FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
15: A Red Hot Poker In The Eye
SIZZZZLE!!!!
Let us break this down. Is this fear a mere conflation of a number of individual horrible things, happening all at once. The invasion of the eye, the fear of blindness,[…]

Pub graffiti you have known
“Oats are a great herbal solution to depression. Eat porridge or muisli every day for breakfast for a week. I promise you you’ll be able to tell the difference”
This is the most annoying graffiti I’[…]

Sex Traffic. I wondered about the name. Was it just going to be like Traffic (the film) based on Traffik the TV series but about sex? Answer. Pretty much. A nicely rounded look at the sex traffic industry from the viewpoint of the girls, those runnin[…]

Coins on the Railway Line
It was the summer of 1980, the last week of the school holidays. Ashes to Ashes was top of the charts and West Ham had recently won the FA Cup. My dad was on my back to get out of the house. So I phoned some friends and we h[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
16. Imprisonment
The author of this piece wishes to remain anonymous.
I was brought up to believe that prisons were for bad people and so if I kept my nose clean, I’d never end up there. I needed no discour[…]

Pedant’s Corner: why is it always raw energy? What’s wrong with the cooked kind?[…]

World Match Play goes to Els for record sixth win
Congrats to Ernie Els on his record-breaking win in the World Match Play this afternoon. Els is a great golfer who is as affable as he is talented. I’m with Seve when he reckons “there&#[…]

I have 34 of these box sets now, so I thought I’d offer some guidance to anyone thinking they look tempting (especially at the £7 prices on offer at HMV and Fopp, for instance) but unsure where to dip their toe in. Pretty much all of the […]

LATE NIGHT HATE
Reading about Johnny Vaughan’s morning escapades made me think about the radio horrors I experience at night driving home from work, namely ‘Late Night Love’. Now most ‘local’ radio stations aren’t […]

Watching CSI:Miami is akin to watching an ant crawl down the pavement on a supermegadoubleplusgood zoom lens from the 60th floor of a sky scraper for 20 years, then playing back the film of the event in reverse at 1000000000x the original speed and […]