Harry Potter Is Good For You

My latest SFX column mentions that I’m sure Severus Snape is really a good guy and, if anyone wants to know why, they should email me. Well, I guess I should be careful what I wish for, because I’ve been inundated! It’s gratifying to know that (a) so many people do love Harry Potter and [...]

Darth Vader Feels Nice

Picture this: Monday morning. Half asleep. Arrive in Soho. Walk into venue and head down stairs. Hear decidedly menacing heavy breathing. Jump out of skin as 7ft tall Darth Vader looms out of nowhere, closely followed by two gun-toting Stormtroopers…
DVD press junkets. Gotta love ‘em!
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith is out [...]

Work, Work, Work

We made it through our latest deadline! Hurrah!
Never work in the magazine industry if you don’t like long hours. And by ‘long hours’ I mean 15-hour days and 5.30am starts. It’s not nice. However, the hours may be long but at least the laughs are loud: our office is never dull. So many daft things [...]

Dead Funny

I was sitting on the train to work yesterday morning and the driver made the following announcement:
“I’m afraid to say that the Piccadilly Line is currently suspended, due to what we euphemistically call ‘passenger action’. Which means some poor soul has thrown themselves under a train. Oh dear. It’s not going to be a very [...]

Moondance

It’s deadline week and that means late nights at the office. It wasn’t too bad today – 8pm – but when you factor in my commute, I don’t get home until after 9pm. Sigh…
On the plus side, this evening there was the most astonishing blood-red moon. Dark, gorgeous scarlet, it made our humble moon looked [...]

Ong-Bak To The Future

I love The Philadelphia Story. It’s the perfect Sunday afternoon movie: Katharine Hepburn at her most glorious, Cary Grant suave and sassy, James Stewart sarcastic yet adorable. It’s the kind of film that takes your breath away with its dialogue; sharp and always funny, no matter how many times you’ve heard it. I think today [...]

Ride ‘Em, Cowboy!

I was so tired getting ready for work this morning that I accidentally poured contact lens solution on my toothbrush instead of toothpaste. Could’ve been nasty, seeing as the solution I used contained bleach. Man, my teeth would’ve gleamed.
The tiredness came from me getting home late last night after attending an advance press screening of [...]

When Worlds Collide

Today the English Cricket Team did a tour of London on an open-topped bus to celebrate bringing home the Ashes. Trust me, if you’re a cricket fan, it’s a big deal. Even if you’re not a cricket fan, it’s a big deal. England beat Australia, who usually cream our asses, and since our celebrations in [...]

Pressure

So I’m on the train to work this morning, feeling all happy cos I’ve got a new blog, and then it hit me: I have to fill the bloody thing. Every day. Otherwise I’ll look back on it when I’m an old lady and think, “Hey, what was I doing on 21 October 2007? There’s [...]

Howdy!

Welcome to my new blog!
Lord knows who’s reading this but chances are they know me and they’re wondering why I chose a name as shit as “Jayne’s World”. I have to agree, it is shit, but what the hell, Star Wars is a pretty shit name too when you think about it. Or Star Trek. [...]