Fat Pigeons

For those not in the know, Gilmore Girls is a show about two women, a mother and her daughter with only sixteen years separating them. It’s been running for six years now, and has performed variably in the ratings. But it’s done well enough to be renewed year-on-year, and a six year run is nothing […]

I’ve just finished a short contract working out in Slough. I was amused to read the following posted on the toilet door:“Please leave these toilets as you would wish to find them.” As the title of this post attests, I was unable to help.

It seems that the theme tune to Starsky and Hutch was quite different on the other side of the channel. Wacka wacka wacka.

And it just so happens that my good friend and housemate Nick has written a novel. And posted the first chapter on YouWriteOn. So why not give the man some encouragement and check it out?

The Arts Council of the UK have introduced this new website called YouWriteOn. You can blame them for the lack of spaces. The idea is that up-and-coming prose writers can put up the first three chapters of their novels, where they’ll be read, reviewed, and rated by members of the public. So far so blah. […]

Great news. The only thing that was stopping me from switching 100% was the fact that pretty much anything you want to play (with the notable exception of World of Warcraft) was only available on a PC. Hell, I was thinking I’d have to buy one just to play games on. Life just got a […]

Mr Daydream, by Roger Hargreaves=“Ah, my rod reverer!” brags gay dream.

It’s just possible that someone other than me may be interested in this. It’s a breakdown of UK primetime TV by genre. Data is from the Independent on Sunday TV guide, sampled as of the week 2-8 April 2006. I’ve defined primetime as 7-10pm Sunday to Saturday and have assigned my own genres as there […]

Badger.Footie.Potter.

BBC4 recently aired a new version of “A for Andromeda”, originally shown as seven 45-minute episodes back in 1961. Not much of the original series survives, so as with their recent production of “The Quatermass Experiment” the BBC has updated and re-made the production. Sadly, “A for Andromeda” wasn’t transmitted live. One of the most […]