You heard me, SPOILERS.
Spoilers for what?
I DON’T KNOW. (more…)[…]

These are the tracks for the Pop Open, week one. Theme: sex.
[ROUND OVER – TRACKS UNLINKED]
What is the Pop Open? It’s a game we’re playing over at the Poptimists LJ community. It’s too late to be a contestant but not too late[…]

Marketers at Nintendo has credited the popularity of Pokemon to its expert combination of two previous fads – the Tamagotchi and the Beanie Baby. Fair enough, but this isn’t why Pokemon has become so successful as a brand, capturing the imagi[…]

Man to eat Corgi live on air: “It’s going to be served in a pitta bread with a salad, almost like a kebab on a skewer.” The live eating will be in the Resonance FM studios, which, though slightly cramped, have a long history of foo[…]

Most discussion I’ve seen about the upcoming His Dark Materials films has focused on the film-makers’ decision to tone down the anti-religious element. This leads to the question of how they’re going to tackle the scenes in the thir[…]

In my teens and early twenties I made three sustained attempts to create worlds.
The first two were for AD&D games, the third was for a freeform – i.e. largely ruleless – role-playing campaign. Each of them ran into two basic problems[…]

Public servant wastes time arsing about shocker – worth a look for the entertaining hypocrisy of the “George Cross Island”![…]

My Pitchfork column this month is a short exploration of what good music criticism can still do in an instant-access era. It came out of a bunch of conversations and ILM and Poptimists posts and is more of a series of notes and examples than a fully-[…]

I am fairly sure he won’t thank me for this in later life. I can always take the post down!
Anyway to enliven the ESC this year we decided to watch it with our baby and take a photo of his reactions to each performance.

Initial picture for con[…]

Kat Stevens writes:
It’s 1997, and the Brit Awards organisers are trying to recover from the previous year’s Jacko/Jarvis debacle. The Spice Girls steal the show and the Manics’ rendition of A Design For Life ensures sales of Everyt[…]