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 friend (hi Neil) but he’s got a new book out that I quite like - The Book of Lists – and he’s signing [...]
One of the greatest comic journalists ever to hit a key passed away two months ago and bloggers worldwide should mourn his passing. He had passion, intelligence, and a ferocious antipathy towards any kind of mediocrity, but most of all he had style. No-one else could construct a sentence like him. In terms of sheer [...]
This is neither new nor particularly newsworthy, but, as public apologies for pisspoor journalism go, I think it’s among the funniest items The Sun has ever published. I’ll let it speak for itself: “In an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline ‘Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we incorrectly [...]
I am actually a huge fan of J. G. Ballard. For me, his work was the perfectly polarised companion to the Star Trek adventures of the early 80′s, novelisations around which I read widely, expanding my sci-fi universe to incorporate Dick, Clarke, Asimov, and the paralysing Michael Moorcock, a writer so psychologically convoluted and relentlessly dystopian I could just never finish [...]
I’ve just finished reading ‘Watchmen’ and, while I did find it a compelling story rivettingly told – apart from the pace-killing prose sections at the end of each chapter, which I dreaded – there was the odd narrative quirk that didn’t make any sense to me whatsoever. if anyone with a greater understanding of comic [...]
And by that I don’t mean an MRSA squittercane. I’m talking about Gordon Brown jumping on the D-Day 65th anniversary bandwagon at the mearest hint that Barack Obama might stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the increasingly few surviving D-Day vets to remember their friends who fell on the beaches of Normandy. A public campaign, kicked off by The Independent newspaper back last June, [...]
This picture, more than anything, has convinced me that print media is dead. It was taken backstage at last Friday’s Comic Relief on Jonathan Ross’s cameraphone, from which it was then Twittered to the world, and confirms everything Stephen Fry ever said about Twitter’s ability to entirely bypass normal media channels. What would it have taken to get [...]
The blogverse is in uproar over a Scottish Sunday Express front page splash that sets a new low water mark for lazy, pointless gutter journalism. Ex-Daily Record journo Paula Murray appears to have trawled through every social networking site on the planet to dredge up whatever ‘disgusting’ details she can find about the now adult survivors of [...]
Although I left home in 1987 to head South to University, I still find myself drawn to the city of my birth and upbringing. Hull. Shortly after arriving at the University of Reading (and Writing) I was asked whether or not my voice was “deliberate”! That was a defining moment. At the age of 18 [...]
BOOK REVIEW : “Bad Science” By Ben Goldacre There’s been talk of a new enlightenment, and what with leaders of the free world having conversations with God, the NHS funding “alternative medicine” and the media’s misinformation helping us to stagger from one health scare to another, there’s certainly a need for us to return to [...]
