Running roughshod?
Surely you 'ride' roughshod. It's riot that you run

Additionally, a freak will typically have some sort of hideous physical disability, while a weirdo is more usually impaired in the mental department.

Vocabulary
Hi, Keith. Let me say how much I enjoyed your use of the word 'contemporaneous' in this article. I've only seen this word in print once before, in a volume of critical writings about Wuthering Heights I read when I was doing school exams back in 1976. It struck me then as being an excellent and very useful…

Better than a protein shake
'Drinkin' My Own Sperm' by Alvaro (The Chilean with the Singing Nose) is a perennial favourite.

Legendary
This show was a bitch to keep track of when it first aired on a 'minority interest' channel in the UK: airtime was anywhere between 11pm and 2am, and not always on the same night (if at all) - but what rewards there were for the persistent and determined viewer! The unholy trinity of Larry, Hank and Artie…

OK, so it's Friday afternoon here in the office…
Way back in my very early teens I saw a film called Sir Gawain and the Green Night, starring Murray Head, which my still-developing critical faculties hailed as a surrealist fantasy masterpiece. Two decades or so later I noticed it in the TV listings and told loads of…

Uhura's Mirror
Hey, Zack. Thanks for a great review. I haven't seen the Children episode for at least 25 years, but you brought it all back for me, fresh and fragrant. In answer to your question: ' …why the hell does Uhura have a mirror on her console, anyway?' - obviously the mirror, just like the reflection in it,…

Thrasher and Pocahontas off Rust Never Sleeps. Now those are some fucking excellent lyrics.

Le Din
Have you ever done that thing where you take a new record round to a mate's house to play before you've listened to it yourself - and then it turns out to be a bit lame and you end up just feeling embarrassed?

Pariah
Some friends lent my wife and I the DVD of this 'entertainment'. They are no longer our friends.

What's this? You guys read this shit while you're supposed to be working!? What an insanely brilliant idea! Thanks for the tip.

What about the Thracians?
C'mon guys! Where's Spartacus: Blood and Sand. This is by some margin the show that's given me more pleasure than any other this year. Brilliant, compelling gonzo tv drama. I can only assume that there was a significant delay before it aired in the UK, and that it actually topped your 2009…

The biggest show-blocker in king of the hill was Mike Judge's shitty drawings. Should have been a live action show.

I love you, Syd
Oh where are you now,
Pussy-willow who cried on this leaf…

They sound like fragrant blossom in a garden of cruel, poisonous thorns. They sound like pain. But most of all, they sound white. Very white. Almost albino, in fact. The black musical tradition is entirely absent from their broad palette of influences, but they none-the-less have soul. Great bucketloads of it oozing…

Dr Zachary Smith
As a 10 year old, I tuned in to Lost in Space looking for cool sci-fi action, what I got was a venal, whining cunt who was like a half-arsed Dick Dastardly without the charisma. Every fucking week he'd do something shitty and selfish that usually put the rest of the cast, and often himself in mortal…

D. O. A.
I shall dust off my old Throbbing Gristle LPs and lob them onto the turntable in a fit of commemorative nostalgia. Particularly looking forward to 2o Jazz Funk Greats. RIP, Sleazy.

Needful things
I'm thinking new socks. And maybe some matching handkerchiefs to go with them. Job done!

Best Beatles Albums not by The Beatles
1. Meet the Rutles (by The Rutles)
2. Deface the Music (by Todd Rundgren's Utopia)
3. Er…

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Not one vote for Strawberry Fields? Oh wait… I just voted for it now.