Uh oh – damning a comedy by faint praise corner again. That can only mean the Coen Brothers or the Farrell Brothers have a movie out. It is the former, with their – gasp – first film from a second hand script. Wot they rewrote. And […]

This morning: sign spotted in local greasy:
KNIVES AND FORKS ARE NOT TONICS! PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THEM AFTER YOUR MEAL!
Also – cup of tea in being 35 English Pence shocker! I have got too used to standing in Starbucks getting confused after order[…]

LIL JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYS – “Get Low”
What a strange little transubstantiation that has occured when “C’mon and Ride It (The Train)” slowed down to 16rpm and fronted by the Frogtown Hollow Community Choir is[…]

Okay. It’s a bit non-committal as a word. It is not exactly a superlative. The Danish film of the same name can also be pegged in a similar way. It is pretty bog standard family soap opera stuff. Nete is the busybody mother character who has a[…]

SEEN ON THE INTERWEB:
“The thing about seagulls exploding being unable to vent CO2 is not an urban myth, because I’ve seen it. If you give them bread with lots of bicarb on, they fly away, go wobbly, then wetly burst.”
Playground La[…]

“The scarf awarded for playing is known as a pussy.”: I did not play rugby at school. I played this. (NB I cannot remember 60% of these rules – at some later date I will write up my memories of what it was actually like.)[…]

Whoosh! Erase The World lays into The Rugger with a righteous ire. It’s hard to disagree. (Link via the tremendous It’s All In Your Mind). I saw a bunch of the highlights last night and they seem to consist primarily of a prurient “[…]

Tom’s Top 12: with marriage impending my life has become (surprise!) a bit hectic, so less time to think about or write about pop music. A quick rundown of the sidebar tunes, then:
BUSTED – “Crashed The Wedding”: But of course[…]

The only justification for the existence of ITV2 (apart from the magnificent Trisha Extra) is the way it schedules repeats of Coronation Street. Rather than show the most recent episode they’ll broadcast one three or four days old, so it’[…]

Aliens certainly look like THIS: unfortunately the story doesn’t say i. how these Californian scientists worked this out, or ii. what their damn book is called. (Other questions as usual not answered: when did we start calling them aliens and w[…]