The Guardian
or ( If anything happens back home, friends will text you. They'll tell you who's been fired on The Apprentice )

• This week Charlie watched The Happening on a plane: "Mark Wahlberg gives by far the most appalling performance I've ever seen from a major actor in a mainstream movie. Really. Seek it out, it's a thing to behold."

The Guardian link or ( here )

The Guardian
or ( Have I missed out on a male-grooming memo? Am I a lone caveman in a world of trimmed bodies? )

· This week Charlie failed to buy a coconut (out of curiosity) for the second week running: "And I will continue to keep you all up to date on this situation, every week from now on, here in this end note section"

The Guardian link or
( 'In the street Palin is a Milf. Stand her next to McCain and she's a Barely Legal covergirl' )

The Guardian
or ( The story was a brilliant excuse to print Eva Herzigova's infamous Wonderbra ad yet again )

· This week Charlie considered buying a coconut out of sheer curiosity, but ended up not buying one after all: "And that was literally the most interesting thing I did (or rather, didn't do) all week."

The Guardian link or
( 'Josh is an 80s punk - he owns a synth and knows the chords to Gary Numan's Cars' )

The Guardian
or ( I've tried cultivating a passion for the arts but that didn't work )
This week Charlie read The Tiger That Isn't: "A startlingly interesting book about statistics. Yes, statistics. Honestly, it makes them interesting. It does. But don't take my miserable word for it, go and pick up a copy and read it your stinking self."

Mod note: Charlie is away this week, but I *LOVE* Hardeep Singh Kohli: he is me in male form - food obsessed, loves clothes, sarcastic (although obv far more Scottish and Sikh than I). Even though I don't need an excuse to post this here, he is officially standing in for Charlie so I have one anyway. Enjoy!

The Guardian
or ( Summerwear leaves me cold. I long for autumn so that I can start dressing like a dandy )

· This week Hardeep had an amazing lunch at Angela Hartnett's new Mayfair restaurant, Murano: "And I had a dismally overpriced and atrociously served dinner at the uber-hip Buddha Bar." He also cooked shepherd's pie on Richard and Judy: "I then spent a quarter of an hour eating a cheese and pickle sandwich, wondering if I was obsessed with food."

· Charlie Brooker is away

The Guardian link or
( 'George's robotic intolerance makes me splutter each time I see a close-up of his tortoisey face' )

The Guardian
or ( Thanks to China, we have a blueprint for 2012 - virtual athletes and exciting made-up CGI sports )

· This week Charlie watched the second episode of the startling Make Me a Christian on Channel 4: "The single most infuriating broadcast of the week. And it actually makes me pity the Christians because they're so badly misrepresented."

The Guardian link or ( 'If I were this doctor's patient, I'd run away screaming, sloshing brain goo as I went' )

The Guardian
or ( If I'd spent my first 18 years doing time in a cotton-wool cell, I'd snowboard off a cliff too )

· This week Charlie laughed at the glaring bum-awful rubbishness of Orange's current I Am Who I Am Because of Everyone advertising campaign, which somehow manages to be cloying, irritating, pretentious, irrelevant and baffling all at once: "If ever an advert deserved a punch in the face, it's this one."

The Guardian link or ( 'Reverend George scatters Christian joy like a muckspreader. Indiscriminately' )

The Guardian
or ( clicky )

· This week Charlie watched The Dark Knight and WALL-E: "Both times, I imagined a bomb was about to go off, as mentioned above. Although to be honest, it might have improved The Dark Knight, which was both wildly underwhelming and almost inaudible throughout. WALL-E was great, though; sort of like a Mr Men book crossed with the 70s sci-fi classic Silent Running."

The Guardian link or ( Here )

The Guardian
or
( clicky )

· This week Charlie watched the whole of Mad Men on DVD: "Highly recommended, although not if you watch it in a fever, like I did, then spend a sleepless night thinking you're stuck inside one of the scenes, with the dialogue looping round and round in your head, even after you open your eyes and kick the duvet off, groaning."

Little interest interview with the man 2 years ago found here.

Cue & Ehh? With Charlie Brooker
Monday, June 19, 2006

If you don’t know Charlie Brooker, you don’t know T.V. and lets face it… who doesn’t know T.V.? Brooker, presenter of ‘Screen Wipe’, creator of ‘Nathan Barley’, writer of the Guardian featured ‘Screen Burn’, infamous Grouch Potato, and the latest victim to suffer Cue & Ehh? harassment. Annoyed to the extent were he’d rather view a constant stream of ringtone ads than receive another correspondence from my good self. He finally couldn’t take it anymore and squeezed a few ‘me’ minutes in his already hectic schedule.

( Interview here )

The Guardian
or
( Why bother writing an article at all? Why not just scan in a few naked photos and have done with it? )
· This week Charlie somehow managed to get this column finished: "Despite mistyping every other word and having to break off every five minutes to lie on his bed clutching his brow, whimpering. He will almost certainly have died by the time you read it."

The Guardian link with 1618 comments at time of writing! (Weds afternoon)
or
( So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you're the Emperor of Pluto )