Excellent… I was just looking through the Paste Magazine log files (don’t ask – slow day at work) and I discovered that there is a real boxer called “Robert Allen”. A middleweight apparently. Yesterday someone did a search on him in Google using the string “boxer robert allen”. The top search result for this is Atmospheric Anomaly. Perhaps not what they were looking for. Try it for yourself (although there’s no guarantee that it will…

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So it’s that time of year again. Don’t get me wrong, overexposure to Lenny Henry, people in baths of baked-beans and dubious office comedy aside, Comic Relief is generally a good thing. The only reason I mention it is the fact that I had the misfortune to watch one of the episodes of “Celebrity” Fame Academy earlier this week. [Tellingly, the official title for the show doesn’t even actually include the word “celebrity”. Is it…

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Some people from “Richard and Judy” are filming at work today. It’s going to be on the show tomorrow, part of a feature on “Medallion man” makeovers. Some of the guys here have volunteered to be given said makeovers (which from what I can tell seems to amount to 70s afro wigs and flares). Of course, if you can’t watch, maybe you’d like to punch them in the face instead. Your choice I guess. [UPDATE:…

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Someone sent me this earlier, it’s from yesterday’s guardian: “Sky News, meanwhile, remains cripplingly self-effacing. ‘Of course, you the viewers can have your say on Saddam’s long-range missiles,’ claimed a presenter on Friday. ‘Just press the red button…’” That sort of reminds me of something I saw the other day on one of the shoddy cable channels we get. It was a trailer for a documentary about the conflict in the Gulf in the early…

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