Words Dept.: archive

Just before midnight last night I was looking at the official website of Tony Hart in an attempt to find the theme tune to his 1980s kids show Hart Beat. My aim – ultimately achieved – was to stream it through the stereo in order to prove to friends what a fine piece of electro [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks: Love Levenshulme – Why not? Fabelhaft home page – Featuring “Ch Fabelhaft Too Hot To Handle ‘Tony’” Gregg Wallace from Masterchef random nonsense generator 2666 by Roberto Bolaño – Thinking of abandoning the crime paperbacks for something a touch more weighty.

A selection of bookmarks for January 15 U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work Designer credit cards Hughes plans for Kaka arrival as City close in on Milan playmaker – Meanwhile in the real world, Mark Hughes attempts to sign Craig Bellamy Rio police claim drug gangs cleared from City of God

I watched the last episode of the last season of The Wire tonight. I only started watching Season 1 in September after a friend recommended it with the kind of zeal you rarely encounter when people are talking about television programmes. Since then I’ve bought all the box sets (bar Season 3, which I borrowed) [...]

Release your inner geek by tittering like a child, as I did, at this Web 2.0-centric Downfall mash-up. Via the Guardian.

It’s now more than seven months since Channel 4 pulled The Devil Wears Primark, an Alexa Chung-fronted documentary (no, really) which was supposed to have examined Primark’s use of sweat shops. The C4 website says: The advertised transmission of The Devil Wears Primark on Sunday 1 June 2008 was postponed. We plan to show the [...]

The involvement of a vicar adds piquancy, I feel.

I went out to John Lewis this lunchtime and bought a new telly. I know there’s a recession on and everything but having spent the New Year staring at the huge new flatscreen TVs owned by family members, I suddenly realised my beloved 26-inch JVC (bought seven years ago for £375 in cash from a shop [...]

As I’ve nothing better to do and 2008 has now definitely finished, I thought I’d provide you with my list of my favourite things from the year just gone. Happy New Year, by the way. Film I thought Wall-E was surprisingly deep for a kids film and was also technically flawless. But There Will Be [...]