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Music F*ck You I Won’t Hate Joe McElderry

F*ck You I Won’t Hate Joe McElderry »

For a while my brain was like 80’s Berlin – rent asunder by two opposing ideologies. The baton-wielding right hemisphere rejoiced at Rage Against The Machine’s festive chart victory, while the decadent left hemisphere felt only sadness for...

December 22 2009 / No comment / Read More »
For One Morning Only – The Cardigans

For One Morning Only – The Cardigans »

OK, a short, but sweet post before Christmas engulfs me… I don’t know a lot about The Cardigans, but here’s what I do know: 1. They’re from Stockholm in Sweden. 2. Their first album was called Emmerdale, after...

December 16 2009 / No comment / Read More »
Happy Holidays – It’s the Roomyverse Christmas Album!

Happy Holidays – It’s the Roomyverse Christmas Album! »

It’s Christmas! I checked and the 1st of December is officially the start of advent, so don’t give me any of that “it gets earlier every year” humbug. It doesn’t. It starts this time every...

December 1 2009 / 12 comments / Read More »
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Technique »

Technique

This week’s webcomic recommendation is, I believe, what is generally termed as a “grower”. Every time I read John Allison’s Bad Machinery, I like...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Sea »

The Sea

The last time I wrote about Corinne Bailey Rae was five years ago, and it was from a position of rank loathing. Not for...

Feb 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Do Not Vote Tory »

Do Not Vote Tory

This was the people of Hackney’s response to David Cameron’s PR nightmare of a poster, and it may seem harsh, but his apparently tentative grip on...

Jan 29 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Gaylords – Yakety Yak »

The Gaylords – Yakety Yak

I’ve been letting this part of Roomyverse slip of late, sorry. I’m getting ready to move and all my spare time is being taken...

Jan 26 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Bleak is the New Black »

Bleak is the New Black

Two weeks into the New Year and Britain was plunged into the worst arctic conditions for over three decades. Not only did we have...

Jan 24 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Head Chef’s Horror Academy – Week 4: Inferno & The Beyond »

Head Chef’s Horror Academy – Week 4: Inferno & The Beyond

Well, I was going to just comment on Dario Argento’s ‘Inferno’, but my wife popped out for an Indian with the girls last night...

Jan 18 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

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  • Escape from Amsterdam: ‘Curing’ Autism.
    November 30, 2009 | 7:11 pm

    sofy2I guess I should be surprised that my diary’s made it this far without confronting the issue of treatment, because there seem to be two types of parent working with the Spectrum: those who accept the diagnosis as a lifelong fait accompli and who solely rely on behavioural techniques, and those who seek a solution through alternative therapies. The first type believe their children are biologically (and thus inalterably) ’atypical’, while the second believe their kids are also chronically ill and can thus be partially cured. 

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Roy Budd, Jazz Pianist »

Roy Budd, Jazz Pianist Dur. 19 mins 42secs Roomybonce’s guide to Roy Budd, composer of ’70s scores from Get Carter to The Wild Geese, pitch perfect child prodigy, Lalo Schifrin...

Apr 6 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »
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Elite is 25

A quarter of a century ago I would spend days in my freezing box room in Fegg Hayes (a teensy hamlet north of the most northern of Stoke’s six towns) hammering at an Acorn Electron...

Sep 25, 2009 / More »
Film Fangs a Lot

Fangs a Lot

We’re only a week into 2010 and I think I’ve already seen one of my top ten films this year – what’s going on? It’s not a Rom-Com, a Gross-out Comedy, or a worthy...

Jan 12, 2010 / More »
TV The End of Time

The End of Time

There are some wonderful moments in David Tennant’s final Timelord adventure. Bernard Cribbins is brilliant, and all his exchanges with The Doctor shine in oddly tender & poignant ways. The Doctor’s reason for locking away...

Jan 3, 2010 / More »
X-Factor Blog The X-Factor: Final Sunday

The X-Factor: Final Sunday

Here we go here we go here we go! It’s the finals proper – not the Live Finals, not the Final Three, but the actual One of These is Going to Win Final...

Dec 28, 2009 / More »
Words The Book of Lists

The Book of Lists

Far be it from me to promote another bald bespectacled cartoonist who isn’t our own dear DJ Bogtrotter, but I’d like to bring pbrainey to your attention. Yes, he’s only a friend of a...

Oct 7, 2009 / More »
Toons Talibanned

Talibanned

Whoa, Tetris last week and this week a regime that was toppled nearly ten years ago. Finger. On. The. Pulse. By the way, the reporter is my fairly ham-fisted attempt at a caricature...

Jan 29, 2010 / More »
News Happy Birthday DJ

Happy Birthday DJ

Oh DJ Bogtrotter, Happy Birthday man. Remember when you caddied for me at the Irish Open in ‘97? Remember how you ran interference for me, buddy, when the Nolan Sisters serenaded us with ‘I’m in the...

Dec 9, 2009 / More »
Sport David Haye: An Apology

David Haye: An Apology

Ok, this is me, poised over a humble pie of such colon clogging proportions that it could floor Russkie humunculus Nikolai Valuev more effectively than a horseshoe-loaded glove to the knackers. And why should...

Nov 8, 2009 / More »

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