(THUMBS UP) Last year’s blockbuster reads
With her finger just to the left of the pulse, deputy editor Phoebe has zipped through The Hunger Games trilogy of books like the proverbial hot butter knife. In her adrenaline-fuelled quest to keep up with culture, she’s also just invested in a DVD of groundbreaking new sci-fi epic Avatar.
(THUMBS DOWN) Blurred Lines
It might have been one of the hits of the summer, but that didn’t stop Robin Thicke’s dancefloor- filler from attracting the horrified ire of head of social media Sean Skinner. ‘My love of dancing around in my pants is well-documented,’ he reportedly tweeted, ‘but this song and its video are outrageous!’ Thicke was unavailable for comment, so we all just laughed at his silly name.
(THUMBS UP) The new football season
Journalist Jamie has spent all summer as frustrated as an unwalked border collie, but in the nick of time the summer’s football hiatus has come to an end. Now he’s wolfing down matches like they’re Pedigree Chum. It’s also possible that this metaphor has got a bit confused.
(THUMBS UP/DOWN) The Newsroom
The office is completely divided on Aaron Sorkin’s new series, which is set in a fast-paced media environment not unlike the Youthwork office. To some of us it’s a cheesy, over-written, childishly idealistic mess, while others in the team don’t like it at all.
(THUMBS DOWN) The death of this column
The anonymous author of this zeitgeist-baiting mini-column is said to be privately devastated at the decision to axe ‘Like / Unlike’ on the grounds of gross self-indulgence. Next month it will replaced by what the rest of the team call ‘actual news’. Those fools..
