Here at Freakytrigger we are always scouring the papers for pointless phrases which are rounded up in dispiritingly small minded articles. And now to join our perennial favourites “Political Correctness Gone Mad” and “Just A Bit Of […]

all london-based FT posters on standby: equiv mass-crit opportunity not sighted since they cancelled POKEMON ON ICE!

(heads-up courtesy chuck at ilc)[…]

Draft Definition: moments in mass-produced art characterised by a rapid turnover of ideas and an emphasis on sensation over execution. (The triumph of the gimmick and the novelty).
Thrill-power it seems to me arises in circumstances where creative in[…]

the krew rereads the (i think 98) REAL ACTUAL (tranlated) OEUVRES of the NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR LIT startin w. handsome Sully Prudhomme (see below), not so much to discuss and dissect — this will occur naturally — as to see if we can pos[…]

i like banksy’s work a lot, for good sentimental-personal reasons — there’s a lot of it dotting the grim reaches round old street, which i often used to have to pass through on the way to work, before i knew who he was, and at the […]

I don’t read trad SF often these days, but was interested to notice in Farthest Star, by Fred Pohl & Jack Williamson (from 1975, though spiritually of an earlier age), some differences similar to ones that are much talked about in comic bo[…]

NEW! BITE SIZE!
REVIEW 10. See that review of “Rags” below, by Mick Lewis? Well. Whilst surreptitiously skulking round the sci-fi section of Borders last night (“Argh! Someone’s coming! Quick hide in… ARGH! THE BLACK LAC[…]

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Not content in banning Britain’s most popular living painter from their Most Popular Painting competition, the BBC now continue their vendetta by inviting BBC News readers to do their own Vettriano. This stems from the story that his most expen[…]

The work pop quiz last night threw up an unexpected dilemma:
– It is the final round of the pop quiz, the round where you draw a pop star in a minute and your teammates have to guess who it is. You are the last team up: if you guess the drawing[…]