Category: Thought Vomit

  • The Infinite Baker Kage
    The Infinite Baker Kage

    There’s no setisoppO this week, sorry, mainly because Iszi is having a new floor laid. Instead though, here’s the latest episode of The Z List Dead List, the podcast about obscure people from history. Here’s how Iszi describes this one. Accidentally predicting the future in her sci fi novels, Kage Baker’s books set alight the…

  • The Daniels Boyle
    The Daniels Boyle

    This is going to get a bit convoluted, so bear with me. Last night, I was watching Keeping Up Appearances, the Patricia Routledge sitcom from the 90s. As is my wont, I sometimes look at Wikipedia whilst watching 90s sitcoms (I mean, it’s a 90s sitcom but it has a whole episode about a vicar…

  • Fox’s First Foray
    Fox’s First Foray

    This is how the newly minted Fox Network lined up its shows for its prime time launch in 1987. Some of those shows will be familiar to you, but some of them can’t pass us by without remark. Werewolf premiered with a two hour pilot, and followed with 28 episodes. It had a nice little…

  • Xaja Diuqil
    Xaja Diuqil

    It’s not just me that has old advertising slogans stuck in his head. My friend Ashley reminded me about this one that has been in his for months. And now it’s stuck in mine.

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Volcano?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Volcano?

    Let’s wander over to the podcast again, you know the one, wherein we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. It’s called setisoppO. I’m sure I must have mentioned it before. Anyway, on this one we work out the opposite of a volcano, the opposite of water, and the opposite…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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