Archives for March 2010
Falling Eggs and Hickety Pickety’s Sad Lonely Life on the Game
A short-ish while ago I bought (against my better judgement) a copy of Albert Jack’s Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes. “Hey!”, I thought, “I love Nursery Rhymes!”. “This attractive pocket-sized volume is just for me”.… continue reading »
Fear Factor and Killing Power
Look, I know that Top Trumps, as a game, has most likely always been shit – interminable, tedious and requiring practically no skill whatsoever – but I can’t wholly shake an enduring affection for it. Or the cards, as objects,… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: Space Invaders
As part of an ongoing project to make my 14-month-old daughter as gargantuan a nerd as her daddy, I recently decorated half her room with a charming Space Invaders motif. It rocks. And she loves it (or appears to). In… continue reading »
