What I Believe

I try to write as often as I can on here, but sometimes I struggle for topics. This is why I've started collecting lists of prompts and suggestions for posts, to save for days when the muse isn't with me. This post is inspired by one of those prompts: 10 Things I Believe I've done …

Book Review: Revolution by Russell Brand

To be honest it took me a while to get into this book. I found the early stages a bit of a slog and feared that this was where Brand and I would part ways. It seemed a shame as I've long been a fan and find him an interesting, funny and clever person. The …

Cringe

During one of his live shows Russell Brand talks about how sometimes just before he falls asleep his subconscious will throw up an embarrassing memory, which makes him kick off his blankets in response to the intense embarrassment. It's a funny bit that I'm doing no justice to, but trust me, his acting out his …

Milking it: Seriously, Josie, it’s getting really hard to have your back

Josie Cunningham, the notorious "NHS boob job" girl, has continued to haunt the tabloid press, and her newly arrived daughter has been born into a crazy world. Having narrowly avoided having her entrance into this world attended by four strangers, her daughter's now unwittingly become part of the tabloid circus following Josie's latest Twitter blunder. …

Who’s next? My Top 10 Would Be Doctors

This week Matt Smith, the actor currently playing the Doctor in Doctor Who announced that he would be leaving the show. Now, as fans of the show will know, this means the Doc is probably due to regenerate into a different form, meaning a different actor. Aside from Batman and James Bond, no other character …

Man Crush List Part 3

Brad Pitt More than just another pretty boy pin up, Pitt is a sensationally talented actor and has made several movies that I've really loved. He also comes across as just being a rather cool, easy going kind of cat off screen. Dude's pulled Angelina Jolie and is mates with George Clooney, placing him firmly …

Toothless: Least favourite ad of the moment

Ah, January. The time of year when in Britain where we all try and recover from gorging on mince pies, spend wildly in the sales and, of course, complain. According to "scientists" January includes Blue Monday, the saddest day of the year. Of course, this is entirely arbitrary and not taken seriously by anybody apart …

Lucky Dip

This week the Coptic Christians in Egypt selected their new pope. I'll confess I don't know much about the group, which is apparently the largest Christian minority in the middle East, but finding out how they chose the new guy, the artist formerly known as Bishop Tawadros, was quite surprising and I think quite cool. …

Movie Review: Rock of Ages

I freaking love 80s rock music. Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Iron Maiden, Journey, Poison, Guns N Roses, Meat Loaf, Twisted Sister- all that stuff  is just awesome. I've long held the view that I was born about 20 years too late, and would've been more suited to having been born in …