As an English teacher, Huw realized that there was a dearth of what he called daft books for daft daft boys, and as a result wrote Scrambled (Firefly Press 2016, shortlisted for the Heart of Hawick Children's Literature Prize 2017).
"Maurice" is a cat; the rats are accidental beneficiaries of a magic spillage; together with a daft-looking human boy who plays the flute, they travel from town to town, working a Pied Piper-related con on the unsuspecting inhabitants.
Gascoigne, the "daft as a brush" boy who played with such spontaneity and wore his emotions so readily, captured public imagination, and presented a very different image of English football.
Naughty Boy, Passenger, Daft Punk and Olly Murs complete the top five.
Widespread uniform violations, terrible piercings, bad language, illicit smoking, girls wearing too much makeup, scowling boys with daft haircuts and furry top lips, corridor scuffles and the big buildup to the endof-year disco (or prom, if you must).
So far, the biggest story is the disappearance of two daft seven-year-old boys, which might seem irrelevant, but is all wrapped around the influx of troops into the town.
To prove that it's daft to think that boys "aren't capable of empathising with half the planet's population and irresponsible to market books in a way that suggests they're not meant to", they are asking boys – of all ages – to share photographic proof of female characters they like.
Music-sharing social network imeem struck a deal with EMI Music so that starting today its members can legally stream songs from Radiohead, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Interpol, Daft Punk, the Beastie Boys, and every other EMI artist.
Have you ever wondered what a Daft Punk and Beastie Boys mashup album might sound like?
Read McLaren's original article in Wired, and see how the late great's thoughts stack up to this Game Boy-made Daft Punk remix by Br1ght Pr1mate. .
