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Music Bobbins News: RIP Frank Sidebottom

Bobbins News: RIP Frank Sidebottom »

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Frank Sidebottom, ladies and gentlemen, has passed away with his creator Chris Sievey. I say this only because the world will surely be a poorer place without a cheery chappy...

June 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Get Well Soon – We Are Free

Get Well Soon – We Are Free »

I’ve got a ton of music posts lined up, a bit of Blondie, Janis Joplin even some Daniel Johnston to finish off our outsider art trilogy, but none of it current. It started to bug me...

June 9 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Diamonds are Forever

Diamonds are Forever »

Ok, cheesy title, but then I did turn 40 last month and am allowed a little cheese, just as I’m allowed a mini-midlife crisis crush on this half Welsh, half Greek pop diva who looks like CZJ (even though she...

April 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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X-Factor’s back – alright!

Today it seems I’ve watched everything on TV. The five afternoon movie is ‘Evel’, starring CSI’s George Eads as the stuntman (seen it) and...

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Burka Ban

The Warehouse has got to be one of the silliest webcomics out there. Check it out if you like your humour daft as a...

Aug 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Wyclef Jean. For President? »

Wyclef Jean. For President?

Former Fugee and World’s Most Famous Haitian™ Wyclef Jean has thrown his hat into the ring for the Haitian presidency, to be contested in...

Aug 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Walker’s TV Week: University Challenge is Back! »

Walker’s TV Week: University Challenge is Back!

No sooner do the nights start getting longer then University Challenge is back. This is a very busy time in my calendar as I...

Jul 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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Meet the Flintstones!

Covering a kids TV theme is a tried and tested way to attract a little nostalgic attention. Whole  shoddy albums have been based on...

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iPhone4 v HTC Evo

 These are just two xtranormal videos, but they hilariously capture the demographic for both phones – the imbecilic zeitgeist-slave who must have the iPhone, and the...

Jun 30 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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A Dad's Autism Diary

  • A Dad’s Autism Diary: Cause & Effect
    July 12, 2010 | 8:08 pm

    Sofia will be five on Wednesday! Five! So to celebrate, here are some pictures from a steam railway we visited last month. Sofia loved it, and it took me right back to my first job down the local pit back in ’89, when I would smell the steam from the mine’s tank engine as I walked up the lane every morning. Bliss.

    Within seconds of arriving the engine shocked her with a big wheesh, but once she got used to all the tooting Sofia began to study the soot on her hand and the horses and cricketers we were clickety-clacking past. This was the Chinnor to Princes Risborough railway, and the whole experience was as perfect an English Countryside postcard as I’ve ever seen. Kites of the carniverous kind circled above us, on the lookout for fieldmice, and the steam & sunshine combined to throw us all half a century back in time. 

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Roy Budd, Jazz PianistDur. 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...

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It’s Saturday night and I’m one of the 19 million watching the Britain’s Got Talent final. Having previously missed every second of this year’s BGT, I find the whole 150 minute spectacular an unpleasantly entertainment-free experience akin to cleansing one’s...

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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...

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