The day Bob the Builder taught my child to swear…
Tom LennonSince playing the Bob the Builder game on the CBeebies website my 4 year-old daughter now regularly says 'A plastic sh*t!' Thanks for that, Bob.
Since playing the Bob the Builder game on the CBeebies website my 4 year-old daughter now regularly says 'A plastic sh*t!' Thanks for that, Bob.
Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster + Tom Waits = Cookiewaits. It’s obvious, really, and I love this much more than any man should love love some […]
An Olympic-themed Tale of Teenage Turmoil from a weird, faraway land called 1988...
I’m a massive Tom Waits fan. A video for Hell Broke Luce (a rather excellent track from his rather excellent latest album, Bad as […]
I’ve had a song on heavy rotation in my head today. It’s an up-tempo ditty called Lord Byron’s Luggage by the criminally-underrated (and […]
From The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna:
‘What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty […]
The second issue of Dirty Bristow magazine features a piece I wrote entitled Lennon’s Guide to the Mythical Fauna of the English Midlands. It’s my attempt at presenting an overview of those Birmingham-based mythological beasts that have so often been ignored by local historians, cryptozoologists and the presenters of Midlands Today.
Sometimes I like to draw things. Not often, just sometimes.
Recently I was asked to provide an illustration for The John School, a marvellous short story […]
The UK government’s new e-petition website has been in the news a lot this week. For one thing, it’s been crashing a lot. […]
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show take on the News International phone hacking saga wasn’t broadcast in the UK. Fancy that.
The launch party for Dirty Bristow issue 2 (which, amongst many other things, will feature stand-up comedy from me) will now take place […]