Named after a John Peel quote, this is the alternate live ending. In particular, if a recorded version fades out, how is a band supposed to replicate this on stage? Of course on stage bands often have sound techs way back on the mixing desk who could[…]

Belov’d of seventies and eighties US cop shows, the Cosy Comedy Gag ending appears to have developed as a syndication buffer. What it actually consisted of was a back at base coda to the show. No matter how dramatic that weeks episode of The St[…]

The beauty of “And then I woke up” comes to every nine year old child at the same time I think. It is a combination of the following factors:
a) Some awareness of classic KidZor Lit which uses this trope (Hello Alice In No-Fun-Derland and[…]

In December, Blog 7 will be the blog of endings – final chapters, grand finales, fade-outs, fake-outs, and all things terminal. Why? Well, partly because it’s the last month of 2005, a year a lot of us will be happy to see the back of, an[…]

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…No, fear not gentle reader, I do not mean the classic curse of the property-owning classes’ weekends, but something EVEN MORE EVIL!!! It is CD players wot insist on doing DIY glitchy remixes of all yr favourite records, despite all teh c[…]

Stories like this are very funny as Ananova quirkies: the Swiss boycotting kebabs because of violence after the football with Turkey. But they do highlight the stupidity of knee jerk cultural assumptions. The entire British public as far as I remembe[…]

is there any possible reason why a HOLE PUNCHER — or BODGER as my mum wd have called it — has a LOCK on it, to keep it in the shut position?
except so as to cause ensuent hilarity from afar when it clicks shut by itself and no one in the[…]

I get up from my seat and walk to the stairs at the front. A neatly dressed woman has decided to stand at the top of the stairs so I slow to let her swing out – perhaps she’ll take my seat – but no move does she make. With the usual[…]

being an mang, and also being the opposite end of the spectrum from “fashionable” i am unsure as to the correct terminology for this au courant item of legcovering, but i know one thing:
ALL YOU LADIES LOOK RIDICULOUS IN THEM
i have only […]