Master of deception
A lifetime love of magic and illusion means it’s no surprise that I’m a fan of Derren Brown, and especially the way that, by pretending to be totally open about how he achieves the remarkable effects he does, he has avoided being “exposed” on YouTube as many more conventional magicians are these days. In truth, he isn’t totally open about his […]
Raquel Welch – My Beauty Secret
It was fun to see Raquel Welch on the Piers Morgan show on ITV. When I was a kid, she was THE sex symbol when the term “sex symbol” was still used. None of us boys had EVER seen a Raquel Welch movie, I don’t think, but we all knew who she was thanks to her […]
The internet has eaten itself
There was a time, before internet shopping took off, before Ebay, before YouTube, before FaceBook became cool and then uncool, when the main purpose of the internet seemed to be the dissemination of intermittently amusing short films and animations. (Well, that and porn, obviously. Apparently.) I even had a job compiling hundreds of these clips into […]
Heart-stopping TV from 50 years ago
You really HAVE to take 10 minutes out of your busy day to watch this – please! You’ll love it…unless you’re scared of heights. A few days ago, Twitter was a-tweet with the news that a man called John Noakes had gone missing – thankfully temporarily – from his home in Mallorca. Now, to anyone […]
Eurovision, Australia and Lee Lin Chin
I haven’t watched The Eurovision Song Contest in years. Not, I should add, through any especial resistance, it’s just that I haven’t been in on the night, or something else has taken precedence. And, no – it’s not “I had a library book to return” – I’m really not being snide. I just haven’t watched it, OK? […]
