How to Be a Domestic Goddess
or
Diary of a Frustrated Girlfriend
I was sans bloke (due to a stag thing in Exeter) last weekend, and naturally I turned to baking as a displacement activity. It beats crying into your pint, eh ladies?
Getting up bright[…]

Noted on the side of Del Monte Pure Orange Juice:
Del Monte: The Healthy Way To Five A Day
Obsessed as I am to easy ways to five a day, this took me back a touch. Is it suggesting that there is an unhealthy way to five a day? Reading further it sugg[…]

What is the funniest bit of Will Ferrell’s new comedy Anchorman? Is it the dog vs bear fight? Is it the jazz flute break? Is it the hoary old “take the piss out of sexism whilst the audience laughs at our sexist jokes” routine. Quit[…]

“Hey, Former Internet Analyst, is [SITE X] worse than it used to be?”
“The answer, grasshopper, is always yes. But only for oneself. Three years reading, five years sitebuilding and three more years working on the net boils down to […]

My status as the ‘office DJ’ seems to be cemented. The latest commission is for our annual biggest-of-the-bigwigs convention, this year in Cape Cod. Sadly I’m not being flown out, box boy in tow, for a superstar set – I’[…]

At least not the actual CBS news report that waved around some ancient smoking-gun documents which blogistan’s rightwing myrmidons then leapt into collective action to prove could have been forged hence were forged – what i *do* see, tho,[…]

Tea and nymph-athy
Finally weary of sleeping their way around New York, certain members of the Sex and the City alumni have turned their attention to lucrative advertising contracts.
Sarah Jessica Parker (owner of one of the top TLA names in Hollywoo[…]

FT Top 100 Films
32: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Anthony Easton says:
Why the fuck is this the Christmas movie of choice. I mean it has the mawkishness, the sacrifice to the altar of family, the mealy mouthed redemption, and the idea that everyone ca[…]

Mr. 82
This fellow is one of the more intriguing coves posting on ILM. His posts, several on the same thread, are always under different names, rarely does an identity appear twice. His modus operandi tends to be to reprint a music news story and ask[…]

Bloody Shirtlifters
Tim Cahill was sent off for Everton on Saturday for receiving a second yellow-card for doing a Ravenelli style celebration. Such rulings make my blood boil; I enjoy seeing players celebrating, forming as it does a rare connection […]