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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Tom Waits, Kool Keith: Spacious Thoughts

Taken from hip-hop duo NASA's Spirit of Apollo CD - which features a multitude of mouth-wateringly eclectic musical collaborations - here's the video for Tom Waits and Kool Keith's "Spacious Thoughts". It is, of course, quite brilliant.

Welcome to Wayne’s World

As a delicate, dreamy soundscape filled both tiers of a new and extremely packed Birmingham Academy last Tuesday night, a silhouetted dancing girl drenched in phosphorescent hues performed a saucy routine on a massive crescent video screen behind the stage. It looked like she had no clothes on, but silhouettes often give people that impression. For several minutes she continued to shimmer psychedelically and sashay suggestively before erupting in a dazzling explosion of light. As the audience blinked frantically, trying to disperse an unwelcome chorus line of phosphorescent dots and after-images, this coruscating brilliance seemed to contract and coagulate, transforming [...]

Star Trek: Strange New Words

J.J. Abrams' rather excellent Star Trek film will be available on your home entertainment format of choice this coming Monday. That seems like a reasonably good excuse to dig out the following slice of Trek-themed nonsense from my archives: [imagebrowser id=1] It's a short parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation (or should that now be Star Trek: The Previous Generation?) that was illustrated by my pal Rob Walsh, a proper artist (he has exhibitions and stuff) who was gracious enough to illustrate several comic strips for me in the past. Rob's a tremendously talented chap and I think he [...]

Fighting like Bats and Bonds

I went to Worcester last weekend to catch up with my old pal Phil. He and his lovely fiancée Beth are getting married at the end of the month and they've asked me to be their Best Man. This makes me very proud. Phil and I drank beer, stayed up late and chatted about the various things that we've been chatting about for years. While I was there he introduced me to a couple of rather excellent movie trailer mash-ups that I hadn't seen before. A mash-up, in case you don't already know, is where two or more movie trailers [...]

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