The thing here is, those professions which score best are those professions that are all about making other people feel directly and immediately happier. Unless you’re an army hairdresser shaving conscripts, I suppose.[…]

THE COMING DROUGHT?
ok i watched c4’s 100 best cartoons last night mainly to punish david stubbs for a particularly thin editorial in this month’s wire (he sets out his stall by apologising for watching some previous c4 top 100, b4 wheel[…]

MB Games to film update:
March brings us Guess Who? the movie. An everday tale of identity seaking using yes/no questions, and flipping tiles.
Or is it a remake of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner with the twist that the family are black.
Yes, its […]

SPANGLISH
Crubbish more like.*
A light, family friendly “comedy” about the culture clash between and Mexican maid and the quirky Los Angeles white family she works for. For which read reductive, manipulative and misogynist pseudo-entertai[…]

MOST ORGANIC PUB EVAH!
The Duke Of Cambridge on St Peter’s Street in Islington prides itself on being an organic gastropub. Perhaps prides is not strong enough. Puffs itself out with so much self satisfaction about absolutely everything being o[…]

The Long Arm of Jude Law
Apropos of nothing, this is the winner of my own private “Commission a new strip for Viz” competition. Not quite up to snuff were Asher D: Maitre d’ and My Mate Billy. AD:MD was a bit out of date with its su[…]

The Way To Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
I’m a big admirer of Vargas Llosa, but this one isn’t much fun. It’s two separate narratives, one of Gauguin, not a painter or person for whom I have much admiration, and one of his grandmot[…]

diet a success: dieter scarily hott and smugg (cont.)…
D. ca ma-ca-ren kho coi thit ba chi (vietnamese mackerel cooked in a pot lined with belly pork) ok mackerel is VERY CHEAP and VERY OILY, and the oiliness is what some ppl find offputting ([…]

Channel 4 is launching its new digital channel, More4, in October, for factual-based programming. It’s intended to be ‘more down to earth and accessible than BBC Four’, with ‘a strong international flavour’.
Have a guess[…]

I was trying to work out what it was that was nagging me about The Door In The Floor. It is a sedate and thoughtful movie which is a wee bit like the Graduate with less laughs, and more tragedy. And a naked Jeff Bridges.
And even though I had guesse[…]