Month: July 2009

  • Thought Vomit #79: ft. Bang Goes The Theory

    Bang Goes The Theory promised to take science out of the lab and put it to the test. That’s possibly a laudable endeavour, especially if there’s a serious intent to bring scientific understanding to a wider audience, but I was left with the distinct taste of bum gravy in my mouth. Leaving aside the irritating…

  • Thought Vomit #78: ft. Holby City Woman

    I’m having trouble formulating the opening sentence of this carrot chunder, so bear with me. Maybe I’ll begin with an aside. Mr David Cameron plundered the depths even further recently, and not simply because he went on the Christian O’Connell show, but because he clearly engineered a “gaffe” in a low brow effort to be…

  • Episode Fifty Seven

    Evening: Episode Fifty Seven This week, swears, Jonathan Meades, salad bowls, Garry Bushell, crash diets, celebrity quotes, Jeff Goldblum, Megan Fox, Nick Knowles, Dirty Dancing and Hollow Man.

  • Thought Vomit #77: ft. Pulp Fiction 8

    Chapter Eight Vic Malone could feel the end in sight. Behind him, he was leaving behind a useless and probably corrupt NYPD. So much of what used to be home now stank of something rotten. The cops were in the pockets of the criminals who were in the pockets of the lawyers who were in…

  • Thought Vomit #76: ft. Pulp Fiction 7

    Chapter Seven Vic strode back into Police Headquarters under very different circumstances from when he was last here. As the sun blazed in through the giant stained glass windows, casting colourful, almost Messianic light all over him, he looked at the awe struck faces. The entire department had gathered in the huge reception lobby, as…

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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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