What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- L.O.V.E.
- 28 April
Have you seen those YouTube shorts that are nothing more than an animation to L.O.V.E. sung by something that sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium? The first time was kinda cute. Even the second time. But it's getting pretty fucking tiresome now: unoriginal, repetitive, and dull.
(more…)grumpy
- Elementary maths dear Watson
- 28 April
A man who drove a car into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, killing at least eleven revellers, has been charged with eight counts of murder. According to the Vancouver Police Department,
(more…)further charges are expected.
crime & punishment; elementary, my dear Watson!
- No place to hide
- 27 April
Are you LinkedIn? Yeah, me too.
(more…)grumpy; politics; teh soshull notwerk
- Clean 'round the bend
- 27 April
Only two years have passed since Zaria Gorvett and two like-minded
(more…)licence fee spongersfeature writers extolled the value of vinegar as a cleaning product on behalf of BBC Future, so it must be time for another article on the subject. And Katarina Zimmer is the woman for the task. BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; gotta respect the grift; health; science
- King of the swingers
- 26 April
Sean
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Combs' defence team has argued that he's not a criminal, rather that he has simply led the lifestyle of aPervPuff Diddy swinger
.celeb; crime & punishment
The latest updates to past woes
- Snow White: D.O.A.
- 29 April
At the risk of dancing on the grave, after five weeks on general release Snow White has finally limped over the $200M mark. Just.
(more…)entertainment; if schadenfreude didn't exist, it would have to be created; wit & wisdom of the comments section
- Snow White, vampire hunter
- 27 April
Somebody at the BBC obviously reads this blog!
(more…)culture vulture
- Six women and a giant dildo
- 15 April
The home page has finally caught up. Although this appears to be one of those stories that's subject to the BBC's stealthy update shenanigans—which itself might explain the time warp.
(more…)BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?
- Beginning of the end
- 7 April
I saw a YouTube short today which brought this post back to mind.
(more…)entertainment; obituaries; quoted for
WTF?
; wit & wisdom of the comments section- Lifting the veil
- 25 March
Of all the reviews I've watched and read—not so many, admittedly—Gary Buechler's is the funniest. I laughed so hard my wife threatened to leave the room. Okay, I knew that it would be a negative review going in, but that's not the point; the point was to see how he got there.
(more…)culture vulture; entertainment; world's most trusted BBC