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Never Mind The Bo*#&@#s, Here’s some Beethoven.

March 6, 2010
By Alex Coltrane

Sorry about the title, I know it’s a bit stupid but we all do stupid things sometimes, anyway who are you to tell me what’s stupid?  You’re not even my real dad.  Just watch the video and get off your high horse and onto a smaller horse. It’s me, playing what I know of Fur...
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Friday Night – (and yes I’ve got a job, thanks for asking).

February 22, 2010
By Alex Coltrane
Friday Night – (and yes I’ve got a job, thanks for asking).

Firstly, I would like to apologize for my prolonged absence; I realize this has probably caused those of you who have actually noticed a great deal of minor inconvenience. I’ve been busy audio-typing a genuinely traumatizing social services case, it’s lucky I’m so emotionally stable...
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Rejection Letters: The Final Frontier

February 6, 2010
By Alex Coltrane
Rejection Letters:  The Final Frontier

So I thought I had experienced rejection in all of its twisted forms throughout my search for that elusive job – by phone, letter, email and good old-fashioned face-to-face but it turns out that, no, I hadn’t. I heard the post dropping through the letterbox...
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5 musicians with monstrously large hands:

February 6, 2010
By Alex Coltrane
5 musicians with monstrously large hands:

You know what they say:  Big hands, large gloves – and these guys must get/have got their gloves specially made for them at a shop that specialises in making...
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An Idiot’s Guide To Life:

February 5, 2010
By Alex Coltrane
An Idiot’s Guide To Life:

I recently started teaching myself the piano, that’s right ‘teaching myself,’ aren’t I a fantastically talented uncertified genius?  No, I’m not and neither are you. That’s the first thing that...
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Got Piles? The Joy of Spam Comments.

February 4, 2010
By Alex Coltrane
Got Piles?  The Joy of Spam Comments.

I have now posted about 40 articles of my own and various contributions on subjects ranging from chocolate and stress to loan-sharks and other socio-economic ills in Yorkshire. I have...
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Christian Group Clamp Down on Naked Pets:

January 27, 2010
By Alex Coltrane

Militant Christian sect CANP (Christians Against Naked Pets) has launched a new campaign to ban domestic animals from prancing around in the buff. The group of local Reverends rose to...
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Yesterday’s Headlines Today:

January 27, 2010
By Alex Coltrane

-  Ed Balls ‘can’t say his own name without giggling’ reveals Mrs Balls -  Government drug czar caught scoffing twiglets outside 24hr garage -  Bob Geldoff donates daughter Peaches to Haiti...
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Balls.

January 26, 2010
By Alex Coltrane

Back in school, before Chlamydia was so fashionable, our Biology teacher Mrs Zygote thought it would be a great idea to set aside a box where pupils could anonymously...
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Sign-language interpreter saved by audience after heart-attack live on air:

January 23, 2010
By Alex Coltrane

Viewers watched in horror this morning as the interpreter on the Jeremy Kyle show had a minor heart-attack midway through the programmme while signing the popular phrase: ‘I didn’t...
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