“badgers couldn’t compensate at twice the price“!!
(for the benefit of the non-aged this is a roxy music reference)[…]

Lore! That new Robbie Williams single may be the worst thing he’s ever released…
but combined with the new Beastie Boys single ‘Triple Trouble’ it has prompted me to think about the pros and cons of putting on a silly accent i[…]

Oh NO!: thread bemoaning the apparently imminent floppage of “Chewing Gum” by Annie. I agree that it’s the lack of airplay and supermarket stockage that’s done for the song. I can understand why Radio 1 and Asda have stayed aw[…]

FT Top 100 Films
30: BANANAS
There are people who say that they only like Woody Allen’s early funny movies. Good luck to them i say, though I sometimes goggle when taht actually means anything before Love And Death. For such people Bananas is t[…]

Some writers deploy an unanswerable style. Perry Anderson is one such: to read is to defer. Most of the time, anyway — but when the reader finds himself with the advantage, as I fear is the case here, the danger is that the whole edifice of aut[…]

Gronk board
Another story on the theme of strangers in travel pictures.
Once when I was a teenager, I was in the Navy cadets. We went on a 3-day trip staying on a minesweeper.
The minesweeper was dirty and gray coloured and smelt like a hospital. I[…]

The ‘enhanced’ CD of “Love Machine” is well worth your £2.99. You get a great sleeve, a version of the song which has actual bass on it unlike the MP3 doing the rounds, a Girls Aloud ‘game’ which won’t […]

One man saw it coming: The Society section of the Guardian is 25 years old, and has trawled its archives to celebrate. The second piece on this page, from 1982, (scroll down) is particularly interesting:
Some insights into the effects of modern commu[…]

Great British Crisps
Newish wheeze from Walkers – crisps purporting to replicate the taste of ‘great British dinners’, very suitable for pubs where drinkers are missing said great dinners. Though if my table ever holds a baked ham a[…]

Indie Chicken
(i’m such a bandwagon jumper (but also a fried chicken eater, so i couldn’t really turn down liz’s offer to join in))
#3 Favourite Chicken and Ribs, High Road, N15.
The problem with my journey back from the pub to my n[…]