Young Adult fiction is a twenty-first century phenomenon. Of course books aimed at kids and young adults isn’t new, but the enthusiasm with which it is celebrated by the young and not so young is certainly a mark of our times. I’m a geek, not a literature critic (dammit, Jim!) so I’m not going to go into the relative […]
Russell Brand has embraced a meme which mocked him on Twitter, and has recorded his own version of Blur’s Parklife, with the help of Irish band The Rubberbandits. The comedian’s tendency to use long, over-wordy sentences with observations on politics rang a bell with one Twitter user, who was reminded of the 1990s hit song: Russell Brand's […]
Back in December we wrote about how Upworthy, the good news, fluffy, heartwarming, annoying, viral video meme site was dominating interactions (likes and shares) on Facebook. So have you seen as many Upworthy videos lately? Me neither. It’s possible that Facebook users just got sick of all the sweetness, but if so, they had a […]
