This thread is terrific and useful – well done Matos for the idea, to the power of ten if people actually start making these CDs. The previous set of 700MB Go! threads left me a bit numbed – just too much data – but the less-than-CD[…]

I did not see The Sweetest Thing when it came out summer 2002 (I might have been on holiday that week, sorry). Warned off by poor reviews I assumed it was a sub Farrelly Brothers gross out comedy. Whilst I would not go as far as the film-makers in th[…]

If science is the new punk rock then I think the Dana Centre wants to be the 100 Club. I have not been yet, but they seem to be trying awfully hard to be intelligent, fun AND grown-up. This seems to work on the basis that controversy is the best way […]

The publog may well be seeking submissions for a British version of Not Fooling Anybody. A fun, if somewhat culturally specific, site cataloguing rather poor makeovers of previous corporate-branded shops and restaurants. Much of the fun has been take[…]

To counter my own bonkers work on film, it is good to see that mates in the pub can come up with equally out there theses. Last night in pub number two I was presented with the Alien / Pubic Hair debate. Said friend of mine had watched the Alien Quad[…]

On diet mixers! I tell you what, drinking vodka and boring ole slimline tonic is very BORING. Instead of the HURRAH HURRAH type drunk you get from Lovely Beer all you get is a headache and a vague feeling of restlessness and alienation. No wonder Ric[…]

Why oh why are there no cheese-based liqueurs? You get port IN stilton, you get cheese AND wine, you get beer-flavoured cheese, so surely the reverse would be unspeakably delicious: cheese IN wine? cheese IN beer? stilton IN port?
Anyway I got a bl[…]

It’s published by Routledge, it cites Derrida, Foucault and Barthes, it’s about British Theatre – more specifically John Osborne – so all in all this is a shoo-in to be hated by me (I like D, F and B, but on the whole I hate a[…]

Your talk show? Has been taken off the air? For gratuitous racism in the Sunday Express?
So no Kilroy next week, and we all get an extra half hour in bed before Trisha. His crime was to claim that Arab countries have given the world nothing. Yet, acc[…]

Sarah is right. I have seen Virus. I took a couple hours off of work to see this godforesaken Alien rip-off (starring Jamie Leigh Curtis as Sigourney Weaver). Most notable for Donald Sutherland being the ripest, most mature, smoked old ham you will e[…]