Category archives: Personal
Songs for the Bewildered: Nikita
You hipster musos might like to pretend that the first record you bought, with your own precious pocket money, was Music for the Masses. Or Purple Rain. Or Rain Dogs. But it wasn’t. Like me, the first record you bought… 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 »
Eugene Lambert
Very sad to hear about the passing of the mighty Eugene Lambert. Way back when this blog was a bumbling, stumbling and mewling babe, Eugene very generously granted me a long and detailed interview on his long and varied career.… continue reading »
Every Day is a Gif(t): Mr. Kipling’s Orgy of Cake
A companion piece to my Werther’s reimagining. This is why ad agencies should be paying me the big massive bucks. But they’re afraid. Too afraid… The damn spineless & hidebound fools! No more gif(t)s for you tomorrow. You’ve had enough.
Every Day is a Gif(t): Thomas Magnum Sleepy Time
Final gif(t) tomorrow.
Every Day is a Gif(t): Creamy Werther’s Goodness in a Universe that Doesn’t Care
The universe may be little more than a chaotic and unfeeling soup of neutrinos, quarks, gluons and dark matter that’s barely (if at all) aware of our fleeting existences, but (even in this flux & emptiness & horror) there are… continue reading »
