I thought I’d break the NYLPM mould a bit and talk about some records I’m enjoying. First up is the non-religious half of this new R Kelly album, Happy People. Some critics have suggested that this record is just a CD’s worth of &#8[…]

Secrets of the Doomsday Clock!: i.e. who at the Atomic Energy Bulletin gets to move it forward and back. Sadly it seems that an editor cannot move the clock to ONE TO MIDNIGHT just because they thought it would be a funny idea in the pub. The clock &[…]

Tory Busted: I am genuinely, surprisingly, perhaps lamely disappointed by this.[…]

Moose writes weblog about TV ads: with a jaundiced air. Being a good middle-class child I was brought up never to watch ITV so I can’t comment on any of these ads – I suspect the tone of outraged sarcastic ire is probably right though. I […]

The fear of being helpless in the face of your own rapidly approaching demise is already becoming a recurring theme of this list. Usually though, there’s a malicious influence involved somewhere, a giant maneating lizard or an axe murderer, for[…]

Jet + Girls Aloud = Luv: It’s like Lionel Vinyl read my mind![…]

Real People wanted
Upcoming opportunities to get on telly in misguided belief that fame and fortune awaits? Or at least, that’s the sell, it seems to me. Do people beleive it? Do people not just go for a laugh or for a good day out (especially […]

(Caution: not for the softcore)
Alignment: AD&D employed a notorious form of psychometric profiling, the Alignment System, whereby every living thing’s personality could be summarised by a phrase like “Lawful Neutral” or &#822[…]

Oh no not again: people can grumble all they like about cinema adaptations of books but they are entirely harmless compared to the time-wasting chasm of ineptitude that is comics adapted from books or plays. I remember the ‘good old days’[…]

“I only read it for the constitutional debate”: best thing about this story is the name of the German erotic magazine in question.[…]