The Daily Scoundrel

Here’s a fact: Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams and I share a birthdate.  Not just a birthday, you understand, but an actual, proper, full-fucking-on birthdate.  I like to think we’re actually estranged twins and one day we’re going to meet, in some sort of hugely emotional embrace, and she’ll somehow imbue on me her power to [...]

Thank goodness for multiple categories, eh?  After a fairly long wait, Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe airs tonight, tragically relegated to BBC4 at 10pm BST.  Charlie Brooker is a very funny man who used to be a games journalist and now is all famous and on the telly.  You’ll have probably seen him before.  Some people think [...]

On the 31st of October 1992 I knew the true meaning of fear, and that fear, which infected my mind and the minds of everyone who saw it, was called GhostWatch. I was twelve years old and had gone round to a friend’s house for a Halloween party. We were all laughing and joking and [...]

Sitting in with the lady, we decide at half 10 to start watching Happy Feet.  It’s a film that… well, one I knew pretty much nothing about.  It’s about a dancing penguin – that’s about as much as I’d gathered.  Lady’s dad said she’d love it, which, since we tend to share pretty much the [...]

Last night, British television station ITV aired a frightening documentary on gaming addiction, and the terrifying results it can apparently have.
Maybe I was naive to expect an interesting, balanced report on the long-debated nature of an addiction that many still feel does not even exist.  Or maybe it’s just the mainstream media stooping to a [...]

Described recently on the Guardian.co.uk TV & Radio blog as “morbidly unfunny” Two and a Half Men is a sitcom that seems to elicit bile filled epithets like no other. And if the expressions on the faces of his fellow nominees after John Cryer’s Emmy Award win for best supporting actor are anything to go [...]

I’ve been playing Mini Ninjas for the past couple of days.  I’ve reviewed it for Resolution Magazine.  Go read.
Some further thoughts, though: when I played a demo of this a while back, I was certain it was going to be game of the year material.  It exuded this wonderful charm, and had an incredibly strong [...]

A first date is all about showcasing your best qualities, your good side. For many a person a trip to the cinema or watching a film at your house is the perfect situation in which to show how cultured you are whilst essentially sitting in the dark, eating snack food and not talking. But [...]

[And so we return to Sunset Valley, and the complete misadventures of Gordon Brown.  Part one here.]
After Tony Blair pisses off home, our hero decides to have a bit of a dance to celebrate: