25th, March 2014
Strange But True
FACE of the week belongs to Mario, a mentally handicapped man dying of cancer, whose job was to muck out the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. Dying, he asked to bale to save farewell to his friends... More »
24th, March 2014
Flashback
IN 1941, Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information added footage of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will to the music of Me and My Girl... More »
24th, March 2014
Music
ONE of the funnest, daftest and most bizarre rock bands on the planet, are GWAR. A cavalcade of ogre faces, missing limbs, pantomime villainy, showers of blood and all manner of hilariously gruesome content, they were a b-movie writ large, parading around festivals and gigs, mixing schlock horror with stadium-sized metal... More »
24th, March 2014
Politicians
Putin, scourge of gays, is now a homosexual act prevention device... More »
24th, March 2014
Celebrities
JULIE Newmar was Catgirl. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place, in Chicago. Julie was the first Catwoman to TV's Batman. Her fabulous portrayal of the comic book temptress in the 1960s Batman has been praised in musical and film... More »
24th, March 2014
Celebrities
KATE Bush is touring again. Why did she ever stop? This 1979 BBC Nationwide documentary might shed some light on that question... More »
24th, March 2014
Flashback
Feel the glamour... More »
24th, March 2014
Flashback
An anti-French cartoon, showing a fat Marianne killing Algerian women and children while held up by a U.S. - marked bayonet in Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 1958... More »
24th, March 2014
Books
IN 1945, Thomas D Hornton wrote the book What men don't like about women... More »
THAT'S what the newspapers are reporting this morning, that Osborne has stung the big internet companies like Amazon and Apple by changing the rules on VAT rates. Although it's not actually Osborne who has done this, it's the EU... More »
24th, March 2014
Sports
THE El Clasico football rubber between Real Madrid and Barcelona was at 2-2 when Cesc Fabregas and Pepe executed the fabled double face-grab. It is the peek-aboo... More »
READERS who recall stories of Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole's vomit-fuelled extra-martial sex will enjoy the Sun's report on the player's love affair with "Ex-Towie star: Pascal Craymer... More »
23rd, March 2014
Flashback
Sixteen-year-old Simon Birrell (r), of Norwich, with millionaire Richard Branson, of Virgin Records fame, with the new video computer game, called 'Bug Bomb', which was designed by Simon... More »
23rd, March 2014
Books
WE get to see the face of God in Robert Crumb's Book Of Genesis. But was the representation of the Creator accurate? In 1974, Crumb gave us another image of God... More »
23rd, March 2014
Flashback
1 You should see the size of the pockets... More »
All post-match interviews will be like this, with the man once nicknamed The Baby-Faced Assassin translating other managers' words into what they really mean to say... More »
WENDY Simpson had been drinking when she walked up to the Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, branch of McDonald's... More »
23rd, March 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE MCCANN: Anorak's look at the missing child in the news... The Sunday Express is the only appear to lead with the missing child. And its news is chilling... More »
22nd, March 2014
Reviews
FOX News' anchors are are required by the terms of their contract to ask the most asinine questions imaginable... More »
22nd, March 2014
Key Posts
FRED Phelps, the man whose catchphrase was "god hates fags" and whose media-savvy Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas commandeer the dead and famous for their own self-promotion, is dead... More »
22nd, March 2014
In Pictures
This is exactly how plastic surgery. At last three of the people below are A-list Hollywood stars. Can you spot them?... More »
22nd, March 2014
Reviews
MALAYSIA Airlines Flight MH370 illustrates the importance of the comma... More »
22nd, March 2014
Celebrities
WHEN fashion designer L'Wren Scott was found dead, her boyfriend Mick Jagger was in Australia, on tour with the Rolling Stones... More »
22nd, March 2014
Reviews
AFTER the hacking scandal broke, there were many stories about cosy the police, media and politicians had become. It looks like sensitive information is now mere merchandise. Where are the checks and balances? Who is watching whom?.. More »
