short, witty, and sharply cut, this is my idea of a good ‘political’ song, which I’m told we need more of right now. Like an editorial cartoon, it makes its point, jogs the memory, and raises a grim smile, and it’s over in two[…]