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The chair of wrong
This can’t be real. Can it? [Consumerist]
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When heroes have feet of clay
Last week I was wondering whether you could still enjoy something if it turned out that the people behind it were flawed. For example, “I’ve kind of gone off James Ellroy of late after seeing him in a documentary, because he seemed a lot less tough and a lot more creepy than I’d imagined him…
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Car valuations: websites are a waste of time
Thanks to the internet, we consumers are better informed than ever. A great example is the price of cars: we can use all kinds of websites to get an accurate picture of what a car’s worth, so the days when dealers could offer a derisory figure are long gone. Unless the car valuation sites are…
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REM are doing a European tour this year
Might be an idea to join the fanclub at REMhq.com if you’re interested: dates announced Monday, fan club tickets go on sale Wednesday.
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Mike Giggler is hanging around the Daily Mail website
It’s a perfect Daily Mail story*. Time travel could be a reality within just three months, Russian mathematicians have claimed. They believe an experiment nuclear scientists plan to carry out in underground tunnels in Geneva in May could create a rift in the fabric of the universe. And then John from London makes the perfect…
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…and this is where we keep the corpse
An estate agent was showing a would-be buyer round a house when he stumbled across the owner hanging dead inside a wardrobe.
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More Eels: live CD/DVD only available at gigs
Eels are putting out a new live CD/DVD, which for now will only be available at gigs: Gone were the violins, cello and viola. In their place was a motley crew of unrecognizable men in flight suits rocking with a fervor and abandon never before seen. If you attended one of the 2006 EELS live…
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Oh no! Mr. E has lost his blanket!
Squander Two recommended that I check out the BBC programme In The Night Garden, which is aimed at young babies. And he’s right, it’s brilliant – but something about it has been nagging me for a while, and I’ve only just realised what it is. The main theme tune sounds like Eels. Not “a bit…
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Mucking about
I’m trying to find a better way to present the worryingly large amount of content on this here blog, so I’m experimenting with various WordPress themes. Apologies in advance if I break the entire website.
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There’s no evidence for it, but it’s a scientific fact: the woman who makes lights flicker when she’s sexually aroused
Slow news day… Street lamps flicker when she passes, TVs change channels when she walks into a room and she sends electronic clocks haywire. Debbie Wolf claims she is one of Britain’s growing army of “sliders” – people who believe their presence causes havoc with household appliances, radios and light bulbs. Her bizarre abilities, dubbed…