A couple of years back I was in TK Maxx (US readers - the same as TJ Maxx) and spied something for a few quid that I had to have.
It was a pair or Atari-style paddle controllers that contained numerous Atari games including Warlords. Computer and video games are frequently dismissed as frivolous by [...]
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Warlords
Nick is 37 and Lisa Kudrow takes the soggy biscuit.
Yes, today is my birthday.
Lovely prezzies.
And one that is really quite interesting. One might almost say prescient…
I tend to wake up early. I tend to because I have a cat and having the kitty pawing at your face and mewling does work. I say “wake up” but that is not the same as [...]
The Devil has the best tunes.
It is a truth that must be universally acknowledged that Christianity as a cultural influence has inspired some of the most profound art, music and architecture ever created. One need only look at York Minster, wander around any of the great art galleries of the world or hear Bach to know this. Indeed this cultural [...]
Springtime for Osama and the Caliphate…
In some ways, America is still processing the tragedy of 9/11, and judging by the below trailer for Clear Blue Tuesday, which is an actual movie actually debuting in limited release this week, we’ve entered the “overblown rock musical” stage of grieving. What Rent did for AIDS, Clear Blue Tuesday promises to do for the [...]
Liberal Guilt
One of the good things about blogging is that you don’t have to cover everything the way a newspaper does. Indeed sometimes someone else does it so much better than you ever could that any attempt to try yourself would be a total waste of pixels. This is such a time. David, my hat is [...]
Wookey Hole
Now I thought that was just a polite way of explaining how Han Solo relieved sexual tension on those long, long flights when Leia had the painters in.
I was wrong.
A witch at Wookey Hole caves is facing disciplinary action after her boss spotted her on X Factor when she was supposed to be [...]
The Faculty of Farts & Shitterature
“Over the past few centuries, artists have successfully developed a host of imaginative and unusual methods of applying paint to canvas. But few are more colourful than the exquisitely profound rectal squirt method developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
“Working in the arena [...]
Frankenstein
“It proved a wet, ungenial summer”, Mary Shelley remembered in 1831, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house”. Amongst other subjects, the conversation turned to the experiments of the 18th-century natural philosopher and poet Erasmus Darwin, who was said to have animated dead matter, and to galvanism and the feasibility of [...]
Mecca Time!
Apologies to the great modern philosopher but there is now a rival to Hammer Time!
And it isn’t wearing parachute pants either.
Due to start ticking on Thursday [yesterday - we have had server "issues"] as the faithful begin fasting during the month of Ramadan, the timepiece sits atop the Royal Mecca Clock Tower which dominates [...]
Taliban
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes this in the Daily Mail…
… and I agree with it!
Time to head for the hills with a technical and a shot-gun and phone that Mormon fellow I used to know on the subject of canned goods! Actually best not do that - he’d only say, “Told you so!”. Just ram-raid Tesco [...]
Rock’n'Roll Board of Compliance
Leaders of the international Rock’n’Roll community voiced their outrage today over the news that one of their own, who they always thought was a dependable degenerate extraordinaire, turned out to be a double agent, possibly working for the Reactionary Conservative Cabal Internationale.
Sir Elton John, who had been recently put on probation for singing at [...]
The Contented Parents
This had a two page spread in Absolutely Fabulous the Style Section of The Sunday Times. My wife likes the crosswords - what can I say? I am quoting it entire with my comments in [brackets]. I have also bolded and italicised bits. It’s truly awesome wank. It starts from the next paragraph…
It is now [...]
The Next Leader of The Labour Party
Any ideas?
Let’s look at the runners…
Harman. No. Deputy Leader sounds good but it is not worth a pitcher of warm piss when all is said and done. Indeed it is exactly the sort of sinecure presented to those who have scaled the greasy pole as far as everyone else can stomach. Oh and she pathologically [...]
Real Issues
Now I thought the real issue this election was this. According to The Telegraph’s Cassandra Jardine it is actually this.
There are number of ways. The first and most obvious one is that Ms Jardine is a vapid hack who felt the need to contribute something to the election but knows little or nothing of political [...]
