Month: February 2004

  • Write Your Own Review

    Not exactly staggering news. But it seems that some authors have been writing favourable reviews of their own books on Amazon. Well there’s a thing! Who’d have thought it. And other writers are giving positive reviews to books written by friends. Well that happens all the time in the press anyway, so I wouldn’t get…

  • Marco Pantani

    This is pretty shocking news for any lovers of cycling.

  • Crap Television

    I really really really hate it when people like Mark Lawson start talking about the shared experience that is tat like Footballer’s Wives. Can I just reiterate something – it’s not that popular! I know that some in the media don’t like to believe it, but the final episode in the last series had an…

  • Top Up TV

    What a profoundly stupid idea this is! That’s probably a little extreme and unfair, but nonetheless, this’ll be dead in the water in no time – of that I’m sure. The idea is that subsribers can pay 7.99 a month to get a handful of additional channels. The website lists the 10 channels included in…

  • Eastern Standard Tribe

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  • Am I Missing Something?

    So let me be clear about this. I can pay a significant amount of money to see a bunch of adverts that were aired free to air to most of America last weekend. Why? The only one worth watching is surely this one.

  • Morricone

    I’ve moved onto Ennio Morricone at the moment – since I finally worked out that the theme music to the hit and miss Nighty Night is from the soundtrack to My Name Is Nobody. Morricone is one of my favourite composers, with the soundtrack album to The Mission being one of my favourite pieces of…

  • Tanner ’88

    US TV viewers sometimes don’t realise how lucky they are. Tanner ’88 is being repeated, with new introductions by Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau on the Sundance Channel. Regular visitors will know that I loved this series. Maybe someday those episodes with their new introduction will find their way onto DVD. One point I should…

  • Francoise Hardy

    Today, I seem to have been travelling around with a background of Francoise Hardy. What brought this on? Well I was watching the disappointingly poor Sea of Souls on telly last night, and frankly, by the end I was channel surfing. You really know that a supposedly thrilling drama hasn’t grabbed you if you’re seeing…

  • Light

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  • A Good Week for Ryanair

    Ryanair rightly lost their case against disabled passengers who needed weelchairs to get them to the planes. Then they issued a profits warning resulting in their shares taking a nosedive. They’re reported as charging their own staff for such things as uniforms. Finally, today the long awaited judgement from the EU was made. Broadly speaking,…

  • Absolute Power Episode Dropped

    Surely not! Just suppose Have I Got News was on air at the moment.