The Rape of the Word “Rape”
Ladies and gentlemen, I am a geek. I know this because, sometimes, I visit web forums where people discuss the metaphysics of Doctor Who and the minutiae of Star Trek...
Jamie’s Slip of the Tongue
Reading this story from the Daily Star via DigitalSpy, I wondered why I’d never noticed the unfortunate spoonerism at the heart of it before. I mean, now I’ve seen it...
Make Your Own Magazine
As someone who makes a serviceable if paltry living out of writing for various magazines, news that Google plan to get into publishing would seem on the surface to be...
Whore, whore, whore.
Poor Santa Claus. Still reeling from the ignominy of having Christmas lights renamed “Winter decorations” in some UK towns last year, the gravitationally challenged present deliverer has been instructed to...
Squee PC!
Dudes, forget the fricking iPhone with it’s 12 zillion dollar price tag you have to pay in cash, updates that turn it into a plastic chunk o’nothing and two year...
Radiohead on your Computer, OK?
Radiohead’s former label EMI are recycling the Oxford mope rocker’s back catalogue in a manner that’s as canny as the band’s recent release of In Rainbows. That’s the album Radiohead...
And Finally…
A story about Internet dating that’s actually worth reading: The Life and Death of Jesse James
Tony Wilson – Northern Soul
This entry will only mean something to about three people on my friends list… One of my great heroes, Tony Wilson – the guy who discovered Joy Division, founded Factory...
Notes on Media Imperialism
Saw “Babel” last night – which is kind of like Crash, in that it’s a cinematic attempt to show that our difference makes us the same; we all suffer, grieve,...
OMFG!
Buffy fans of the world, prick up your ears! Joss Whedon announced at his Saturday Comic-Con 07 panel that he is “this close” to signing a deal with the BBC...