Folded refers to things we liked this week, Creased refers to things we didn’t.
Folded:
- Glühwein (hot German wine that will whack your cold Christmassy head right off)
- Lego Mindstorms (if you don’t think this build-and-program-your-own-robot stuff looks brilliant, you need to grow up a bit)
- Late night Christmas shopping (best thing in the world. Knock the whole lot out in one evening with nobody else but bored seasonal staff to keep you company)
- He-Man DVDs (all that talk over the last couple of weeks has given us a taste for re-discovering our youth. Hence the Lego thing then, too)
- Hotdog magazine (may be no more, but it broke a lot of new ground with its cult retrospectives and some fine early cover art
Creased:
- Wrapping (not like Run DMC, which is still great fun down the pub on a Saturday night. No, Christmas present wrapping. Then there’s buying the stuff too. What a time of a year)
- Semi-clad ladies on the front of technology magazines (we don’t need to see cleavage to buy an iPod. Really, we are not going to ‘turn gay’ for ten minutes of looking at a page without a naked woman on it)
- U2 weekend on Channel 4 (fifteen minutes of U2 is long enough. A weekend full was just a suicidal idea)
- The Baz Luhrmann directed Chanel No. 5 advert (still in cinemas, still making you cringe more than that episode of The Office where Brent pretends to fire some poor girl and she starts crying)
- Advent calendars (how exciting, a piece of chocolate every day! You can’t just go and get that out of the fridge anytime you want, can you?! No, sir! It’s as if they only make these things for kids or something)
You goddamn kids better not forget to Vote Chris in the Empire Thunderdome, either.