22nd, February 2014
The Consumer
DID you own a “Too Cool To Do Drugs” pencil in the 1990s? So long as you weren't a pencil user, the message was succinct and pure. But those of you who like a sharpener or several, realised that the more pencil you used, the more the message changed.... More »
22nd, February 2014
Celebrities
IT'S 1974, and all the cool kids are buying David Live, David Bowie's first live album, recored at Philadelphia's Tower Theatre. Well, they would buy it once they're pocket had been emptied by this TV advert... More »
22nd, February 2014
Strange But True
THE Brains' Trust calls 42-year-old Robert C Williams... More »
22nd, February 2014
Arsenal
More statue wonderment.... More »
22nd, February 2014
Film
2 WITH J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII in the pipeline comes the news that Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher will reprise their iconic roles in the George Lucas franchise for the first time in over thirty years, since 1983’s Return of the Jedi. What impacts have time and ageing had upon courageous Empire-busting rebels Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia?... More »
22nd, February 2014
Celebrities
When Hitchcock met Bankhead.... More »
21st, February 2014
Money
THIS is, of course, the moment that all Apple fanboys have been waiting for, the opportunity to get up close and personal with their now departed icon. The ability, even, to give his arse a good licking:.. More »
21st, February 2014
Celebrities
That's right! Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno - the one who looks like the product of a beefeater having had sex with a pack of value sausages - sent some love through his smartphone toward the people of the Ukraine. Their fearful tears and despairing anger will now be replaced with great feelings of hope and peace, because some fella with a giant haircut dribbled something in 140-characters or less... More »
21st, February 2014
Celebrities
QUESTIONS everyone born in the 1990s is asking: Why does Miley Cyrus, in her current show, "stuff a thong in her mouth and simulate oral sex on a Bill Clinton impersonator"? Is it because... More »
21st, February 2014
Flashback
10 THE trouble with American situation comedies in the 1970s and 1980s was that you never knew what you were going to get when you tuned in: was it going to be light-hearted entertainment or tales from the darkside? There was nothing worse than sitting on the couch, ready for 30 minutes of laughs, and instead being served a smorgasbord of human suffering... More »
21st, February 2014
Arsenal
MOST football fans would like to believe that Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben spat on Arsenal's Bacary Sagna during their Champions League last-16 tie at the Emirates. It's not because we dislike the French defender; it's because we think Robben is an irritating tosser... More »
21st, February 2014
Flashback
Lord Willis, who recently attacked ‘The Beatle Cult’ in a House of Lords speech is pictured with his daughter Sally, as they listen to the Yardbirds in the back garden of his home in Shepherd’s Green, Chislehurst,.. More »
21st, February 2014
Flashback
2 FLASHBACK to 22/05/1964: A Vietnamese soldier ties the hands of a Viet Cong guerrilla to an armored troop carrier before dragging him through the stream in an effort to make him talk... More »
21st, February 2014
Politicians
IT is now legal to refuse to serve gays in Arizona shops and hotels - but only if it offends your religious beliefs. State senators voted Wednesday to let businesses refuse to serve gays based on owners' "sincerely held" religious beliefs. The 17-13 vote along party lines, with Republicans in the majority, came after supporters defeated an attempt to extend existing employment laws that bar discrimination based on religion and race to also include sexual orientation... More »
21st, February 2014
Reviews
EXIT via the gift shop. Goldblog spotted one at the German''s Dachau concentration camp. Rachel Salamander's bookshop "Literaturhandlung", in the visitors' center of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, "specialises in the history of Dachau Concentration Camp and those persecuted by the Nazi regime, but books on related topics are also available. There are also a number of books on Jewish culture and literature."... More »
21st, February 2014
Celebrities
A month of extreme weather and Winter Olympics has brought the downfall of members of the public… More »
20th, February 2014
Flashback
ON This Day in photos - February 20 1993: John Venables and Robert Thompson (both aged 10) are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool... More »
20th, February 2014
Film
4 EVERY now and then, Hollywood comes up with a good concept, and then competing studios rush to ruthlessly exploit it. Remember the summer of 1998, and dueling asteroid pictures Armageddon and Deep Impact? Or 1988, the year of the “body switch” movie like Big, Vice Versa and 18 Again? Or how about 1989? That was the season of underwater horror and sc-fi cinema with Leviathan, Deep Star Six, The Abyss, and Lords of the Deep. Perhaps nothing nearly so dramatic occurred in the summer of 1997 by comparison. However, two notable, big-budget genre movies --- Contact and Event Horizon -- were released within approximately one month of each other, and both spotlighted a machine or device that could open a gateway to another place: a distinctly spiritual dimension.... More »
20th, February 2014
Celebrities
2 LAST night, at the spectacularly dreadful Brit Awards, David Bowie won some award and sent Kate Moss to do his acceptance speech. In it, he signed off with "stay with us Scotland." Of course, what's funny about that is, is that Bowie lives in New York, because obviously, Bowie cares so much for the unity of Britain, that he's buggered off to live in America. He obviously missed the letter England wrote him, which said "stay with us, David.'... More »
20th, February 2014
In Pictures
WHAT did Kiev's Independence Square look like before it turned into a scene from a Slipknot video? There is big trouble in the Ukraine... More »
20th, February 2014
Key Posts
DAILY Mail writers don’t have children, they have material. Among the coterie of wearisome women columnists that pour out self-parody in prose for the Daily Mail’s malevolent Mekon boss, Paul Dacre, Shona Sibary is the worst offender. While Liz Jones mines her own mental illness for copy, Sibary exploits her four children repeatedly and shamelessly... More »
THIS will sound a little contrary, but bear with me: the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook for $19 billion contains the seeds of what's going to kill Facebook in the end. For it's a sign that it's both relatively easy to start a new messaging application and also that Facebook is going to have to keep buying up the new ones as they appear. And that way lies eventual bankruptcy. More »
20th, February 2014
Flashback
Turn the machine on....now! More »
20th, February 2014
Celebrities
READING the Mr Porter mail-out magazine Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf spotted a segment on Warren Beatty. As he says, "Pretty harsh on Annette Bening... More »
20th, February 2014
Flashback
2 HAVE you been wasting precious hours of your day wondering where A Flock of Seagulls got their name? Well, wonder no more. Before your very eyes are the etymologies of 1980s pop-synth and post-punk bands, illuminated for posterity. No more shall mankind contemplate the origin of Kajagoogoo. Mystery solved... More »
