When contemporary popular culture fails to please, go retro. That's my motto and I'm sticking to it.

You may or may not be old enough to remember the 1980 movie version of Flash Gordon but I'm certainly am and it always fills me with the glow of lovingly toasted cheese, seasoned with a sprinkling of the sauce of unexpected perviness ( Read more... )

First of all, I should confess that I haven't actually seen The Hobbit* yet. Nonetheless, this is no barrier to my imagination, which has been exposed to a lot of publicity posters and has therefore become temporarily enchanted by the ridiculousness of dwarf hairstyles. So much so, in fact, that I somehow found myself creating the following piece ( Read more... )

So I saw Skyfall recently, and enjoyed it. And while I don't really have anything more eloquent to say about it than that, I thought I'd scribble a little tribute to Judi Dench's monumentally classy M. Why? Because she rocks, of course.


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Watchers of space-telly may be aware that Red Dwarf has recently returned to British TV screens. While its glorious peak was probably some time in the past, the new series has stirred a fond nostalgia in me and even made me giggle out loud a couple of times. So here's a quick tribute to one of the funniest bits of the last few weeks.


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A few days ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with the thought "Sherlock vegetables!" Then I couldn't get back to sleep again until I'd worked out what the whole cast would be. My brain is a strange place sometimes.*

I think it's only fair to share the results of this bizarre exercise with you...


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You may have noticed the recent boom in naughty novels and a subsequent massive rise (oo-err!) in the desire of publishers to shove sex scenes into everything from Jane Eyre to Alice in Wonderland, all the better to rake in a portion of the Dirty Dollar or Prurient Pound ( Read more... )

Here's a portion of visual whimsy from me, albeit on a fairly unseasonal subject.

This Guardian article about reading on holiday introduced me to a charming quote from Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia (no, I haven't read it either). But instead of just requoting it, I decided to combine it with a pictorial tribute to one of my fave illustrators, ( Read more... )

I was going to declare this Post A Picture Of A Cat For No Reason Day, and then I remembered that this is the internet, where every day is Post A Picture Of A Cat For No Reason Day.


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As regular readers will know, I am famed for my firm stance against the corruption of this nation's youth by the debauched medium of television. It therefore falls to me to announce a shocking piece of showbiz news ( Read more... )

An anonymous person at fandomsecrets suggested that Postman Pat would make a great serial killer. Of course, it's dangerous to expose me to such provocative statements, because I am easily driven over the edge and this kind of thing tends to happen:


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