Screen Burn

This is the second post in my proposed series wherein I will berate you with information about things I like. You will then like them, and the world will become better.

Today's thing I like is Screen Burn. This is Charlie Brooker's weekly TV column from the Guardian. The great thing is that rather than reviewing the most worthy or interesting of the week's viewing, Brooker usually picks something awful and moans about it (and modern life in general) in ways that are often very, very funny.

For example, in a review of this year's Big Brother, he described Eugene as a "human pylon" and Saskia as a "burly, wrathful harridan with a face that could advertise war".

Screen Burn is so funny that I actually went as far as buying the book. That's right, they took 4 years' worth of columns and stuck them in a paperback. Doesn't deserve to work! Works! Here's a section where he's moaning about a Pop Idol-style reality TV programme called Making the Band from 2001:

The remaining `performers' are a bunch of hissing styrofoam meerkats desperately clawing over each other, craning their necks to suckle from the withered tit of fame; whining, mewling, preening, bitching -- they couldn't be more dislikeable if they strode around in Nazi regalia firing nailguns at ponies.

It made me laugh very hard. Even the index of the book is hilarious:

Oliver, Jamie: plugs Sainsbury's, 84, 168; turns air blue, 199-200; likened to Roy Hattersley, 285; is not a timelord, 307; can just about fuck off, 343.