The Low End Of The Quarterback Rating

Added on 23 September 2008

I’ve been wondering how to make the website more statistical. Men need statistics. They need things ordered and numbered. They need league tables. They need averages. Batting averages, bowling averages. Number of goals scored. Strike rate. Quarterback rating. The NFL quarterback rating is a gr...

Don't Mess With You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Added on 22 September 2008

Rubbish Parents Take Kids To Completely Inappropriate Film Shock. I’m no stranger to taking the kids to the cinema to see something they probably ought not to at their age. When all the kids films are dubbed into the local language, generally you have to stretch the parameters. I draw the line...

Bob Dylan #45

Added on 19 September 2008

I think it's fair to say that Bob Dylan is like Marmite. (I mean that you either love him or hate him, rather than that he's gooey brown slime that tastes strongly of faeces.) Despite the similarity, there are many differences, and here's the most crucial. If the person across the table from you is ...

The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson (10th Anniversary Edition)

Added on 18 September 2008

Having delayed the release of The Final Cut until next year, I really ought to be getting on with the task of turning the original manuscript - which was known as Limited Edition, then published in Germany as Der Herr Der Klinge - into the last book in the Barney series. Before that, however, The Lo...

The Phantom Buggery of Harry Potter - Part 2

Added on 17 September 2008

So there we were, on holiday, and we had a Black Hawk Down situation. Two kids flaked out on the couch, the stuffing knocked out of them by the Grand Theft Auto of twenty-four hour bugs. They were reeling, and all they wanted to do was sit slumped in a great heaving mass of self-pity. We were, as it...