View from the Potting Shed

Now, I have to admit that I don’t list Cannibal Corpse amongst my favourite bands, but this video is utter genius.
WARNING: Don’t watch/listen to it if you are easily offended.
Cannibal Corpse’s last album “Kill” has one of the most tame titles, or indeed covers, of any of their albums in their 17 year career. Who […]

It looks like Weebl and Bob have been playing Valve Software’s Portal this week.
Portal is now available bundled with The Orange Box, and appeals to me more than the Half Life games. Check out the trailer.
Weebl and Bob are two of my favourite cartoon characters. Ever.

(Image from Oscar Controls)
Each week b3ta.com run a feature whereby they pose a question and readers write in with their answers.
Last week’s question was: “Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube […]

How did I completely miss Mitchell and Webb’s Peep Show when it was on the electric television?!
It was my cousin Zack who emailed me a few months ago from the United States of Americans and recommended it. “Why is British comedy so much better than American?” he said. Or something like that. He uses […]

A few months back I stumbled across a website that had this bright red box proudly displayed on its page:

It was clearly an advert for something, but I thought that it might be quite fun to see what it reckoned “the exact name of my perfect lover” would be.
I already knew: Jane Ellison Saunders.
So I […]

Why do the Japanese always have better TV game shows than we do?
The best we have at the moment is Noel Edmonds presenting Channel 4’s Guess-What-Box-The-Big-Number-Is-In. Meanwhile the Japanese are getting to watch Human Tetris.
Utterly genius!

Yesterday evening I decided that I should like to listen to the soothing tones of Halford:

Just to clarify, I do not mean Halfords (with an ’s’), high street purveyor of car accessories, components and bicycles (at the Bike Hut).

As an aside, I do not believe that Bike Hut will become as popular as Pizza […]