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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Dillinger at the Museum

In which the author proposes combining Ben Stiller Night at the Museum comedy films with the lurid urban legend about John Dillinger's John Thomas

Wherever you go, there you are…

Saturday night's Technical Difficulties show on Rhubarb Radio was fun. Thanks again to Danny, Phil, Rich and Jane for inviting me along. It's available to listen again, and you can do so by clicking this: The theme of the show was Japan, so there was plenty of cool and groovy J-Pop music on the playlist. In case you don't know, J-Pop - or ジェイポップ, as they say in Japan - is a term used to describe popular music of Japanese origin. The 'J' stands for Japanese, you see. Of course, I only managed to work this out for myself [...]

Jesus Gonna Be Here

What I did want to do was Find The Story, get about and report on some hidden weirdness, odd sub-culture or unsavoury practice that I could expose. And I found nothing but a bunch of nice people, sorry. My Rhubarb Radio presenter pal - self-confessed 'open-minded atheist' Danny Smith - went to a Christian music festival, suprised himself by having a good time and has crafted a rather excellent, obervation-rich write-up on his experiences. It's here.

Madder, Badder

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm a fan of the German filmmaker Werner Herzog. As much as I enjoy his documentary films like 'Grizzly Man', I'm glad to see he's got what us philistines like to call a Proper Movie coming out soon. So far as I can tell, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans isn't a sequel to Abel Ferrara's superbly twisted sick-flick from 1992. Rather, its a different story about a different cop who exists in the same fictional universe as Harvey Keitel's notorious high-protein squeegee man. From what I've seen so far, Herzog's Bad [...]

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