I heard this earlier ( Read more... )

Imagine that a group of explorers spot another group of people playing a board game (think checkers/draughts) using some stones to represent their pieces ( Read more... )

Last night I saw Hellboy 2. I enjoyed it more than I'll ever admit to. It's about as good a rendition of a standard good-guy-fights-and-beats-bad-guy arc as I can imagine (though, ultimately, that's what it is); not least because the 'good guy' is the son of satan, and the 'bad guy' is played by one half of late-eighties pop sensation Bros ( Read more... )

Imagine a caring but naive parent who wants to feed their child some bitter medicine. To make it a bit easier on the child they mix in some honey, and then some more, and then some more, and then some more, and then some more, until they're left with a big pot of honey containing a teaspoon of medicine ( Read more... )

One day last week (they all seemed to blur together) I was playing GTA 3 (the 'original', though I remember the earlier, overhead predecessors) whilst listening to Radio 4 and a programme started whose premise seemed to be as follows: some concerned, well-meaning, well-healed, radio-4-listening, world-consciousness-raising parents believed their ( Read more... )

Assuming that my time is worthless, I'm continuing to get infinite value from the BBC (by having no television, and thus no legal requirement to pay a television license, but at the same time listening to BBC radio and watching programmes on the iPlayer). Recently, I've been taken by a couple of programmes based around the contrivance of Developed ( Read more... )

Our World: Super Size Super Power - a BBC documentary shown at 5.20 in the morning, on their 24-hour news channel.

If a Martian were to watch the programme without sound, I think it[1] would conclude that black people are fat; white people are thin. I'm sure that's not the intended message, but it does seem to give that impression ( Read more... )

Happy eating-chocolate-to-celebrate-the-zombification-of-Jesus Days!

On Friday I saw the best 'gig' I've seen for years: The Eels. Or more specifically, "E + 1"

The Venue: The Grand Opera House at York. (Have a look at the website: I challenge you to find any opera; though many things are, I'm sure, in the Yorkshire sense, 'grand ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

I have a strange sense of humour ( Read more... )