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Archive for: March, 2009

The WATCHMEN Questions

The WATCHMEN Questions

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 [...]

A World of Pooh

A World of Pooh

When I thought of this cartoon I immediately thought to myself, “You can’t draw that!” Which, of course, meant that I then had to draw it. I’m not censoring myself. If you don’t know about the bees (they really are dying out), you can find out more here. For the sake of Pooh, we must [...]

Newswipe

Newswipe

After cleaning up at the RTS awards with his superlative ‘Screenwipe’, Charlie Brooker is back with his new BBC4 prog focussing purely on News. Making it’s debut last night and imaginatively entitled ‘Newswipe’, it ambitiously aims to give you a better idea of what the news actually is while critiquing all its forms. There were some rubbish [...]

Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

At the bottom of my street – really, barely a hundred yards from my front door – a bunch of puffy-jacketed types are spending most of today filming ‘Nowhere Boy’, a biography of the young John Lennon. It’s Sam Taylor Wood’s first feature directing gig. Kristin Scott Thomas is playing Aunt Mimi, and newbie Aaron Johnson shoulders the Lennon burden, while I’m [...]

The Redemptive Power of Death

The Redemptive Power of Death

I don’t truly hate much, but I truly hate cancer. Thus, Jade Goody’s death is fairly straightforward for me. I think it’s a shame, and, even though I despise ignorance and bigotry - two qualities that Jade, at times, seemed to be put on this earth to embody - I don’t think I have the right to slight the figure [...]

Leave Will alone, Moyles, you bully!

Leave Will alone, Moyles, you bully!

Dastardly, pastry-faced, bedragel-toothed, rancid mawed Kilimanjaro ‘hero’ (if you can call being virtually dragged up by a dozen sherpas ‘heroic’) Chris Moyles has been rapped on the knuckles by Ofcom for taking the micky out of our poor Will Young on the the singer’s 30th birthday. Moyles apparently changed some lyrics in Leave Right Now [...]

The Real Thing

The Real Thing

I was recently offended when the makers of Lesbian Vampire Killers took a steaming dump on my love of horror and films in general and then tried to sell it back to me as entertainment. Wound me right up it did and, as a man who’s proud of his hard earned cheese threshold, that takes [...]

“Aspirational” Politics

“Aspirational” Politics

The tories – ya gotta love ‘em – are bungeeing around the issue of inheritence tax like deranged extreme sportsmen on the lash. Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne first proposed abolishing inheritence tax on properties below £1million back in 2007, and it’s always been seen as one of the Tories’ few surefire votewinners. Yesterday, however, Shadow Business Secretary Ken Clarke told [...]

For Jane

For Jane

A very personal podcast this, dedicated, as it is, to a very old friend who died last month. I really don’t recommend you listen to it unless you knew Jane and she touched your life as profoundly as she touched mine.  She’s pictured here with her husband Paul on their wedding day, and my thoughts are with him, too, in his grief.

D-Day vets in Brown storm

D-Day vets in Brown storm

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, [...]

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