Aldi Must Be Scared of This Price War If They're Resorting To Drug-Deals...

OK, Currant Bun-style headline outta the way, is this not the best reaction to Tesco's much reported (read: free advertising) price cuts? Cash-savers? Pah, we'll just spruce up our product names a little. Except when a marketing whiz who spends all day eating 35c crisps gets to name a product, they might be a little...mischievous. And you end up with this:



Bravo Aldi! Disco biscuits. Because that's what I want when I'm hung-over after a long bank-holiday and in need of sugar. Call me when they start selling "Gene Wilder's Flaming Ballsack"



Original Sources: The PROC and the pic. Cheers MillionDollarMan

Tipped For Greatness: Ra Ra Riot

Jesus this song is after bypassing my brain completely and lodging somewhere in my spinal cord. Coincidently, I've forgotten how to blink.



On the basis of their EP, I don't doubt that they'll be lauded for a few weeks in Autumn, then cruelly demolished by Winter.

What's with Pitchfork's Black Kids Review?

It got the infamous 0.0 yesterday, with added ironic photo review. Today it's up to 3.3 (and apparently rewritten). At this rate it'll be a great album by Friday.


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Four Star Pizza: Douchebags

If you were a fast food chain, where would you consider fair game for your adverts? Local football team? Maybe a billboard by a roundabout, or a splash page in a red-top? But you'd have to draw a line somewhere. Some places just don't suit advertisers. I bet they'd avoid places where people just shouldn't eat their product. Like a hospital. And they certainly should avoid ticker-taping the wards (the friggin' wards, where sick people spend all day wandering) with their damn flyers. Except that wan't good enough for Four Star Pizza who felt the need to leave these on all the wards of CUH today:


Well done 4*, you've elevated yourself from a peddlar of crummy pizzas to a predator of the sickly. You should be so proud.

Gadookery!!!

Wow, now that my hangover is in remission, I've had a chance to look at this blog properly. That last post about the Ting Tings was terrible. A barely salient point turned into a meandering, barely-coherent rant. So as way of apologising, now you can ream me out for craptastic posts instantly.

On the right is my Digsby widget (the word "widget", do I not like that). It's a brilliant IM tool, and you can send me anonymous insults whenever you want with it. Go nuts...

Oh, and more on Digsby here.

Pitchfork SOP

Plenty of people whinge about Pitchfork having it's own snooty brand of criticism, but just like Spiderman, P4K have learned that with great power etc...

Destroying buzz acts has become a bit of a raison-d'etre for the site since it's inception, and The Ting Tings are the latest to feel the pointy edges. You know it's gonna be bad when the review opens with "the Ting Tings are selling anti-establishment "fuck you"'s by the bottle." Comparisons with Tony Basil and a 3.8 review ensue.

Which makes for a good review, but leaves a bit of a whiff afterwards. For such a taste-making site, why has Pitchfork waited so long for a review? The album's been doing the rounds for a few months now, surely they should have had a review when the record bowed in the UK. Instead the credibility of the review suffers, because it looks like Pitchfork are giving this act an easy ride by delaying a review that could certainly have influenced their reception, but is now rendered inert.

Has Pitchfork decided to start playing the game? A little more backscratching to help out their video-channel...

Cliches that turn out to be true: Teenage Drivers

Just saw this on the Peoples Republic of Cork forums.



Apparently the driver was coming around the corner of the Grand Parade onto the South Mall and careened off the road.



Resulting in this kind of damage, but luckily no fatalities.



It's pretty depressing when you consider that there's plenty of good young drivers out there, and then the workers of the various solicitors offices, insurance agencies and banks that are on the South Mall head to work in the morning and see the aftermath of this. Why should they even think twice about the prices they charge young drivers when the justification they need literally lands on their doorsteps.