24th, April
Flashback
No longer can visitors to Coney Island plunk down a few coins to play the unsettling attraction called "Shoot the Freak." And seedy, edgy, anything-might-happen Times Square? These days, it's all but childproof... More »
24th, April
Music
Arcade Fire - the very definition of catholic rock 'n' roll music - hit out at Coachella for the amount of non-guitar acts on the bill. Of course, attacking electronic music has an implied 'that's music for stupid people - they don't realise how much more they'd like 'real' music... sheeple.'... More »
24th, April
News
THE latest from yet another of that long line of "sex doctors" who would tell us all how to do it. Which is that you might be having sex that average number of times, two or three times a week, but you might also not be having sex for long enough... More »
24th, April
Books
READING old romance comic books is like slipping into the subconscious mind of the mid-century female. It was a time when their entire well-being and happiness revolved around dumb men; when every single action and decision was predicated on pleasing oblivious males. Thus, in comic after comic, with rarely an exception, you have the requisite scene of the beautiful female lying in bed pining desperately over some clueless oaf.... More »
24th, April
Key Posts
JOSIE Cunningham is the victim of a Twitter hunt. Righteous of Twitter is in favour of shooting the mum-of-two who said you would abort her child to appear on Big Brother... More »
24th, April
Celebrities
JOSIE Cunningham is the topless stunna mum-of-two who had her breasts enlarged on the NHS who told us that if asked to appear on Big Brother she would abort the child in her womb. And the tabloids love her... More »
24th, April
News
STEPHEN Sutton, 19, has terminal cancer. He aimed to raise £10,000 for charity. Then he posted a "final thumbs up". He said he was "nearing the end". People noticed. And the donations began to skyrocket... More »
23rd, April
Strange But True
LIES. Why? Let's take the dermatobia hominis, a species of botfly which lives off humans. The botfly traps a mosquito, lays sticky eggs onto it, and let's it go.... More »
23rd, April
Madeleine McCann
More news... More »
23rd, April
Fashion
IT'S 1978. All the cool kids are disco dancing. But how to get the look just so? Look no further... More »
23rd, April
News
The Canadian pop star has been to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo which marks the lives of Japan's 2.5 million war dead, including convicted war criminals who committed atrocities when they occupied large parts of China and South Korea.... More »
23rd, April
Celebrities
ON Top Gear's colonialism-in-a car-style trip to Myanmar, Jeremy Clarkson looked at the bridge their had built over the River Kwai (did you see what they did there?) and observed the "slope" on it... More »
23rd, April
Flashback
THE BBC say it’s 60 million while The Guardian wrote that it was 120 million, The Scotsman, no doubt proud of the band’s Scottish roots, guessed 300 million.Whatever the amount was the Bay City Rollers certainly sold a lot of records although they still grumble to this day about how little they saw of the profits. Forty years ago the band was just about to become massive. The lead singer, Les McKeown, who was just eighteen when he joined the band late in 1973, had his name inked onto a million school bags and notebooks. He was the Harry Styles of the day, maybe even more popular - there was less music to go round in those days... More »
23rd, April
Music
Paul Weller, complete with his old lady's haircut, has called for a boycott on the event, after copies of his limited 45 'Brand New Toy' were being sold on eBay for hiked-up prices... More »
23rd, April
Flashback
THEY say an Amy marches on its stomach. But food isn't all about going on the offensive. In World War 2 it was about relaxing. We've raided the archives for these photos of canteens in WW2... More »
23rd, April
In Pictures
ARE humans just meat bags full of meat bags we've eaten? Per Johansen casts an artist's eye on consumerism in Mæt (trans: Full), a study of plastic bottles filled to overflowing with raw meat. Does looking at the pictures make you hungry? ... More »
23rd, April
Film
2 FOLLOWING the incredible box-office and critical success of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the slasher film quickly became the go-to-format for up-and-coming horror filmmakers in the 1980s. These films had titles like Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and My Bloody Valentine (1981), and most of them concerned bloody massacres on holidays... More »
THE Guardian is not a tabloid. Mindful of that, Simon Godley talks of Manchester United: Manchester United face loss of more than £200m over David Moyes' sacking... More »
23rd, April
News
SO. How did the Independent illustrate the story "Nearly 1,000 weapons confiscated from schoolchildren in the past three years"?... More »
23rd, April
News
THE Journal Star has caught up with Jacob Elliott. He was arrested in the war on free speech. The Mayor or Peoria, one Jim Ardis, was very upset at the fake Twitter account, @Peoriamayor. He called the police.... More »
PEACHES Geldof has died. Her funeral has been held. So. What now for the paparazzi's long lens? Why, how about a picture of her widow and his sister-in-law out for a walk?... More »
23rd, April
manchester united
THE last time Manchester United had an interim manger was after the Munich Air Disaster. United's Assistant Manager Jimmy Murphy didn't travel to Belgrade with the team due to his commitments as Welsh national manager... More »
23rd, April
manchester united
THE front and back pages and chockfull of Manchester United news.... More »
23rd, April
Anorak TV
I found it on the internet... More »
23rd, April
Strange But True
TO Kansas, where suspected killer Jeffrey Chapman says the tattoo spelling a mirror image of the word "MURDER" on his throat might prejudice a jury... More »
