This week on Namesakes, we pay tribute to a legend of the 80s: Patrick Duffy, aka Bobby Ewing from Dallas. Wait, you say, Patrick Duffy'...

We're back with another idiom and some pop songs which appropriated it. This post was supposed to run yesterday, but... See what I did t...

At the end of my last Cynical Self-Help post, I'd just stumbled onto Cognitive Defusion. This is something I'd seen mentioned in a n...

We had a couple of days away towards the end of last week, and stayed at The Whistlestop Cottage in Pickering, a cosy little getaway with a ...

  Step back, please. As we all head back into lockdown, it's time to social distance in song... 10. The Police - Don't Stand So Clos...

I blame Billy Joel for the fact that I can't ever think about Grace Kelly without also thinking about trouble in the Suez. Damn him...

No prizes for guessing that week 42 of our countdown would be illustrated by Level 42, though Walter did suggest Love Games as a less...

Well, I think I actually won a couple this week. There were some stinkers though, so congrats for getting the ones you did... As usual...

Ten songs about Richard... and not a dick in sight. Special mentions to messrs. Wagner, Strauss, Hawley, Thompson, Ashcroft, Carpenter...

Following on from my Fairground Top Tens, Adrian requested "a Ronan Keating-free Rollercoaster Top Ten" over on Facebook. Well, ...