This Sunday brings the 2013 edition of the cycling spring classic Paris – Roubaix. I can remember being drawn into the Tour De France on World of Sport in the late seventies, where it quickly became apparent that it was a technical, complex and interesting sport to understand (the sort Read more…
Having watched the first episode of Adam Curtis’s latest documentary, I wrote how I wasn’t quite at ease with some of his proofs of how technology had influenced society. I was keen to see how he developed his ideas, which rolled on into a new direction, of “How the idea Read more…
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a three part documentary on BBC 2 by Adam Curtis, who made the fantastic The Power of Nightmares, an exploration of how the Islamic Fundamentalists and the American Hawks rose from the same point in history, each with complementary aims, and Read more…
It’s always good to try and get yourself into someone else’s mindset. Try and see the world from their point of view. So today I was wondering What Would Simon Cowell Do? See, he took a little dent this Christmas, what with the Rage Against The Machine campaign. X-Factor stuff Read more…
is the last shot of this Pepsi Max commercial: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKV0QuQsonk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1] It makes me angry beyond words. Well okay it doesn’t do half of that acheter viagra en ligne suisse. However it is terrible. What exactly are they doing at the end there? I don’t understand. Maybe I refuse to Read more…
I’ve just been reading Charlie Brooker’s latest Screen Burn column. You should too. Then come back here. Done that? Good. Right, where were we? Okay, early on he sums up nicely one thing that really annoys me about television at the moment. Sometimes there is a need to explain who Read more…
Psychoville on BBC2 is starting to pick up pace now. All the disparate strands are now intertwined, and the murder and terror is coming thick and fast. Dawn French’s terrible blood-transfusion revenge was a particular gruesome highlight. Now we’re nearly at the end, it seems clear that they really have Read more…
So tonight’s episode of Big Brother 10 had quite a lot going on. Kenneth the Evil Villain in tears over the thought of his girlfriend doing naughty things without him, despite one of his first sentences on greeting her in the house being “Wow, 58 days of loyalty, who would Read more…
Last night’s show had a slightly different feel to it, it seemed like Charlie Brooker was a little brasher, a little louder, a little more cunty. This was no bad thing at all. Mixed in with some quality comments from Frankie Boyle (“they’re supposed to be experts, what did they Read more…
One of the reasons I started using WordPress instead of Blogger was so that I could post some of my old diaries online (Blogger didn’t at the time allow you to go back beyond a certain date which was not early enough). Over time I’ve gradually been putting up some Read more…