Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

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Patrick McGoohan, 1928-2009

It saddens me that we're only a couple of weeks into 2009 and already I find myself writing about the death of one of my cinematic heroes.Patrick McGoohan passed away after a short illness in his Los Angeles home yesterday. McGoohan, of course, will chiefly be remembered as the writer, co-creator, producer and star of the seminal, subversive and staggeringly brilliant 1960s TV show The Prisoner. As I've probably mentioned elsewhere, The Prisoner was, is and probably always will be one of my all-time favourite television shows and over the years I've watched the each of those 17 episodes - [...]

Rowlf the Raindog

I was watching The Muppet Show with Clare and Lily this evening. I'd bought Lily the season 2 DVD boxset for Christmas and we were watching the one where the special guest is Peter Sellers. I say that in such an off-hand way you might be forgiven for assuming that I've got a vast, ecyclopaedic knowledge of The Muppet Show and have regularly watched every episode on numerous occasions. The truth is, the last time I saw Peter Sellers appear in The Muppet Show was over 30 years ago and I wasn't much older than Lily is now.It was still [...]

Woolies RIP

I've never been one to anthropomorphise business entities, so I don't tend to get too upset when a major High Street retailer goes out of business. Sure, I'll always sympathise with the regular people who end up losing their jobs on account of other peoples' errors of judgment and catastrophic SNAFUs, but I don't feel any great sense of personal loss when a well known retail outlet shuts its doors and goes to Jesus. When Ratners went bust, Bejams bit the dust and Rumbelows took its final dirt nap I didn't wear a black armband, close the curtains or shed [...]

The Dark Knight (Slight Return)

Thanks to my partner Clare for alerting me to the following twisted gem:

MMIX

So here we are, at the start of a bright new year; and here I am, thumping the keyboard like a sausage-fingered caveman, trying to hammer out my first blog post of 2009. It's also my first blog post in almost a month, but who's keeping track of these things, anyhow? Something odd has recently occurred to me. Actually, it's occurred to me at regular intervals over the last eight or nine years, but now's as good a time as any to share it with others. That's probably not the best thing to do when something odd occurs to you, [...]