Years ago – in 2000, to be exact, I had a blog called Blue Lines. I was one of the first 100 or so people in the UK to have a blog, for what that’s worth (nothing, you might think, and in a just world you’d be right). Blue Lines was[…]

And there are a lot of them out there to call. Pretty much everything the bearded comics writer has written has now been collected, or is at least available somewhere (including – as you can see – his Future Shocks for 2000AD). Considerin[…]

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… but the ALL-TIME WORST BBC SIT-COM EVAH (=my hero) has suddenly (ie since ardal o’hanlon left and james dreyfus took over) also become the ODDEST
ok i have not and cannot watch for more than a couple of lines at a time — it is ST[…]

You have to hand it to the Guardian. When it comes to dipping their toes into new media they pretty much out do all the other trad news sources in the UK, with on the BBC’s online content coming anywhere near close to navigability and comprehen[…]

Hello. You are probably here because this page, on a pop culture site, is #6 on searches for “porn” on Bing.
There is no porn here. There never was porn here. There used to be an article about how using the word ‘porn’ as a me[…]

long-awaited carmodistic tour-de-force on kids-TV k-klassik flambards[…]

my entry:
An Humbler Heaven: the Beginnings of Hope, William Rees-Mogg, Collins paperbacks, 1977 — the blurb begins “The evidence for the existence of God is like the pre-photographic evidence for the existence of Everest”, so the f[…]

two christmases ago my mum’s present was the money to buy a nice casserole dish, but the one i chose at john lewis was sold out by the time i went in to get it, and then never in stock — anyway i found it in habitat a month or so back, an[…]

In the pub last night the subject of SLAINE came up. Or more specifically, “Is Slaine still going and if so, how in Gods name?”.
 (What’s that? Oh, OK. A comic strip in 2000AD, m’lud, about a barbarian with a big axe.)
A litt[…]