All these years I've been dipping my pizza crust in mayonnaise when it would have been far more healthy to coat them in scrambled egg. Can I hire a film crew to follow me around recording everything I do? Ostensibly it will be to make a documentary about my personality, but really the cutting room … Continue reading Notes: →

A comedian is someone who treats jokes seriously and treats serious matters as if they were jokes. A philosopher is someone who treats jokes seriously and treats serious matters as if they were jokes. Amazingly talented people ruin things for the merely gifted. Anyone else think the iTunes album descriptions are really bitchy? Do giraffes … Continue reading Notes: →

Watching Desolation of Smaug I can’t help but feel a clash between my liberal socialist values and those of the series’ “heroes”. The quest of going to the mountain to kill the dragon, take back the gold and restore the dwarven kingdom is problematic. For starters, a dragon, whether evil or not, is a rare … Continue reading From the pen of Marcus Tatton-Blue: →