Pete Hindle

I used to be seriously into music. Like, seriously spending all my money on CDs, reading about music, and playing instruments. I’ve mentioned a little just how staid my hometown is, but in middle school I was carting around a seriously boring instrument, the Bassoon (if you ever want to kill a kids interest in [...]

I got lost on my bike today, and ended up doing a fantastically long ride by accident. So instead of writing anything useful I thought I’d share this advert with you… It’s some sort of Russian translation device that allows Father Christmas to end up knocking boots and bumping uglies with people. Obviously, Father Christmas [...]

In a recent article for the Guardian, Charlie Brooker wrote this about the 13-year interregnum between Tory governments: “…an entire generation grew up regarding the Tory government as something like rain, or wasps, or stomach flu: an unavoidable, undying source of dismay. Until 1997, when they were eradicated overnight. It was as if scientists had [...]

Wondering how it’s going with my health and general welfare? Here’s the important news in a nutshell: I will not be given any money from the benefits agency and I will have to pay to go back to university. I got these two pieces of news today, when I seem to be suffering from one [...]

It is now officially summer. And with summer, there comes the dreaded “Countryside Invite”. That’s my term for those parties that are held in the middle of nowhere, but that you have to attend. It’s usually a not-too-interesting event – a relatives birthday, an engagement party, or some sort of art event – but it’s [...]

I lay in bed on Monday night, feeling pretty weird. I’d been back in Newcastle for four days, which is the longest I’d been away from home since I got sick. Unlike before, I’d taken it pretty easy, and restrained my impulse to schedule a dozen meetings for coffee every day.  In fact, by most [...]

Yesterday I took a trip into London by myself. I’d arranged to met up with Jock Mooney, who made this video: We spent a few hours catching up, and then I set off for Camden’s juggling shop, Oddballs. I’m not really into Camden. Maybe I’m too old, or maybe I’m just not sold on the [...]

Wednesday was a bad day for me. I’d been carrying around a broken tooth, and leapt out of bed to make an emergency dental appointment. I then fixed breakfast and was just starting to gingerly chew my toast when I got a call from the benefits agency who told me that I wouldn’t be getting [...]

Famous Irish playwright Samuel Beckett has a science-fiction namesake: Doctor Sam Beckett, who leaps through time to set right what went wrong. The above video is a joke about these two Samuel Becketts. In his later career, the playwright Beckett made some awesomely post-modern offbeat works, including a play that lasts for three seconds, and [...]

I get unstuck when people say that they think the new Doctor Who is good. The TV program itself is a fairly mediocre production, which lurches from set piece to set piece with some spectacularly bad character development. I think people are so attached to it because it’s one of the few programs that are [...]