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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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, Didn’t

Here's another pesky but obligatory year-end list for me to get out of my system: it's my Top 5 list of the gigs I really would have liked to have gone to in 2008 but for one reason or another didn't.I'm sure I can come up with something snappier than that.5. Public Enemy, Custard Factory, Birmingham. I mentioned this during one of my 11-11-11 write-ups, but sort of subsequently forgot about it. I'm sure it would have been fun.4. Band of Horses, Birmingham Academy. Clare bought us a pair of tickets, there was a mix up over the dates and [...]

My Top 5 Gigs of 2009

Why Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending explanation based on the 'Law of Fives' (which, according to Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy, claims that everything in the universe can be connected to the number five if you try hard enough), but that looked too much like hard work.Instead, I'll just tell you the truth: I opted for a Top 5 because I didn't go to very many gigs in 2008.Five of 'em, though, were fucking awesome...5. Bearsuit, Latitude Festival 2008 - Pete [...]

Top Ten Commandments

It's embarrassing to admit this, but we're into the third week of January and I still haven't cobbled together one of those obligatory end-of-the-year lists for 2008. I can't begin to explain how bad this makes me feel.These lists have become such a staple of the blogosphere that each and every one of us feels obliged to complete one each and every year. You know the sort of thing: My Top 10 Albums of 2008, My Top 10 Films of 2008, My Top 10 Bloody Top 10s of 2008... each one a highly subjective attempt to reduce the year's cultural [...]

The Inauguration

I have a confession to make.It's not an easy thing to admit to. In these rheumy-eyed, cynical times it can be considered dreadfully unfashionable, politically naïve and more than a tad suspicious. In certain circles it is regarded as an early indicator of the onset of water on the brain. However, at the risk of losing my friends, my credibility and even my credit rating I have to come clean:While listening to President Barack Obama's inaugural address today I found myself experiencing an overpowering sense of optimism.There. That wasn't so difficult to say.

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