Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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The clue is in the name

Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has been in the news a lot this week. These stories were all very serious issues that merit very serious discussion by very seriously-minded people. As I'm not a particularly seriously-minded person, however, I feel more comfortable turning my attention to something altogether more glib, trivial and frivolous. Namely, so to speak, Lord Judge's name. It does seem slightly odd (to me, at least) that someone with the surname Judge ends up becoming the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. This would seem to support the theory of nominative determinism, whereby a person's surname [...]

Music Haiku: My Favourite Albums of the Decade

Here's some more self-penned haiku, this time covering my favourite records of the last ten years: 20. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005) Sufjan's Prairie State I wish he did all fifty (Yes, I fell for it) 19. Jeffrey Lewis - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That The Light Shines Through (2003) Anti-folk hero Serves comic stripped down delight Raw, honest and fun 18. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) Poptastic Polly Her most commercial album That never sells out 17. Pulp - We [...]

Lord of the Frogger

In the Seinfeld episode The Frogger, the eponymous Jerry and his "short, stocky, slow-witted and bald" best friend George Costanza visit a soon-to-be closed down pizza parlour they used to frequent at high school. They discover that the owner still has the old Frogger arcade game they used to play as kids, and the Frogger machine still displays George's high score of 860,630 points. George regards this as his greatest ever achievement, so resolves to buy the machine off the pizza parlour owner ("I'm never gonna have a child. If I lose this Frogger high score, that's it for me"). [...]

Treme Trailer

HBO have just released a teaser trailer for Treme, the new series from The Wire's creator David Simon. The show is set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and centres around a group of local musicians. It stars Wire alumni Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters (who played Bunk Moreland and Lester Freamon in the Baltimore-set TV masterpiece) as well as the mighty John Goodman and - somewhat bizarrely - Elvis Costello. Here's the trailer:

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