Watched the first episode of E4’s new teen drama Skins, expecting a horrific car crash of clichés and trends, but was most pleasantly surprised to find that it was at the very least a watchable, and at times very well written and made piece of fluff. I shall continue to watch at this rate, [...]

I think it’s very encouraging that the American media seem to have lifted the veil of partisanship that’s cloaked them throughout the Bush presidency. One example would be this excellent interview with Dick Cheney from CNN, in which Dick Cheney is basically made to bend over and apologise for being a naughty boy in [...]

For some reason Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe was irritating me at the back end of last year, and yet here we are in a new year and it is making me chuckle like a churlish schoolchild.
Going full-time in telemarketing hell has to go down as one of the stupidest ideas that has ever come across [...]

Immense thanks (or indeed props) go to Heather for pointing out the following video to me:

I haven’t laughed that hard in a good long while. However, Miss Heather, I see your Fucking Hoff Style and I raise you this!

If you make it to the end of this second one the title of this post [...]

Is it so wrong that I’m gaining perverse amounts of pleasure from the premiere of American Idol? I just love watching talentless people being utterly stupefied by people pointing out the measure of their inadequacies. it’s what would never lead me to audition for anything of the like. The nagging, gnawing feeling [...]