Ashley Andel went to an art high school, and reads lots of art and design books, plus he listens to music loads, and reads magazines, lots and lots of magazines, porn, tabloids, art rags, and everything else–he works in a toy store, one of thos[…]

Read all about it. Copies of this will be given away free for the first few paying Poptimism customers tomorrow.[…]

Politics And British Pop, 1979-1990: A CD
Even After Closing Time…

This is the first of two CDs following the threads of British political pop from 1979, the date of Thatcher?s first election victory, to 2005. It is flawed and incomplete, due […]

As if my life wasn’t hard enough, look at what I have to face every morning at Waterloo station. There are rows and rows and rows of the below, stretching into the void like… something that would stretch into a void… like ENDLESS CH[…]

Rob Shearman, the writer of the FANtastic (YMMV) “Dalek” episode of Who gave an online interview to fans shortly after the show went out. He had this to say on the subject of writing speeches for Christopher E
“Well, it was a worry […]

It seems to be a perfectly bogstand piece of fantasy fiction. Princes and their squires in a feudal everyworld. Sure there are odd hints about “the wall” but the hints that things may not be what they seem are laid on delicately until the[…]

the more i read about the litter of space dust in orbit round all these other so-called “planets”, the more i like our own homegrown giant lifeless blob — it is big and it is clever[…]

I wonder how newspaper editors (or publishers) prepare for the solemn duty of telling their readers which way to vote. Do they have a special election pen? These things are always written as if they’d been composed at a stout oak desk using the[…]

Take one Mystic River and replace its cast with that of Stand By Me. Make them watch Deliverance, but not Without A Paddle. Add a surprising shake of Swallows & Amazons, and top it off with a dash of My Two Dads.
That’s how you make a Mean[…]

So actually something which might mean something (floating voter = disillusioned voter after all). Glutter is a blog run by a friend* in Hong Kong which probably started, like many a blog as a way of talking about the minutiae of Yan’s day-to-d[…]