Fantastic stuff
 
“… according to a 1997 U.S. News and World Report study on who Americans believe are most likely to go to heaven, 52 percent said Bill Clinton, 60 percent thought Princess Diana, 65 percent chose Michael Jordan and […]

Into The Valley Of Tat
Continuing NYLPM’s warts-and-all look at the sordid easy-come easy-go life of that modern pariah, The Downloader.
ALCAZAR – “Dancefloor Docusoap”: In Europe Alcazar are treated as living gods and no wond[…]

Franz Ferdinand’s Car
The material remains of my childhood library rest in a dank loft in my parents’ garage. Whenever I visit, I rummage. My favourite book (as a kid) was a Pan paperback called Stranger than Science. Last month I found[…]

On the Buses
I went to the 50th Birthday Bash for the Routemaster at Finsbury Park on Sunday. I say ‘went’, but for the record, I popped in on my way to Tescos rather than planned my day around a visit to see the buses.

I like routemast[…]

Jings!
Without wishing to get all religious on y’all, the Great Scottish Caption Cock-up Scandal of 2004 takes on a theological bent. Apparently the folks being captioned ‘had a great week of celebrations and now the Southern Reporter has[…]

“These people need to get out more for the sake of their health and sanity”
(No, this isn’t D&D-related.)[…]

bcz the Julia Lennon Theory also applies to sport
(= there is no such thing as “backstage”)
(=not the same thing yet as “commentators now know how to integrate this bedroom dimension into their analysis”)[…]

WELCOME TO VREACKJ-t’DROGGA
A very brief trip to Belgium at the weekend saw members of the Publog drinking. Quelle-surprise as they say in certain parts of said country. However there does need to be some form of selection process to what you d[…]

RETURN OF THE BEAGLE
What is noice about this story is that the sturdily British Beagle Mars vehicle has to now admit that when it comes to space there is no room for parochialism. This time using some sort of skycrane they hope to drop the thing dow[…]

Amazing that with all the signs  I have seen that say NYC airports are “getting better”,     and being allocated thousands of dollars over the years for improvements, JFK and LaGuardia airports have part[…]