9th, May 2014
Flashback
THE beautiful thing about hard liquor advertising is that it is rarely nuanced or boring. It opts for the ham fisted approach, beating consumers over the head with brazen sexual tactics. After all, they’re not selling sofa pillows here, folks. They’re selling booze, and that means things may get interesting... More »
HOW tabloid reporting work with the Daily Mirror's John Cross... More »
8th, May 2014
Reviews
THE war on free speech claims Robert Riley, jailed for making comments on twitter about Leeds school teacher Anne Maguire, who was stabbed to death by a pupil... More »
LAST night Yaya Toure scored a terrific goal to put the tin lid on Manchester City's 4-0 win over Aston Villa. But how did the Daily Mail present the strike? Like this... More »
8th, May 2014
Film
4 SINCE the early seventies director Brian De Palma has crafted many intense and highly cerebral thrillers. Alas, such efforts are often dismissed by critics as being overly imitative of Alfred Hitchcock’s films and style rather than praised for their own finely-developed sense of inter-textuality and intellectual gamesmanship... More »
8th, May 2014
Music
ONE thing that has always been a major force in music, is marketing. Songs don't accidentally find their way to listeners, unless you're a crazy crate digger who actively looks between the cracks for music... More »
8th, May 2014
Books
ARTIST Josh Cooley has recreated moment from R-rated films as pages in children's books. You can buy them on his site... More »
8th, May 2014
In Pictures
THE best of Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses: The mission of this blog was always simple: shine a spotlight on God’s noses. Noses are an issue that affects 99% of us. And while I won’t say that the 1% without noses are categorically evil, they are. Or Godless at the very least... More »
8th, May 2014
Strange But True
IN the 1970s, someone thought it a good idea of build an igloo-shaped hotel 20 miles from the town of Cantwell, Alaska Cantwell. No-one came to stay. The place had no planning permission. It was used for business, though, as a gift shop and garage.... More »
8th, May 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak's look at the missing child in the news today: "British cops arrive for Madeleine McCann hunt but officials ban them from searching suspects' homes"... More »
8th, May 2014
Strange But True
CAN you game Rock-Paper-Scissors? Yes. There is “the strategy of real players looks random on average but actually consists of predictable patterns that a wily opponent could exploit to gain a vital edge”.... More »
8th, May 2014
Music
REMEMBER when the Arctic Monkeys first burst onto the scene? Ordinary kids, making sharp, loud rock 'n' roll coupled with slanted looks at society and crapfun nights out? Even if they weren't your bag, they sure were fun to have around. They made gloriously dumb music and matched it with an intelligence that their peers lacked... More »
8th, May 2014
Celebrities
Buk-Buk-bukin' hell... More »
7th, May 2014
Reviews
SHAWN Thomas has been arrested for irritating the police. For filming police in a Crown Heights subway station, Police Officer Rojas nicked Thomas. That arrest was - of course - filmed by a passer by... More »
ARE Arsenal set to buy Bayern Munich's Javi Martinez? The Telegraph says they could be... More »
7th, May 2014
In Pictures
DID you learn taxidermy via a correspondence course? Did you think you could do better than these horrors? Did you ever dream of making five mice into novelty nail guards? ... More »
7th, May 2014
Celebrities
AND so it came to pass that Katie Price and Kieran 'Loud' Hayler are no longer an item. She claims on twitter that her third husband of some months has been chrating on her her with married-mum-of-two called Jane... More »
7th, May 2014
Music
EVERYONE outside of the music industry knows that people who illegally download also buy music. For example, Person A buys a lot of vinyl, but also illegally downloads a load of stuff he wouldn't normally buy, like that song they hear on the radio now and then... More »
7th, May 2014
Sports
UNSURE why Fulham have been relegated from the Premier League? Mohammed AL Fayed knows... More »
REVOLTING PR of the day: dating site celebrates trouble in Ukraine. The PR drivel trumpets the joy of desperation and poverty... More »
7th, May 2014
Flashback
1 WHEN Joe DiMaggio heard his name in Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson”, he reportedly went into a rage and wanted to sue. To him, it sounded like an insult and insinuated that he was dead (“Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away.”) In truth, it was a homage – Paul Simon had worshiped DiMaggio growing up. The fact was explained to the baseball legend, but it’s likely he never really understood... More »
7th, May 2014
Money
1 THIS is going to cause an awful lot of shouting around and about the place but it's also an excellent idea. That the NHS should start charging people when they make a doctor's appointment. The shouting will come from those who insist that the NHS must be free at the point of use. The excellent part comes from the way in which the NHS should not be free at the point of use... More »
FINALLY. They are looking for Paige Chivers. Police are searching for her body in Bispham, Lancashire. Paige was last seen in Blackpool in 2007... More »
7th, May 2014
Reviews
2 DID you know the chicken on Pizza Express salads and pizzas is halal? You did? The Sun didn't. But it just found out... More »
