Before you buy a house, you will hear old wives’ tales and made up statistics about how it’s the most stressful thing you can do in life.
Pah, you may say. I buy stuff all the time. Hell, I even bought a car/three-seat sofa/plasma TV/holiday and that cost multiple thousands of pounds. No way can buying [...]
You’re a vampire Michael! My own brother a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait til mom finds out, buddy.
RIP Corey Haim. I feel bad on behalf of everyone expressing grief at your passing who didn’t give two hoots about what you did when you were alive. Me included. Sorry.
1. Sitting in front of a mirror for an hour
Honestly, if I wanted to make myself puke I’d just stick my fingers down my throat. It’s more humane than making me deconstruct my appearance and all its flaws over the course of an hour, with increasingly ridiculous hair and someone irritatingly good looking flitting in [...]
Somewhere out there, there is a list. A list that has been created by an ‘Expert Council’*, taking into account the opinions of over 2,400 members of the British public. A list so extensively researched that it makes your university dissertation look like the scrawl on the back of a napkin. This list will change the [...]
The sad news broke last week that Shiny Media has gone into administration. All sorts of heinous crap has been shot* about this in the last few days. I won’t link to the gossip-loving drama fiends but suffice to say that plenty of gratuitous, self-serving rubbish has been spewed by people who are in no [...]
When I first heard about ultramarathons (as run by favourite author Haruki Murakami) I thought that was it. I’d found the sporting event in which I’d least like to partake. After all, I’d find it difficult to summon up the motivation to run away from a burning building and that’s with mortal fear spurring me [...]
After the is-he-isn’t-he drama, the shock of it actually being true and a day of jokes tasteless or otherwise, I realised today that Michael Jackson actually* died. I’ve read the entire Guardian MJ tribute edition cover to cover, I’ve got Thriller on and I’ve been seeking out internet grief; needless to say, I’m feeling gloomy. [...]
The Official UK Charts Company (which, presumably, feels we do so need music charts) has finally deigned that the UK’s charts should take streamed music into account – but still not for another year at least, according to this report from the BBC.
Talk about playing catch-up. Services like Spotify and We7 may have taken off [...]
My love for my phone is well documented, but today I reached a whole new level of ridiculous. On my way to work, I was walking down Old Brompton Road when suddenly, out of nowhere, came a schoolboy barrelling towards me. He was all overlarge blazer and enormous backpack, head down and in a serious [...]
I’m so impressed by the kids at Davenant Foundation School in Loughton, Essex, who went on strike after the school installed CCTV cameras in two classrooms.
Although apparently installed to record footage of best practice teaching, I for one wouldn’t do my best learning under the beady, suspicious eye of these bug-like cameras.
As a society, we’re [...]