About Incidentally, if anyone has an web based ideas for celebrating this blog's seventh birthday at the end of the month, do leave a ...

Marketing This Wired article about the somewhat admirable Julia Allison reminds that about five years ago I considered strategies for pub...

TV “I’ve been watching the first series of A Bit of Fry & Laurie .” “Have you. Have you indeed. Indeedy.” “Yes.” “And?” “It’s very f...

TV The First Interval of the Proms and the coverage seems have turned into a clone of The One Show with Charles Hazlewood and Suzy Klien ...

Music Here's something you don't see every day -- my university tutor David, the man who marked my dissertation, on the BBC's ...

TV A script review of the Battlestar Galactica preview Caprica . It's very positive though it does seem to compare the show to The T...

WER The Fuck is Fizz , originally uploaded by feelinglistless . Pretty much sums up my day Superlambanana hunting in north Liverpool. Fizz w...

Namesake I've not found one of these in quite a while. Burford Priory in Oxfordshire is up for sale, and look who's currently liv...

Commerce Further up in Amazon's equivalent of the Tyrell Corporation there are also some really, really expensive books , whole librar...

Commerce There are some very expensive bargains at Amazon, especially in the New or Used section. William Shatner Two Pack dvd featuring ...

Sport Readers with long memories will remember that at the close of the Athens Olympics, I began a series for the blog in which I promised...

TV You might remember last week I caused something of shit-storm at Behind The Sofa with my review of last week's Doctor Who which s...

Journalism I once thought I could make a living from being a critic. I had second thoughts. Here's (to an extent) why . The other r...

Music Rather good interview with Carli Bruni from The Times (of all places): “I must tell you that I adore the British, because they’re ...

Food Chez Pim on the best croissant in Paris: "The I heard footsteps behind me, it's the guy in chef's white returning from...

Film From Cinematical: Why Do Studios Heavily Promote Films That Don't Need Promotion? Because historically, audiences assume that ...

TV Watching the whole of the second series of Heroes today (all eleven episodes – it was raining outside) I could certainly see the conce...

Liverpool Life I've just spent the past few hours attempting to put together a bus itinerary for the next stage of the consecutive Sup...

TV Kate Orman still thinks the last season of Doctor Who ended on a cliffhanger: "I'll tell you another thing that was weird an...

Politics James Reynolds on China's queuing day : "I went to a Beijing subway station. Queue monitors pointed people towards vari...